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The manufacture of silk at Spitalfields in London was also a traditional Huguenot business, but from the late 1720s silk design was dominated by the surprising figure of Anna Maria Garthwaite, a parson's daughter from Lincolnshire who emerged at the age of 40 as a designer of largely floral patterns in Rococo styles.
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At Economy, on special occasions and Sundays, women wore silk dresses using fabric of their own manufacture.
In order to protect the manufacture of silk products, Justinian granted a monopoly to the imperial factories in 541.
Once the home of a thriving lobster industry, Tavolara now attracts divers who come to view the coral, sponges, sea anemones, bottlenose dolphins, and even a few specimens of Pinna nobilis, the rare giant clam whose byssus fibers were formerly used in the manufacture of sea silk for royal garments.
* The manufacture of cultured silk becomes popular from Korea to Japan.
The manufacture of silk and crepe revived the town's fortunes somewhat, and Shepton's mills manufactured the silk used in Queen Victoria's wedding dress.
In addition techniques of silk manufacture were imported, enhancing the Kent cloth industry.
Coal mining and the manufacture of silk were the chief industries in the early years of its existence.
The village is beautifully seated in the valley of the river Colne ; the inhabitants are chiefly employed in the woollen manufacture, in the spinning of cotton and silk, and in silk-weaving "
“ The school of St Peter, at Lyons was founded about 1750 for the instruction of draftsmen employed in preparing patterns for the silk manufacture.
It has been much more successful than the Paris school and having been disorganized by the revolution, was restored by Napoleon and differently constituted, being then erected into an Academy of Fine Art: to which the study of design for silk manufacture was merely attached as a subordinate branch.
He was with MGM studios when he retired from film in 1940 and invested in the manufacture of silk stockings, a lucrative business at a time when Canadian and British women could not get them due to the rationing brought on by the Second World War.
The introduction of new woods to the manufacture of fly rods, first greenheart and then bamboo, made it possible to cast flies into the wind on silk lines.
The other chief sources of the island's wealth lay in its wines and, in later days, in its silk manufacture.
After it leaves the dam at Tittesworth, it flows into the ancient market town of Leek, where it was used until quite recently to aid the manufacture of dyes that were used in the town's textile and silk industries.
By 1822 labour rates were so above market labour rates, that much of the employment in silk manufacture had moved to the country.
The Relief Society sent women to medical school, trained nurses, opened the Deseret Hospital, operated cooperative stores, promoted silk manufacture, saved wheat, and built granaries.
The Relief Society sent women to medical school, trained nurses, opened the Deseret Hospital, operated cooperative stores, promoted silk manufacture, saved wheat, and built granaries.
A watermill used for grinding corn was converted and used at various times in the 19th century for the manufacture of silk, worsted and carpet-weaving, followed by its conversion to a steam mill to make chicory, mustard, animal foodstuffs and flour.
The manufacture of silk gauze superseded both trades and, from 1777 to 1789, the amount of looms in the town producing the gauze peaked at approximately 170.
By the 19th century Varaždin had been completely rebuilt and expanded, with flourishing crafts and trade, and later the manufacture of silk and bricks.
Ancient Chinese-Khotanese relations were so close that the oasis emerged as one of the earliest centres of silk manufacture outside China.
Crimea was also renowned for manufacture of silk and honey.
On searching Zahedi's bedroom Maclean found " a collection of automatic weapons of German manufacture, a good deal of silk underwear, some opium, an illustrated register of the prostitutes of Isfahan ," and correspondence from a local German agent.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, as elsewhere in Italy, silk was an important industry, and a silk manufacture was built in town in 1695: in 1835, however, the town's textile history came round full circle when the same building was put to use as a wool factory with the introduction of mechanical looms, putting Biella at the forefront of modern improvements in the industry.
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Nobel and his parents returned to Sweden from Russia and Nobel devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerine ( discovered in 1847 by Ascanio Sobrero, one of his fellow students under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin ).
Adam Smith discusses the division of labour in the manufacture of pins at length in his book The Wealth of Nations ( published in 1776 ).
On 4 March 2008, in announcing a partnership with Magna Steyr to outsource manufacture of over 2, 000 cars annually at Graz, Austria, the company stated " The continuing growth and success of the company is based upon Gaydon as the focal point and heart of the business, with the design and engineering of all Aston Martin products continuing to be carried out there.
The thermosetting phenolic resin was at one point considered for the manufacture of coins, due to a shortage of traditional material ; in 1943, Bakelite and other non-metal materials were tested for usage for the one cent coin in the US before the Mint settled on zinc-coated steel.
Estimates are that 90 % of all commercially produced chemical products involve catalysts at some stage in the process of their manufacture.
PECVD processing allows deposition at lower temperatures, which is often critical in the manufacture of semiconductors.
Cement manufacture causes environmental impacts at all stages of the process.
Riveted mail offers significantly better protection ability as well as historical accuracy than mail constructed with butted links, at the same time riveted mail can be more labour intensive and expensive to manufacture.
Those of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople, of the 8th and 9th century, are wrought in bronze, and the west doors of the cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle ( 9th century ), of similar manufacture, were probably brought from Constantinople, as also some of those in St. Marks, Venice.
* Holman Moody: GT40 Mark IIs won third at Le Mans in 1966, still manufacture a small number of GT40s from 1966 blueprints
CESG does not manufacture security equipment, but works with industry to ensure the availability of suitable products and services, while GCHQ itself can fund research into such areas, for example to the Centre for Quantum Computing at Oxford University and the Heilbronn Institute at the University of Bristol.
Graves at Igbo-Ukwu ( 800 CE ) contained brass artifacts of local manufacture and glass beads from Egypt or India, indicative of extraregional trade.
* Billingham ( in Stockton-on-Tees ) and Wilton ( in present day Redcar and Cleveland ): ICI used the site to manufacture fertilisers in the 1920s and went on to produce plastics at Billingham in 1934.
From 1971 to 1988 ICI Physics and Radioisotopes Section ( later known as Tracerco ) operated a small General Atomics TRIGA Mark I nuclear reactor at its Billingham factory for the production of radioisotopes used in the manufacture of flow and level instruments, among other products.
The difficulty of the manufacture of a large cylinder with a tightly fitting piston was solved by John Wilkinson who had developed precision boring techniques for cannon making at Bersham, near Wrexham, North Wales.
By 1794 Watt had been chosen by Thomas Beddoes to manufacture apparatus to produce, clean and store gases for use in the new Pneumatic Institution at Hotwells in Bristol.
Kilns are an essential part of the manufacture of all ceramics, which, by definition, require heat treatment, often at high temperatures.
* 1980: Rover car production ends at Solihull with the transfer of SD1 production to Cowley, Oxford ; Solihull is now exclusively for Land Rover manufacture.
* Blue Plaque commemorating the manufacture of the first commercial MRI whole body scanner at Osney Mead, Oxford
Where hundreds of thousands of identical devices are required, using parts programmed at the time of manufacture can be an economical option.
Only at the Brandenburg truck plant did vehicle manufacture roar ahead at full speed.
Prepackaged fresh pasta must have a water content not less than 24 %, must be stored refrigerated at a temperature of not more than 4 ° C ( with a 2 ° C tolerance ), must have undergone a heat treatment at least equivalent to pasteurisation, and must be sold within 5 days of the date of manufacture.
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