Download or read book A History of the Straw Hat Industry written by John G. Dony and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the Straw Hat Industry written by John G. Dony and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hat Industry of Luton and its Buildings written by Katie Carmichael and published by Historic England. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although perhaps best known today as the home of Vauxhall Motors, Luton's industrial roots run much deeper. Long before it became associated with motor cars, Luton was the centre of ladies' hat production in this country - a success founded upon the earlier regional industry of straw-plaiting. Many surrounding towns and villages fed into the industry and helped to make the region globally renowned. At its peak in the 1930s, the region was producing as many as 70 million hats in a single year; however, it entered a rapid decline following the Second World War from which it never recovered. This has left Luton, Dunstable and a number of other local towns with a challenging inheritance of neglected and decaying fragments of a once vital industry. This book is intended to be an introduction and guide to the area's historical depth and to its distinctive and varied character, seeking to explain the development of the region as the centre of the hatting industry in the south and exploring the lives of the people working there during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The historic links between the surviving building stock and the hatting industry are assessed and the book highlights the significance of the surviving fabric and the potential of the historic environment within future conservation and regeneration plans.

Download or read book Straw Plaiting written by Veronica Main and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A must-have for anyone interested in working with straw and an astonishing contribution to the preservation of this endangered craft.' Jay Blades MBE, Co-Chair of Heritage Crafts An engaging makers' guide to the history and craft of straw plaiting, brimming with helpful step-by-step diagrams. Straw plaiting has been used to make accessories from hats and baskets to handbags, trimmings and homewares around the world for centuries. Once employing tens of thousands of people in the UK alone, the craft is now listed as Critically Endangered on Heritage Crafts' Red List. This book aims to change that, drawing on more than 50 previously unpublished patterns and techniques from around the world that will help you to unlock the history and preserve the skills of straw plaiting. For each pattern, follow the step-by-step diagrams and instructions and discover how they were developed whilst learning about materials, tools and preparation. Once familiar with the plaiting techniques – using straw as well as other materials – you will be able to develop your own skills, possibly blending in recycled materials, which are increasingly being used to produce beautiful and unique pieces.

Download or read book The Hat Industry of Luton and Its Buildings written by Katie Carmichael and published by Historic England. This book was released on 2013 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction and guide to Luton's hatting industry and to the distinctive and varied character of its buildings.

Download or read book A Complete Dictionary of Dry Goods and History of Silk Cotton Linen Wool and Other Fibrous Substances written by George S. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Puerto Rico Men s Straw Hat Industry February 1941 written by United States. Wage and Hour Division and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hat Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Men s wear semi monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women s Hats Headdresses and Hairstyles written by Georgine de Courtais and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 453 illustrations provide authentic record of over 1,300 years of changing hairstyles and headwear in England: everything from wimples and crespines worn in Anglo-Saxon times to early-Victorian bonnets and pillboxes.

Download or read book Swiss Straw Work written by Veronica Main and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Industrial Archaeology and Industrial History of South eastern England written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Children of the Labouring Poor written by Eileen Wallace and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the contributions children made towards their families' livelihoods in hard times, this detailed record catalogs the high price children had to pay--sacrificing their health and education--while employed in agriculture, chimney sweeping, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, papermaking, and brick making in 19th-century Hertfordshire, England. This enlightening history demonstrates that the poor conditions in factories and mills, as well as in household chimneys, contributed to the many diseases and injuries that afflicted these young laborers. While there are examples of innovative manufacturers such as John Dickinson, who built respectable housing for his employees, the overall picture that emerges during this period is one in which Hertfordshire's children arduously struggled to make ends meet.

Download or read book The Civil Political Professional and Ecclesiastical History and Commercial and Industrial Record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn N Y from 1683 to 1884 written by Henry Reed Stiles and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin written by Massachusetts. Division of Minimum Wage and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Victorian School Manager written by Peter Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Graham Balfour, in a lecture delivered in February 1921, first drew attention to the growing importance of the elementary school manager in the system of educational administration during the period with which this study is concerned: “Local administrators of education, other than trustees a hundred years ago, there were none. Indeed it is very curious how imperceptibly that important figure of the latter half of the nineteenth century, the School Manager, steals into existence.

Download or read book Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth century England written by Nicola Verdon and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an under-researched issue. Verdon directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The involvement of women in the rural labour market as farm servants, as day labourers in agriculture, and as domestic workers, are all examined using a wide range of printed and unpublished sources from across England. The roles village women performed in the informal rural economy (household labour, gathering resources and exploiting systems of barterand exchange) are also assessed. Changes in women's economic opportunities are explored, alongside the implications of region, age, marital status, number of children in the family and local custom; women's economic contribution to the rural labouring household is established as a critical part of family subsistence, despite criticism of such work and the rise in male wages after 1850. NICOLA VERDON is a Research Fellow in the Rural History Centre, University of Reading.