Old Photograph Bakers Shop Paisley Scotland

Old photograph of a Bakers Shop in Paisley, Scotland. The Industrial Revolution based on the textile industry turned Paisley by Glasgow, from a small market town to an important industrial town in the late 18th century. Its location attracted English mill owners; immigrants from Ayrshire and the Highlands poured in to a town that offered paying jobs to women and children. However, silk fell out of fashion 1790. The mills switched to the imitation Kashmir, cashmere. shawls called " Paisley. " Under the leadership of Thomas Coats, born 1809, died 1893, Paisley became the world centre for thread making.



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