. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . 1722. Mrs. Millers sistersand the young women of the neighbourhood were instructed inthe art, enlarged twining mills were constructed, and a profitablebusiness established. The Bargarran thread became famous, and, as has happenedfrequently during the history of the thread trade, the honestproducer was imitated by a host of inferior makers, andBargarran had to fight for its rights. The following adver-tisement was widely circulated :— The Lady Bargarran and her daughters having a
. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . 1722. Mrs. Millers sistersand the young women of the neighbourhood were instructed inthe art, enlarged twining mills were constructed, and a profitablebusiness established. The Bargarran thread became famous, and, as has happenedfrequently during the history of the thread trade, the honestproducer was imitated by a host of inferior makers, andBargarran had to fight for its rights. The following adver-tisement was widely circulated :— The Lady Bargarran and her daughters having attained toa great perfection in making, whitening, and twisting of Sewing The PAiSLiiv Tiiread Threed, which is as cheap and white, and known by experienceto be much stronger than the Dutch, to prevent peoples beingimposed upon by other threed, which may be sold under thename of Bargarran Threed, the papers in which the LadyBargarran and her daughters at Bargarran, or Mrs. Miller, hereldest daughter (Christian, now a widow), at Johnstone, do putup their Threed, shall, for direction, have thereupon their Coat. BAUGAUnAX AlliMS. of Arms, azure, three covered cups, or. Those who want theSlid Threed, which is to be sold from fivepence to six shillingsper ounce, may write to the Lady Bargarran at Bargarran, orMrs. Miller at Johnstone, to the care of the Postmaster atGlasgow ; and may call for the same in Edinburgh, at JohnSeaton, merchant, his shop in the Parliament Close, where theywill be served either Wholesale or Retail ; and will be servedin the same manner at Glasgow, by William Selkirk, merchant,in The Bargarran Linen Thread 23 .Thus the linen thread manufacture began. Many of thethread makers who took the lead from Mrs. Miller, were quitehonourable competitors, and some of them were in Paisley andthe neiofhbourinor towns, and there the trade has continued tothe present time. In the Gentleman s Magazine for May, 1787, it is statedthat, in 1784, there were not les
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