Link: Jobs in the Cotton Industry

[andrewalston]

Many of us have relatives who worked in the cotton mills of Lancashire. The job descriptions we find in documents can mean nothing to us, and we won't find the specialist terms in most dictionaries.

With reference to my Aunt Hilda, I have assembled a list:-
              http://www.andrewalston.co.uk/cottonindustryjobs.html

Please PM or email me if you think it can be improved.

[Aulus]

Great work Andrew.

I'm sure that's going to be helpful to a lot of us.

[Shropshire Lass]

That was quick work! 

Thanks,
Monica

[Dancing Master]

 How about a Fustian Cutter

A person who lifted and cut the threads in the making of Fustian, formerly a kind of coarse cloth made of cotton and flax. Now a thick, twilled cotton cloth with a short pile or nap, a kind of cotton velvet. A long thin knife was inserted into the loops and the threads cut as it was pulled through, stretched between rollers. The cloth was then brushed to raise the pile. Fustian is the old name for corduroy

[Jillie42]

A few of my Sutcliffes were Throstle tenters and two, father and son were engineers in a cotton mill somewhere in or around Todmorden but I've never been able to find out whether the job was as skilled as it sounds and whether it was reasonably well paid.