The Weavers' Way and Wherryman's Way long distance footpaths both pass near the station.
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When Polish women weavers at Everett Cotton Mills realized that their employer had reduced their pay by 32¢ they stopped their looms and left the mill, shouting "short pay, short pay!"
It became known as the Radical Road after it was paved in the aftermath of the Radical War of 1820, using the labour of unemployed weavers from the west of Scotland at the suggestion of Walter Scott as a form of work relief.
Paraded by the company's weavers through the town, it was then blessed by the Bishop of Exeter and presented to the Earl of Devon.
The development of bizarre designs among the English silk weavers of Spitalfields can be dated quite closely based on surviving textiles and documents.
The intention was for the participants, who were mainly Lancashire weavers, to march to London and petition the Prince Regent over the desperate state of the textile industry in Lancashire, and to protest over the recent suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.
The Calton Weavers massacre of 1787 is commemorated in a panel by Scottish artist Ken Currie in the People's Palace, Glasgow, commissioned on the 200th anniversary of the event.
A number of Amuzgo weavers have been recognized for their work including Florentina López de Jesús.
When Hugh MacDonald passed through Crossmyloof on one of his Rambles in 1851, he found that the weavers of Crossmyloof and Strathbungo, like their neighbours on the hill above at Langside, were 'celebrated growers of tulips, pansies, dahlias and other floricultural favourites' and met regularly at their florist clubs to examine choice flowers and discuss the best means of rearing them to perfection.
The title was inspired by the famous poem "The Silesian Weavers" by German poet Heinrich Heine.
After partition of India, many skilled weavers of Dhaka came and settled in West Bengal around Shantipur in Nadia district and Ambika Kalna of Bardhaman district, both traditionally renowned centres for hand-woven fabrics.
Late Praja Bandhu Pragada Kotaiah, Member of Parliament, is the unique leader who represented the problems of handloom weavers in the Parliament.
Ouvry was also a member of the Weavers' Company, one of the treasurers of the Royal Literary Fund, and a member of other literary societies.
Most recently, Ferring made multi-million US dollar donations to the Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan which will be used to fund the creation and development of a new cultural centre in the Bhutanese capital, Thimphu, as well as to support the country's weavers, a role traditionally performed by women.
The so-called March of the Blanketeers saw 400 spinners and weavers march from Manchester to London in March 1817 to hand the Government a petition.
This is one of the oldest temples in Varanasi, located near Bengal Tola Inter College and next to the famous weavers colony of Madanpura.
Following her BP Travel Award win, Jo spent two months in Peru, within an indigenous community of Quechua weavers in the small, mountainous village of Patacancha.
Some of the villages of traditional 'kushitara' weavers, linked with the royal family of Bhutan, are found in the Kuri Chhu valley near Mongar.
In 1861, he and Cowell attempted to intervene in a strike in Clitheroe but were branded "notorious scoundrels" by the weavers there for their parts in the Preston strike.
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Upon his return to England, Grimshaw, Cowell and two other weavers were involved in a dispute between mill-owners and workers in Clitheroe, Lancashire, in 1861.
A group of Huguenot (ancestors of the Webb family, the present owners of Moygashel Weavers) settlers established an Irish linen weaving company there, weaving some of the finest linens in the world.
The Tai Lue cotton weavers in villages such as Nong Boua and Xieng Yun make dyes consisting of a blend of leaves, flowers, insects and wood and weave traditional cotton textiles.
After the Iranian Revolution and the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, Iranians enlisted local carpet weavers who reconstructed the pieces by hand.
The fabric is marketed through the cooperative society and APCO, the master weavers and the business houses in Pochampally.
Co-op society, Morazha Weavers Ind Co-op Society, Kerala Dinesh Beedi Co-op Society, Indian Coffee House etc.
The buildings have previously been used as shops of Huguenot silk weavers and traders.
The Mummy of Shimbillo's modern blanket and sacred new clothing were made by a women's association of organic cotton weavers from the town of San Antonio del Rio Mayo, in Lamas Province.
In 1948, Pierre Schunck (1906-1993), stemming from a family of weavers and son of the builder of the famous Glaspaleis in Heerlen, the Netherlands (see Schunck), arrived in Bonaire to set up a clothing industry (Kledingindustrie).
The fair features over 100 of Hawaii's artists and crafters - woodworkers, traditional Hawaiian artists, jewelers, ceramists, and weavers.
and the effect of modern technology on the livelihood of the traditional weavers of Lake Toba, Sumatra.
At the beginning of the century, however, a powder dye from the Aniline Factories of Germany came into popular use among Ilocano weavers, causing the death of the indigo industry.
Cat shows, bird shows and flower shows were also held, and for his ‘Indian Village’ Arthur Lasenby Liberty brought to The Albert Palace silk spinners and weavers, carpet makers, metal workers, sandalwood carvers, embroiderers, a sitar maker, singers, dancers, jugglers and snake-charmers from India.
Local, national and international artists have been featured at Folk Project events, including luminaries such as the Tannehill Weavers, Richard Shindell, Bob Franke, Odetta, Christine Lavin, Roy Book Binder, Dave Van Ronk, U. Utah Phillips and many, many more.
When there were strikes at Padiham in 1859) and Colne in 1860, he was elected to the council of the new North-East Lancashire Powerloom Weavers' Association.
Located to the rear of the Irgens House, which had served as artillery barracks since 1789, the site had previously housed Denmark's first canvas manufactury, which had been founded by the Weavers Guild.
"The Winds of the Forelands" is a five-book fantasy series written by American author David B. Coe and consisting of "The Rules of Ascension", "Seeds of Betrayal", "Bonds of Vengeance", "Shapers of Darkness", and "Weavers of War".