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Textile Mill
A textile mill was established by Simeon Lord. -
Textile Mill Agreement
Simeon Lord's mill entered and agreement with Governor Macquarie. The agreement stated that cloth from Parramatta Female Factory would be dyed and dreesed in the mill. -
Blackwattle Bay Textile Factory
This was another early textile factory and it made some of the cloths. -
Seven Wool Mills
Seven wollen mills were established in New Sout Wales by 1838. -
Parramatta Cloths
Parramatta dressed most people in New South Wales. -
Need for Woolen Cloth
By 1852, there was 235 000yards of cloth being made every year. -
Machinery in Textile Factoies
In Melborne sewing machines started to be used in the textile factories -
Suggested First Cloth Woven in Victoria
It was suggested that the first cloth woven in Victoria occured in 1863. Another theory is that it was made earlier. -
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Workers and Pay
By 1877 there were 1000 female or imigrant worker working in factories on low pay. -
Waverly Woolen Mill
Waverly Woolen Mill near Launceston won a 1000pound prize after its esablishment in 1873. -
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More Workers and Pay
By 1900 there was almost 2000 workers.