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Piecers & Spinning Mills

by: Ellie Stedina and Anna Steel

Febuary 2018

Our Quote

Our Quote:

"The noise was what impressed me most. Clatter, rattle, bang, the swish of thrusting levers and the crowding of hundreds of men, women and children at their work. Long rows of huge spinning-frames, with thousands of whirling spindles, slid forward several feet, paused and then slid smoothly back again, continuing the process unceasingly hour after hour while cotton became yarn and yarn changed to weaving material. Often the threads on the spindles broke as they were stretched and twisted and spun. These broken ends had to be instantly repaired; the piecer ran forward and joined them swiftly, with a deft touch that is an art of its own."

- John Clynes, became a piecer at 10-years-old

John Clynes

John Clynes

John Clynes was born in Oldham, Lancashire and began working in a cotton mill as a peicer when he was ten years old. By the time he was sixteen, he had written a series about child labour in the textile industry. He was also mainly self-educated. In 1892, he was recruited as an organizer for the Lancashire Gasworks Union.

Samuel Slater

Samuel Slater

Samuel Slater was an industrialist who worked as a piecer for many years. He was born June 9, 1768 in Belper, Derbyshire, England. He was also know as the "Father of the Industrial Revolution" and the "Father of the American Factory System." He had built carding, drawing, and roving machines to increase mass-production. The Industrial Revolution orgininated in Great Britian and Slater brought the Industrial Revolution over to the United States.

Textile Industry

Textile Industry

Piecers worked in the textile industry and pieced together the broken threads while leaning over the machine. This was not only a dangerous act but the peicers had to be quick and efficient. During the Industrial Revolution, there was a bigger demand for textiles and the amount of piecers grew.

Spinning Mill

Spinning Mill

Spinning mills were first invented by Jedediah Strutt and Richard Arkwright in 1771, using using water to power the mill. The first cotton mill in America was invented by Samuel Slater in Pawtucket. Using spinning mills for creating textiles were more efficient and quicker during the Industrial Revolution because throughout the revolution there was a ceave for more and more textile. This lead to the textiles becomming less expensive because of mass-production.

Piecers

Piecers and machines

Piecers are people that work in the textile industry. Most of the piecers are young children who work with their parents. Most children were around 8-10 years old when they started to work in the factories. Piecers in the factories used things such as the spinning mill. Other machines used in the textile industry included; the steamboat, the steam engine, and the water frame. The steamboat changed the way that the materials would travel from colony to colony in Britian. The water frame is a machine that replaced the spinning mill because it was able to make yarn faster. The Spinning Jenny allowed one person to make many threads at once.

Children In Textile Industry

Children in the Textile Industry

Most children worked in the textile industry because of their parents. The families that worked in the factories usually worked there because their families needed all the money they could get. Also, it was easy for children to get into smaller areas of the factories to clean and grab things that may have fallen.

Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

http://spartacus-educational.com/IRpiecers.htm

(john@spartacus-educational.com), John Simkin. Spartacus Educational, Spartacus Educational, spartacus-educational.com/IRpiecers.htm.

This website talks about what a piecer is and what they did. The website also talks about the different machines that the piecers used. It also says that the piecers worked in the Textile Industry.

2. https://www.thoughtco.com/textile-machinery-industrial-revolution-4076291

ellis, Mary. “Learn More About Textile Machinery Inventions.” ThoughtCo, www.thoughtco.com/textile-machinery-industrial-revolution-4076291.

This website includes a list of machinery used in the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution. It also gives a timeline of all of the machines used in the textile industry. It gives a timeline that tells us about the inventors and the inventions.

3. https://industrialrevolution.sea.ca/innovations.html

Eric Bond, Sheena Gingerich, Oliver Archer-Antonsen, Liam Purcell, Elizabeth Macklem. “Innovations of the Industrial Revolution.” The Industrial Revolution - Innovations, industrialrevolution.sea.ca/innovations.html.

This website talks about each invention used in the textile industry and gives a description about each one and it talks about the person who invented it and when. It also gives dates for when the invention was actually starting to be used. It also talks about two types of systems that were used during that time.

Questions

Questions

1. What was the purpose of Piecers?

2. How do you think the parents of the piercers felt about their children working in the textile industry?

3. How old were children when they started to work in the factories?

4. Why do you think the piercers worked for many years? Were they fired or could they decide for themselves how many years they wanted to work in the textile industry?

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