Occupations » Textiles

Background history of Linen from the flax in the field to finished linen cloth

From the Craigavon Historical Society.

British History Online - Industries: Silk-weaving

FamilySearch Wiki - England Textile Occupations Silk, Cotton, Weaving (National Institute)

History of Irish Linen

How War Revolutionized Ireland’s Linen Industry | JSTOR Daily

Industries of Scotland - Linen and Jute Manufacturers

JSTOR - Contract Work in the Paterson, N.J., Silk Industry

Journal article describing the silk industry in Paterson, New Jersey

JSTOR - The English Silk Industry in the Eighteenth Century

Our Warwickshire - Former Silk Ribbon-Weaving Factory In Coventry

Passaic County Historical Society - Immigrants at the Paterson Silk Mills

Article from the society's newsletter discussing immigrants from Europe who worked in Paterson's silk mills

Project Gutenberg's Theory Of Silk Weaving, by Arnold Wolfensberger

Article describing the different kinds of weaves used to make silk

Silk Ribbon Weaving in Coventry

A brief history.

Social Welfare History Project - Paterson Silk Strike, 1913

Warwickshire Industrial Archaeology Society - Silk Ribbon Industry

Weavers and freemen in Coventry, 1820-1861 : social and political traditionalism in an early Victorian town

A PhD thesis by Peter Searby at University of Warwick.