New Mills in Bowden Middlecale: Domestic Textiles in the Rural Economy before the Industrial Revolution and the Change to Factory Cotton

Abstract

The year 1996 is being celebrated as Visual Arts Year in the North of England. From 21 September 1996, an Exhibition ‘People and Patterns’ at The John and Josephine Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, will describe the local carpet industry, which supplied the London and provincial trade for many years during the nineteenth century. The Exhibition closes on 5 January 1997