SILK STOCKINGS 300 YEARS AGO
Silk stockings are not a modern manufacture. In “English Girlhood at School,” Miss Dorothy Gardiner tells us tliat in 1636-7 Katherine Elliott, the young Duke of York’s nurse, petitioned the King for a grant for the sealing of silk stockings, etc., in order to distinguish the woven articles from the knitted. “The trade in silk stockings was, as usual with women’s trades, not Incorporated, and was subject to every kind of fraud. For the time being, however, the silk stocking trade was evidently a flourishing one. Ono Bristol merchant, Edward Jenkins, and his wife Lucy, appear in the Rolls year by year, as taking fresh learners, the employer receiving a premium of 20s, and finding apparel from time to time, as occasion .filial? serve. Ch, these terms Jenkins undertakes to teach Eleanor Collins to knit ‘silke stockins’ and to make her ‘a perfect workwoman’; he is to give her in (lie. fourth and fifth year of her articles two shillings for every pair of stockings she completes, and in the sixth and seventh year, four shillings, by which time her needles must have moved like lightning.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 13 July 1929, Page 11
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191SILK STOCKINGS 300 YEARS AGO Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 13 July 1929, Page 11
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