Weaving

www.bbc.co.uk/history/
british/victorians/
launch_gms_cotton_millionaire.shtml

Interactive

Who Wants to be a Cotton Millionaire game.

You are a business man putting money into a cotton weaving factory. Decide about your location, power and workers. Will you make millions?

www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
launch_ani_spinning_mill.shtml

Interactive

Animation of a spinning mill.

You will start at the furnace. Go to the flywheel and then to the mill.

http://houseoftartan.co.uk/
interactive/weaver/index.html

Interactive

Weave your own tartan.

Choose your colours, a stripe sequence and the number of threads for each.

www.theglasgowstory.com/
searchq.php?qsearch=weaving&iore=1

Historic photographs of weaving.

Look at pictures of handlooms and Jacquard looms. Why did the powerloom replace the work of the handloom weavers?

www.irishorigins.com/help/resarticle-so-weaving.htm

Weaving and the Textile industry in Scotland.

How were cotton, wool, linen and silk produced in Scotland?

www.newlanark.org./attractions.shtml

New Lanark was set up in 1780s as a manufacturing village just outside Lanark. Most of the inhabitants worked in the cotton spinning factories there.

Go to Visitor Centre then Kids then The Mill Workers.

What do you think of the timetable for the pauper apprentice?

What was Annie McLeod’s work?

www.theglasgowstory.com/
storyc.php?PHPSESSID=
c3873dcc102be2452ef4f7a9893ecd7f

The Glasgow Story

Industrial Revolution: 1770s to 1830s.

Go to Industry and Commerce.

How did the production of textiles change in Glasgow ?

http://memorialhall.mass.edu/
activities/media.jsp?itemid=15517&img=0&hi=1

A demonstration of spinning wool.

Watch the movie.

www.glasgowhistory.co.uk/
Books/EastGlasgowDictionary/
EastGlasgowFrame.htm

The History of Weaving and the Weaver’s strike of 1787.

Go to Weavers’ Strike 1787 on left hand menu.

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