North Duffield

[buona]

I hope I am posting this on the correct board?    If not, could someone kindly direct me to the correct board please?                                                                                                 
Does anyone know where I might find information about weavers/weaving in North Duffield in the  18th Century?  I have an ancestor who was a weaver there at that time.  There is plenty of information on the web but it tends to concentrate on the West Yorkshire area of Bradford, Halifax etc. – the industrial woollen mills.  I would be grateful for any help.  Many thanks.

[Spelk]

Correct board I think.
I don’t think it is specific to that village as hand weaving went on all over the uk at that time. Done at home all that was required was a loom and some wool which might have been spun elsewhere or by the family. Same process is still going on on some islands off Scotland. However very costly compared with machine made. Harris Tweed.
The loom used may have belonged to the family or they may have rented it from someone.
You can probably find out more by doing an online search using DuckDuckGo or similar.

[Treetotal]

North Duffield I believe is in North Yorkshire.
Carol

[KGarrad]

You're both right!

From Wikipedia:
North Duffield is a village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. It was historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.

[Rena]

In earlier times, where sheep grazed in fields you'll find weaving and knitting was a pastime.

I lived in the East Riding of Yorkshire and went to school in the 1940s and 1950s.

Both boys and girls were taught knitting when we were six years old and the cotton squares that we knitted were used as floor cloths.  Some Sailors would spend their spare time knitting garments or dressmaking during their spare time at sea.   At one of my schools all new pupils were given a portable loom to take home, on which we wove our blue with yellow stripe school scarves.

In earlier times, if a lady had money she paid milliners and dressmakers to make her hats and clothes, similarly with men who would  pay a tailor to provide clothing.

Sheffield is renowned for its steel and it's known that farmers would spend winter making nails for export.

[Spelk]

In earlier times, like the 1700s, only the rich had pastimes. Weaving was a way of staying alive for normal people.
When weaving in factories put the home weavers out of work then they would generally have to abandon their life in the village. Move to the towns where the factories were or other industrial mills, mines or factories. Or emigrate.

[Rena]

In earlier times, like the 1700s, only the rich had pastimes. Weaving was a way of staying alive for normal people.
When weaving in factories put the home weavers out of work then they would generally have to abandon their life in the village. Move to the towns where the factories were or other industrial mills, mines or factories. Or emigrate.

You can be as supercilious as you like, but that  doesn't change the fact that the main occupations in the whole of the UK were working on the land, either with animals or crops, or else fishing, prior to what we know as "the Industrial Age".

.One branch of my ancestry worked in Calton, and you may have heard of te Calton Weavers.   Not everyone who lived there  were weavers, there were others who made the pins/nails for the Inkle Factory..

[Watson]

I don't know about the 18th century, but there's no sign of any weavers in North Duffield in Baines's Yorkshire, 1822-3.  There were several butchers, a greater number of farmers, a shoemaker, two victuallers, schoolmaster, wheelwright, corn factor, and one or two others.  Incidentally, it says it was in the parish of Skipwith.

[Rena]

I don't know about the 18th century, but there's no sign of any weavers in North Duffield in Baines's Yorkshire, 1822-3.  There were several butchers, a greater number of farmers, a shoemaker, two victuallers, schoolmaster, wheelwright, corn factor, and one or two others.  Incidentally, it says it was in the parish of Skipwith.

Post Office books and Trade directories normally list the population of tradesmen of an area and their daytime specialist work.

I've never seen any directory mention the names of illicit makers of alcoholic beverages