...to work, but the supply ot yarn, always rather scanty, became quite inadequate. A weaver might have to walk three or four miles in a morning and call on [1742 spinning five or six spinners before he could collect sufficient yarn for weaving weft to serve...

...cotton goods in considerable quantities to Italy, Germany, and the North American colonies. It was then no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in the morning, and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect yarn enough to serve him for...

...with this disadvantage, very few could procure weft enough to keep themselves constantly employed. It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three...piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon or gown was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner, or spinster. This augmented demand for...

...be, since the time of iTour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain: London, 1727; iii, 144-146. the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon or gown was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner, or spinster. This augmented demand for...

...time was generally consumed in waiting for work. They went from house to house in search of yarn. " It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three...piece in a shorter time than usual a new ribbon or gown was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner." The difficulties arising from the shortage...

...cotton manufacture continued to increase until the spinners were unable to supply the weavers with weft. It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in the morning and call on five or six spinners before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder...

...with this disadvantage, very few could procure weft enough to keep themselves constantly employed. It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three...collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day. . . .3 The shortage of spinning hands was worst in harvests, when the families of farmer-craftsmen...

...their neighbors, and were obliged to pay more for the spinning than the price allowed by their masters. It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three...piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon or gown was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner. * It was natural, under these circumstances,...

...between four and eight spinners to keep one weaver supplied with yarn.4 Edward Baines noted in 1845 that it was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect (enough yarn) to serve him for the remainder...

...additional spinners were employed the weavers again found themselves hampered for want of weft, so that " it was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in the morning and call on four or five spinners before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder...