Weaving and Spinning Mills

[derekwg]

List of Occupations associated with Weaving and Spinning Mills

(will add more info later , eg links)

Bailer , Bobbin Carrier , Billy Piecer , Bobbin Maker , Bobbin Turner , Bleacher , Carpet Weaver , Cotton Spinner , Cotton Weaver , Cotton Bailer , Clothier , Carder , Card Maker , Comber , Cropper , Doubler , Dyer , Doffer , Drawer , Dresser ,  Fettler , Filler , Finisher , Flax Dresser , Flax Spinner/Weaver , Frame Spinner , Factory Hand/Operative  , Frame Engineer , Fustian Weaver , Mill Hand , Mill Labourer  , Mill Boy/Girl ,  Hand Loom Weaver , Piecer/Piecner  , Power Loom Weaver/Spinner  , Power Loom Engineer ,  Presser , Reeler , Rover , Shalloon Weaver , Shuttle Maker , Shearer , Slubber , Spinner ,  Spooler , Stuff Maker  , Shoddy Weaver , Sorter , Spindle Maker , Small Wares Weaver , Teaser , Tenter , Throstle Spinner , Twister , Warper , Warp twister , Winder , Webster , Weaver , Worsted Weaver , Woollen Weaver ,

 Cloth Dresser.

[Yorky Lad]

I left school in 1961 and went straight into the mill and was employed alongside the loom tuner as a Chainmaker. The looms in use at the time were Dobcross which could weave with a maximum of 16 heald frames and with a total of eight shuttle boxes. My mother also worked in the mill as a pattern weaver and her loom was equipped as a Jacquard that weaved "Made in England" down the side selvages.

[bykerlads]

Talking of the name and place of manufacture being woven into the selvedge- I was in Paris recently and looking in the window of a very very high class tailors/mens outfitters near the Opera. Extremely expensive gents clothes in the popular "style anglais".
 The lengths of cloth in the window were edged with the information that the suiting material was made in Huddersfield. Whilst the major wool worsted manufacture in West Yorkshire  died out a while ago, those mills which remain cater for the very top of the market. Something to be proud of, I feel.

[Yorky Lad]

Hi Meezer

You refer to your father being a "Pin Setter" within the textile industry, and you feel that it could have some connection with a Loom.
Whilst I worked in the mill I knew of Pin Setters but they worked in the Tenter room replacing the Tenter plates on the machines that raised the surface of the material, however there were "Dollies" on the Looms that could in some districts been could Pins. The Warp threads would pass though the Dolly before entering the Heald wire if a warp thread were to brake then the Dolly would drop and the loom would stop.
Hope this helps.

[sallyyorks]

List of Occupations associated with Weaving and Spinning Mills

(will add more info later , eg links)

Bailer , Bobbin Carrier , Billy Piecer , Bobbin Maker , Bobbin Turner , Bleacher , Carpet Weaver , Cotton Spinner , Cotton Weaver , Cotton Bailer , Clothier , Carder , Card Maker , Comber , Cropper , Doubler , Dyer , Doffer , Drawer , Dresser ,  Fettler , Filler , Finisher , Flax Dresser , Flax Spinner/Weaver , Frame Spinner , Factory Hand/Operative  , Frame Engineer , Fustian Weaver , Mill Hand , Mill Labourer  , Mill Boy/Girl ,  Hand Loom Weaver , Piecer/Piecner  , Power Loom Weaver/Spinner  , Power Loom Engineer ,  Presser , Reeler , Rover , Shalloon Weaver , Shuttle Maker , Shearer , Slubber , Spinner ,  Spooler , Stuff Maker  , Shoddy Weaver , Sorter , Spindle Maker , Small Wares Weaver , Teaser , Tenter , Throstle Spinner , Twister , Warper , Warp twister , Winder , Webster , Weaver , Worsted Weaver , Woollen Weaver ,

Cotton grinder
Can't believe i missed that one as it's my own grt x3 grandads occupation in Manchester ! ! ! hahaha , how embarrassing .
Great info everyone , ta for input :)

[sallyyorks]

Few more  links

Photographs of the United Kingdoms Textile Mills
http://uktextilemills.co.uk

Photographs taken inside West Yorkshire's by "Urbexer" Nicola Miller
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262097/Photographer-enters-decaying-West-Yorkshire-mills-helped-make-county-wool-capital-world.html

Textile Mills in Cheshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_textile_mills_in_Cheshire

Manchester's Cotton Mills
http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/history/victorian/mills.html

Cotton Times - Understand the Cotton Industrial Revolution
http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/index.html

The Yorkshire Rebellion of 1820 and what Caused it?
http://www.zyworld.com/albionmagazineonline/yorkshire_rebellion.htm

Textile Manufacture during the Industrial Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_manufacture_during_the_Industrial_Revolution

Piecers in the Textile Industry
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRpiecers.htm

Child Labour in Kendal's Mills
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRdodd.htm




 

[James1950]

no mention in the list of the Beamers 

[sallyyorks]

no mention in the list of the Beamers  :)

Do tell ?  , "spin us the yarn "  :)

[James1950]

Well since you asked. 

The Beam was a huge bobbin. The Cotton Beamer worked in the winding room. He would take cones of thread by the hundred and organised them to make the warp ready for weaving.

Not to be confused with the Beam Twister who worked in the weaving shed or the Beam Warper who worked in the winding room.

My great great grandfather was a Beamer who later became a Tackler ( not to be confused with a fettler)

Hope that makes it clearer