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Weavers

Here are entered works on hand-loom weavers, including the medieval guild artisans. Works on modern textile workers in factories are entered under Textile workers.

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• Weavers -- Conduct of life
• Weavers -- England
• Weavers -- Fiction
• Weavers -- Great Britain
• Weavers -- India
• Weavers -- Juvenile fiction
• Weavers -- New York (State)
• Weavers -- Poetry
• Weavers -- United States
• Male weavers

• The miser of Raveloe... Dramatized from Eliot's "Silas Marner" by the class of 1909 Cairo (Ill.) high school. (Chicago, (c1911)) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silas Marner; a drama in four acts (Boston, W. H. Baker & co., 1915), by Franklin Sanborn Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Turn the carpet, or, The two weavers : a new song, in a dialogue between Dick and John. (London : Sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts) No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church Yard : And R. White, Piccadilly ; Bath : By S. Hazard : And by all Booksellers, newsmen and hawkers, in town and country, [1796]), by Hannah More, John Lee, and John Marshall, contrib. by Samuel Hazard and R White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Turn the carpet, or, The two weavers : a new song, in a dialogue between Dick and John. (London : Sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts) No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church Yard : And R. White, Piccadilly ; Bath : By S. Hazard : And by all Booksellers, newsmen and hawkers, in town and country, [1796]), by Hannah More, John Lee, and John Marshall, contrib. by Samuel Hazard and R White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second report from the Select Committee on Emigration from the United Kingdom, 1827 [electronic resource]. ([S.l. : s.n.], 1827), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Emigration from the United Kingdom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from Select committee on hand-loom weavers' petitions ; with the minutes of evidence, and index. ([London], [1834]), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Hand-loom Weavers' Petitions and John M. P. Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of the Evidence taken before the Select Committees on Hand-Loom Weavers' Petitions (1834-1835) ... Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 10 August 1835. ([London, 1835]), by Great Britain. Select Committees on Hand-Loom Weavers' Petitions (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'ouvrier en soie : monographie du tisseur lyonnais : étude historique, économique et sociale : 1ère ptie., réglementation du travail : le maître ouvrier en draps d'or, d'argent et de soie de l'établissement de la manufacture à Lyon (1466) au décret des 2-17 mars 1791 portant suppression de toutes les maîtrises et jurandes / (Lyon : E. Nicolas, 1899), by Justin Godart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ordinances of the Clothworkers' Company together with those of the ancient guilds or fraternities of the fullers & shearmen of the city of Lon don, transcribed from the originals in the possession of the Company. (London : [The Company], 1881), by England) Clothworkers' Company (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silas Marner [electronic resource] : the weaver of Raveloe / (Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and sons, [1861?]), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indiana coverlets and coverlet weavers, (Indianapolis, Printed for the Society, 1928), by Kate Rabb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les salaires dans l'industrie gantoise ... (Bruxelles, J. Bebègue et cie [etc.], 1901-04), by Office du travail de Belgique and Louis Valez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'industrie du tissage du lin dans les Flandres, ([Bruxelles, J. Lebègue et cie, 1900]), by Ernest Dubois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe, (New York, C. E. Merrill co., [c1908]), by George Eliot, ed. by Cornelia Beare (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Eliot's Silas Marner, (New York, H. Holt and company, 1911), by George Eliot and Ellen E. Garrigues, ed. by Ellen E. Garrigues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe, (Boston and Chicago, Allyn and Bacon, [c1898]), by George Eliot, ed. by W. Patterson Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposé de nos revendications, avec documents à l'appui. (Lyon, Imprimerie veuve L. Delaroche, 1899), by Association pour la défense des tisseurs lyonnais (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silas Marner. (Boston, 1899), by George Eliot, ed. by Edward Leeds Gulick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heirlooms from old looms : a catalogue of coverlets owned by the Colonial Coverlet Guild of America and its members / (Chicago : priv. print. ; Chicago ; Crawfordsville, Ind. : R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., 1955), by Colonial Coverlet Guild of America, ed. by Mildred Kercher Swygert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Commissioners. (London : W. Clowes and Sons, 1841), by Great Britain. Commission for Inquiring into the Condition of the Unemployed Hand-Loom Weavers in the United Kingdom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe, (Boston, New York [etc.] Allyn and Bacon, [c1928]), by George Eliot, ed. by John M. Avent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report from Select Committee on Hand-loom Weavers' Petitions : with the minutes of evidence and index: ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 1 July 1835. ([London : S.n., 1835]), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Hand-loom Weavers' Petitions and John Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual labour, versus machinery, exemplified in a speech on moving for a committee of parliamentary enquiry into the condition of half-a-million hand-loom weavers, in reference to the establishment of local guilds of trade; (London, Cochrane and M'Crone, 1834), by The Member for Lanarkshire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die lage der hausweber im Weilerthal, (Strassburg, K.J. Trübner, 1886), by Karl Kaerger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A State of the case, and a narrative of facts, relating to the late commotions, and rising of the weavers, in the county of Glocester [electronic resource] : as it regards a petition now presented to the Hon. House of Commons by the body of clothiers, and others, concerned in the clothing manufactury of Stroud-Water, and parts adjacent. (London : Printed for R. Griffiths, 1757), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons and England) Stroud (Gloucestershire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silas Marner / (New York : American Book Company, c1903), by George Eliot and Wilbur L. Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Euber die noth der leinen-arbeiter in Schlesien und die mittel ihr abzuhelfen ... (Berlin, Veit und comp., 1844), by Alexander Schneer (page images at HathiTrust)
• An analysis of the individual differences in the output of silk weavers ... (London, Printed and pub. by H. M. Stationery off., 1922), by P. M. Elton and Medical Research Council (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Glasgow weavers: being records of the Incorporation of Weavers. (Glasgow, Carson & Nicol, 1905), by Robert D. M'Ewan and Scotland) Incorporation of Weavers (Glasgow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The weavers in German literature / (Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht ; Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1926), by Solomon Liptzin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Silas Marner, (New York, D. Appleton and Company, [c1900]), by George Eliot, ed. by Richard Jones and J. Rose Colby (page images at HathiTrust)

