Silk history "The Political Register reported that, during the Calico Crisis three thousand weavers and their families “Crowded the passages to the House of Lords of whom they demanded Justice as they pass’d by." Silk should be favoured over calicos, it was argued, because printing on cotton employed fewer people than the various stages of throwing, dyeing and weaving silk. Calico printing employed only 800 people, compared to the 16,000 weaving looms estimated in London and

Silk history "Silk had been woven in England since the late Middle Ages and in London from at least 1551. The industry expanded...

Anna Maria Garthwaite ( 1690–1763) moved to Spitalfields in London during the 1720's. She is perhaps the best known individual silk...