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96 woman's wobk in the world's clothing.
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(Continued.) - Ii. The Spinning Wheel.
garments nation may as garments be found and in the therefore fact that a mal men e servant purchased doubtless their
had his livery-nioney apportioned , accordingly , whereas it was a matter of course that females should perform themselves the
their greater raiment part of and the were manipulation therefore required allowed in merel the production what miht of y g
suffice to obtain , raw material . The same author goes on to leng remark apparel th the th that an , their coat iC _ISTow of masters the -a-days finest were serving wont cloth -nien to that do go , " may and more be describes gotten costly for in at
money attire we ; hosen fear of the the gentleman finest , & ' c s . " gentleman Pranked must out in have such brave sadly
looked There down is one upon material the hous emp ek loyed eeper for in her clothing homespun , the earl . y history
That of which laborious , in this anti country quarian , , is Strutt speciall , confesses y connected that with "it is our impos sex - .
_sible to ascertain" when the manufacture of silk was first it introduced it into to Eng have land been , but exclusivel in the earliest in the notices hands we of have a bod of y y
of , females appears called " silk-women . " As befitted the costliness to and have elegance been generall of the material of a better , those class who of wroug society ht than therein the seem wool
or flax workersand y they appear to have long enjoyed the undisturbed exercise , of the craftwhich consisted chiefly in the
fabrication of ribbonslacesand , such-like narrow wares . But towards the middle of the , fifteenth , century the Italian merchants
riall began y with to import their similar business goods , and so they largel according y as to l interfere y presented mate a -
memorial of the silk to women Henry and the Sixth throwster which s of was the entitled crafts , and " The occupation petition
been of silk crafts -work of within women the within city the of sam London e city , of which time be that and no have man
remembereth the contrary . " After stating that , "by this sam and business e many and ' man put young y into reputable women a of kep families living t from with hav idleness e credit _Tbeen by well and learning many supported hav the e ,
way , emp thereby loymen grown t of women to great in this worshi handicraft p "—thus tended showing rather that to rais the e
than to lower their position in society—they complain that , ( _" further now such asserting articles thoug are h broug scarc ht el into qualified the land to jud ready impartiall wrought y , "
that the imports , were of very bad y quality too ) ge " to the great , detriment and utter destruction of the said craftswhich is like
to cause great idleness among the young gentlewomen , and other apprentices to the same . " They therefore pray " that the
wroug Lombards ht silk and into other the strangers realm , contrary may be to hindered custom from and to importing the ruin
96 Woman's Wobk In The World's Clothing.
96 woman ' s wobk in the world ' s clothing .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 96, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/24/
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