Saturday, 4th of September 2010
Making Cloth
Saturday, 08 March 2008 11:11

1834 Total Annual Expenses - £6,484.

To cover this 30 cloths a week must be made, 19 yards long, @ 2/7d a yard

1835 Cost of making a fine felt black; listing 27 separate processes including:

    £ s d
Transport to & from London   6 10 0
Spinning warp   4 9 0
Ditto abb ( weft)   1 18 0
Milling & Raising   1 5 5
Shearing     10 0
Dyeing Black     12 0
Total   6 19 9

Product 39 yards at 3/7d    £6/19/9

1839 Recipe for 8 ends of black felts

Logwood 54
Shumac 12
Copperas 12
Ros. Vitriol 10
Alum 1
Tartar 2

Cleared at 114 degrees with 1 quart vitriol

1840 Recipe for 500 German wool, wool dyed black

First Day
Logwood 100
Barwood 45
Algol 8
Alum 60

2 quarts yellow spirits after boiling for 2 hours

Second Day
Logwood 120
No Brazil