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English textiles.(Gainshorough Silk Weaving Co.)(Brief Article)
The bucolic setting of the town of Sudbury on the bonier between Suffolk and Essex Counties in England is well known through the works of two of the country's most venerated artists: John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough actually lived and worked in Sudhury and, when an entrepreneurial silk weaver named Reginald Metford Warner established a textile mill there in 1903, he named it after the artist. Warner's father, Metford Warner, was the proprietor of Jeffries and Company, which was well-known for the manufacture of wallpapers, some of them designed in collaboration with William Morris. The younger Warner, however, preferred weaving to printing, and as a young man studied weaving in Switzerland and was later apprenticed with the English Silk Weaving Company. He established his Gainshorough Silk Weaving Company with two secondhand looms, and in 1907 he enjoyed a visit by a member of the royal family, Princess Alexandra. Today the company is designated a Royal Warrant Holder to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England. Warner was not only an entrepreneur, but also a designer and an engineer. He worked on the development of the water-jet loom and collected samples of silks from European weavers, particularly those in France, where silk weaving was in decline. These samples provide a rich archive of ...
- Unemployed youth to get training in silk weaving.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. December 19, 2007 700+ words
Unemployed youth to get training in silk weaving Puducherry, Dec 19 (PTI) -- The...scheme to train unemployed youth in silk weaving. A communication of the Department...a year. The services of the reputed silk weaving masters or silk weaving societies who...
- TAIWAN TO HAVE A SILK WEAVING INDUSTRIAL ZONE.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News December 10, 2003 700+ words
...bian said Monday that the construction of Taiwan's first silk weaving industrial zone will be completed in June, 2004 at Touliou...Filament Weaving Industrial Association, Chen said Taiwan's silk weaving industry is powerful and competitive in the world market...
- SUDAN: COMPLETION OF PREPARATIONS FOR OPENING A SILK WEAVING FACTORY.(Brief...
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database September 29, 2003 700+ words
...published in late August 2003 by the Blue Nile District Administration announcing completion on work for the project to build a silk weaving factory. The paper quoted Governor of the Blue Nile District, Eng. Abdullah Othman al-Haj, who said that the natural...
- China mill adds variety of silks. (Jiaxing Silk Reel and Silk Weaving Works)
- Magazine article from: WWD Ehrlich, Paul Charles November 10, 1987 700+ words
CHINA MILL ADDS VARIETY OF SILKS The Jiaxing Silk Reel and Silk Weaving Works, one of the largest silk producers in China, began producing in September silk fabrics with checked, jacquard and ribbed...
- Silk Weaving: A Tradition Modified
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Richard M. Weintraub March 27, 1989 700+ words
The loom's steady click filled the room as the weaver's deft hands pushed a shuttle between threads hanging from a machine that looked to be from medieval times. Connected to the stick was a fine thread, almost invisible. With a flick of his wrist and a push of the foot pedal, the weaver added it
- Narrow Silk Weaving.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Keystone View Company--Copyright Holder January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Italy's Jermi, China launch silk weaving, finishing plant.
- Magazine article from: Daily News Record Ehrlich, Paul Charles January 23, 1986 700+ words
HONG KONG (FNS) -- Jermi SpA, a victim of Italy's hard-hit silk fabric industry, has begun operations at a $15 million joint-venture weaving and finishing complex on the Yellow River in Shandong Province, China. The venture consists of six weaving mills with 135 Swiss and Italian looms, plus a
- LETTERS: YOUR VIEWS.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) February 4, 2000 700+ words
...Avenue, Whoberley. Let's have a silk weaving museum not another cafebar IT NOW appears...off Trinity Street, the last of the silk weaving industry buildings, is to be considered...bar. Why not a museum to the late silk weaving industry for which it was designed...