• The weavers pocket-book, or, Weaving spiritualized in a discourse wherein men employed in that occupation are instructed how to raise heavenly meditations from the several parts of their work : to which also are added some few moral and spiritual observations relating both to that and other trades / by J.C. ([S.l. : s.n.], 1695), by John Collinges (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Corporation of weavers at London and Canterbury do humbly offer to the consideration of the Honourable House of Commons that this kingdom will sustain great evils and damage, if a bill now depending in this House should pass into a law, which bill enjoyns the wear of cloath or leather, and consequently restrains the wear of silks and stuffs mixed with wooll, silk and hair, viz. (London : Printed for John Wallis, ..., 1689) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Case of the English weavers and French merchants truly stated ([London : s.n., 1670]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the Right Honourable, and Right Worshipfull, the Knights and Burgesses of the Lower Howse of Parliament: the humble petition of the artizan cloth-workers of London: ([London : s.n., 1621?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Reasons humbly offered to the High Court of Parliament, by the Worsted-weavers in Norwich and Norfolk, why worsteads and other Norwich stuffs shoud not be subject either to subsedy or aulnage. ([Norwich? : s.n., 1663]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The vveavers request. Or, Their just complaint against the rude rabble that revile against the gentile mode now in fashion. To the tune of, Ladies of Lodon. This may be printed. R.P. ([London] : Printed for J[osiah]. Blare at the Looking-glass on London-Bridge, [between 1682-1700]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Walks in South Lancashire and on its Borders: With Letters, Descriptions, Narratives, and Observations, Current and Incidental (1844), by Samuel Bamford (HTML in the UK)

• The Weavers of London do humbly offer to the serious consideration of both houses of Parliament, that this kingdom of England will sustain great evils and damage by enjoyning the wear of woollen manufactures and leather ... by a law and so consequently restraining the wear of silks and hair stuffs manufactured in England, and that great benefit may ensue to the English nation, by prohibiting the use and wear of silks and stuffs foreign manufactur'd, appears by these following particulars ... ([London : s.n., 1689?]), by England) Worshipful Company of Weavers (London (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Silas Marner, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe (Mobile, AL: S. H. Goetzel, 1863), by George Eliot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bamford's Passages in the Life of a Radical, and Early Days (2 volumes; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893), by Samuel Bamford, ed. by Verax
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Formation in Nineteenth-Century Telugu-Speaking India (c2002), by Michael Katten (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• The weaver of Quellbrunn, or, The roll of cloth (Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1871), by Christian Gottlob Barth (page images at Florida)

• Paisley : a local sketch from Valentine's manual for 1863. (New-York : George F. Nesbitt & Co., printers, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Turn the Carpet, or, The Two Weavers: A New Song, in a Dialogue Between Dick and John (London: J. Marshall and R. White; Bath, UK: S. Hazard, 1796), by Hannah More, illust. by John Lee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • without illustration; HTML at ECCO TCP

• Along Navajo trails : recollections of a trader, 1898-1948 / (Logan : Utah State University Press, c2005), by Will Evans, Robert S. McPherson, and Susan E. Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• The little Indian weaver / (New York : Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, by arrangement with the A. Flanagan Co., c1928), by Madeline Brandeis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Navajo weavers: Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 371-392., by Washington Matthews (Gutenberg ebook)

• History, design, and craft in West African strip-woven cloth : papers presented at a symposium organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, February 18-19, 1988. (Washington, D.C. : The Museum, c1992), by National Museum of African Art (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

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