Orders and regulations for the silk-manufacture ;
agreed to by the Dublin Society, on Thursday, the third day of March, 1796.
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printed by T. M. Bates, 89, Coombe,
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| Notes: | This book is humbly dedicated to Joshua Pim, Esq. by the working silk weavers of the City of Dublin. Signed, in the name of the working silk weavers of the City of Dublin, Nathaniel Watson, John Kennedy, Peter Leech. Inter-leaved copy. The Dublin Society came to the aid of the weavers by establishing a silk warehouse in Parliament Street in 1764, and a woollen warehouse in Castle Street in 1773, for the sale of home produced goods. For a time these measures were a help but the decline had set in. When war was declared against France and raw materials were difficult to obtain, the silk weavers suffered greatly. The rebellion of 1798 completely ruined them. They are described as descending from the Liberties to the lower parts of the city 'with a certain wildness of aspect, pallid faces and squalid persons.' Physical description: [vi], 111 pages ; 20 cm. more |
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