Few people realise that the splendid mills seen in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset and Devon are the legacy of the cloth industry, for which this area was well known from the Middle Ages onwards.Woollen cloth, silk, linen, lace, rope and sailcloth were made in south-west England and an introductory chapter looks at how these fabrics were produced to meet changing markets. Most of the book is devoted to the buildings themselves, ranging from the splendid Tuckers Hall in Exeter through clothiers' houses and rural ...
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Few people realise that the splendid mills seen in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset and Devon are the legacy of the cloth industry, for which this area was well known from the Middle Ages onwards.Woollen cloth, silk, linen, lace, rope and sailcloth were made in south-west England and an introductory chapter looks at how these fabrics were produced to meet changing markets. Most of the book is devoted to the buildings themselves, ranging from the splendid Tuckers Hall in Exeter through clothiers' houses and rural fulling and spinning mills to the homes of the workforce, many of which were also workplaces for handloom weavers well into the nineteenth century.
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First edition (softcover). 8vo (25cm by 17cm), 160pp. 32 colour plates, 68 text figures. Original laminated card wrappers. Bookplate to the inside of the front cover, else this book is in very good condition. ISBN 0752431331.
