. 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. ANCIENT EGYPTIANS SPINNING AND WEAVING (From an old print) THE STORY OF TEXTILES 61 EARLIEST RECORD OF ENGLISH FACTORY The first industry of which there is any record in Englandthat might be called a factory system was run by JohnWinchcombe, popularly known as Jack of famous did he become that he entertained Henry his first wife Catherine in his Newbury home. Winch-combe, who died in 1520, is described in Fullers Worthiesas the most consider
. 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. ANCIENT EGYPTIANS SPINNING AND WEAVING (From an old print) THE STORY OF TEXTILES 61 EARLIEST RECORD OF ENGLISH FACTORY The first industry of which there is any record in Englandthat might be called a factory system was run by JohnWinchcombe, popularly known as Jack of famous did he become that he entertained Henry his first wife Catherine in his Newbury home. Winch-combe, who died in 1520, is described in Fullers Worthiesas the most considerable clothier without fancy or fictionEngland ever beheld. His looms were his lands, whereofhe kept one hundred in his house, each managed by a manand a boy. So great was the fame of his factory that it was describedin the following poetic lines written while his firm was stilla household word in fashionable London:— Within one room, being large and long,There stood two hundred looms full strong;Two hundred men, the truth is so,Wrought in these looms all in a row;By every one a pretty boySat making quills with mickle i
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