Episode 2: Pants for All
filed in Industrial Revelations on Dec.12, 2008
In episode 2 of Series 1, Mark Williams looks at the transformations that took place in the textile industry. Moving from one man cottage operations to factories crammed full of workers. Spinning Jenny In 1764 James Hargreaves from Lancaster invented the Spinning Jenny. Which took raw cotton and spun it into thread for weaving. Before [...]