The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . ck a week. As describedin 1789 in the Gazette of the United States, The manu-facturing house for duck in Boston is pleasantly situatedin the south west part of the town. The building is 180feet long, two stories high. The upper part is improved bythe spinners of chains or warp of the duck. Sixteen youngwomen and as many girls under the direction of a steadymatron are here employed. In the lower part there aretwenty-eight looms which can turn out two pieces of du
The story of textiles; a bird's-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed . ck a week. As describedin 1789 in the Gazette of the United States, The manu-facturing house for duck in Boston is pleasantly situatedin the south west part of the town. The building is 180feet long, two stories high. The upper part is improved bythe spinners of chains or warp of the duck. Sixteen youngwomen and as many girls under the direction of a steadymatron are here employed. In the lower part there aretwenty-eight looms which can turn out two pieces of duckof forty yards each per week. A high degree of perfection was attained, and the businesswas very prosperous until about 1795, when the bountywas withdrawn and the business gradually died. In themean time, however, duck had begun to be manufacturedin Haverhill, Springfield, and in New Hampshire and Con-necticut. About the same time various other attempts at duckmanufacturing were made elsewhere, one of them beingin Worcester, where a factory was erected in 1789, and onApril 30, 1789, the first piece of corduroy was turned THE STORY OF TEXTILES 161 Fustians, ribs, and corduroys were subsequently offeredfor sale. The enterprise, however, was not a success, andwithin a few years after it started passed out of attempts were made at Colchester, Conn., at Exeter,, at Haverhill, Mass., and also at Springfield, Salem, andStratford. COMMENCEMENT OF THE COTTON INDUSTRY IN RHODE ISLAND Cotton manufacturing began in Rhode Island in 1788,and was due to the efforts of Daniel Anthony, AndrewDexter, and Lewis Peck, of Providence, who formed apartnership to manufacture Home Spun Cloth. Itwas the original purpose to spin by hand and make linenjeans with linen warp and cotton filling, but, learning ofthe Bridgewater experiments, Anthony and John Reynolds,of East Greenwich, who had begun the making of woolens,visited Bridgewater and made a sketch of the w
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