Weaving Delaine
Posted: 10 Jul 2023, 11:14
Hi, you all,
How are you?
My relatives[?] were Delainer hand loom weavers, having a son who in 1851 was a cotton powerloom weaver. I have read on this website that of the people who became powerloom weavers some had left handweaving and those people tended to be cotton weavers, leaving the last to convert to be Delainer weavers. This comment from this website suggests to me that Delainer weavers were not cotton weavers. If not cotton, then were Delainer weavers weavers of wool? And de laine in French would mean of wool. Would some wool weavers of north Yorkshire come from France or did at least the term delaine come from France? And would that term have come from France when French Huguenots fled France because of religious persecution, the way they fled France for Ireland? And given that French terms entered the English language at a higher level and the British probably had a term for woolen weaver--it being woolen weaver--did delaine mean something more precise than just weaver or wool, like weaver of wool shawls?
Not so interested in the French, my main question would be were the parents of William Harrison of Barnoldswick delainer weavers and what did that mean? How could the father Phillip Harrison junior (1807 Swinden near Gisburn to 1867 Skipton, married Martha Cooper) have been both a wool (or whatever) weaver and a butcher (1861 at Skipton) at the same time? The 1851 Census shows that son William Harrison (born in 1807) was a cotton power loom weaver whereas both parents were Delainer hand loom weavers. Thank you.
Polly LYNN
How are you?
My relatives[?] were Delainer hand loom weavers, having a son who in 1851 was a cotton powerloom weaver. I have read on this website that of the people who became powerloom weavers some had left handweaving and those people tended to be cotton weavers, leaving the last to convert to be Delainer weavers. This comment from this website suggests to me that Delainer weavers were not cotton weavers. If not cotton, then were Delainer weavers weavers of wool? And de laine in French would mean of wool. Would some wool weavers of north Yorkshire come from France or did at least the term delaine come from France? And would that term have come from France when French Huguenots fled France because of religious persecution, the way they fled France for Ireland? And given that French terms entered the English language at a higher level and the British probably had a term for woolen weaver--it being woolen weaver--did delaine mean something more precise than just weaver or wool, like weaver of wool shawls?
Not so interested in the French, my main question would be were the parents of William Harrison of Barnoldswick delainer weavers and what did that mean? How could the father Phillip Harrison junior (1807 Swinden near Gisburn to 1867 Skipton, married Martha Cooper) have been both a wool (or whatever) weaver and a butcher (1861 at Skipton) at the same time? The 1851 Census shows that son William Harrison (born in 1807) was a cotton power loom weaver whereas both parents were Delainer hand loom weavers. Thank you.
Polly LYNN