Other mills such as Bancroft Shed ran ten-sets.[2]. Access supplemental materials and multimedia. For terms and use, please refer to our Terms and Conditions Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon.co.uk. Check out The Poor Cotton Weaver [Explicit] (Live) by Clive Palmer on Amazon Music. Queen Street Mill ran sets of eight, with a training alley of six and a pensioners alley of 12 loom sets for two elderly weavers to work together. Social History The industry attempted to restructure using the 'more looms system' where the weavers were switched to tentering eight looms operating at 180 picks a minute. The event was to have dramatic consequences for the millions of American citizens whose lives were disrupted by four years of fighting, for the four million slaves who were ultimately emancipated as a result of the conflict, and also for The American Civil War had dramatic consequences for 500,000 Lancashire factory operatives who relied on supplies of cotton from America for their livelihoods. Old Billy O' Bent, he were telling us long We mayn't had better times if I'd nobbut held m' tongue. An' if things didn't alter after there hoo had been In the folk revival it reappeared. Actually, it is very similar to Jone o'Grinfilt Junior which can be found in John Harland's Ballads and Songs of Lancashire (1875 pp. The earlier version, the Poor Cotton Weaver, was probably written before 1800, after the Napoleonic wars it was revived or re-written, due to economic hard times, when weavers were reduced to eating nettles. According to Axon website Jone o … It is found on broadsides in Manchester up to the 1880s, it did not survive into the 20th century. Building on two centuries' experience, Taylor & Francis has grown rapidlyover the last two decades to become a leading international academic publisher.The Group publishes over 800 journals and over 1,800 new books each year, coveringa wide variety of subject areas and incorporating the journal imprints of Routledge,Carfax, Spon Press, Psychology Press, Martin Dunitz, and Taylor & Francis.Taylor & Francis is fully committed to the publication and dissemination of scholarly information of the highest quality, and today this remains the primary goal. The cotton operatives found themselves at the mercy of the economic situation. Me clogs are both brossen and stockings aw've none Mill workers worked their way up to four looms which were rented from the mill. Tha'd hardly give me tuppence for all aw've got on, We held on for six weeks like each day were the last Poor Cotton Weaver (Four-Loom Weaver) (Trad) Aw'm a four-loom weaver as many one knows Aw've now t' eat and aw've wore out me clothes Me clogs are both brossen and stockings aw've none Tha'd hardly give me tuppence for all aw've got on. © All original copyrights respected / For private use only, Susannes Folksong-Notizen   English Notes, Aw'm a four-loom weaver as many one knows We'd have far better times if we'd no' but held our tongue All Rights Reserved. Four Loom Weaver (Roud 1460), probably derived from "The Poor Cotton Weaver" is a 19th-century English lament on starvation. Select the purchase The employers' aim throughout was to take advantage of the economic situation and to maintain a submissive workforce. Hoo declares hoo would fight with blood up to th' een, Aw'm a four-loom weaver as many one knows We tarried an' shifted till now we're quite fast Many Lancashire folk, can give personal testimony of relative having worked in such a role. Research on all parts of the world will be considered, and the editors would particularly like to encourage work on areas such as Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. These may take the form of interventions that invoke discussion, provoke argument, enter criticism and create new space for analysis. The version by Ewan MacColl probably influenced the version by Silly Sisters and by Unto Ashes. Four Loom Weaver (Roud 1460), probably derived from "The Poor Cotton Weaver" is a 19th-century English lament on starvation. ©2000-2020 ITHAKA. Jez Lowe wrote his song "Nearer to Nettles", after an old woman approached his band's vocalist, who'd just sung The "Four-Loom Weaver", remarking she'd never been nearer to eating nettles at that time (late 80s/early 90s) than during any other period of her life. Although praised for their quiet endurance, they protested at their treatment and accepted relief only grudgingly. We held on for six weeks like each day were the last We tarried an' shifted till now we're quite fast This study, concentrating on the small town of Clitheroe, investigates the responses of the Poor Law Board of Guardians, the charitable Relief Committee, local employers and the operatives themselves to this crisis and the deprivation that ensued. Request Permissions. It was quietly put on hold, but with the Second World War curtailed freedoms most weaving sheds switched to eight. The song, originally called The Poor Cotton Wayver, was published on a broadsheet during the depression years that followed the close of the Napoleonic Wars. An' aw feel in me heart nettles soon clem to death, Oor Margit declares if hoo'd cloas to put on A song about the cotton industry. Read your article online and download the PDF from your email or your account. Well, I held m' tongue til I near lost m' breath, And I … A Four Loom weaver is power loom weaver using 4 Lancashire Looms in a Lancashire weaving shed. According to Axon website (Axon) Jone o Grinfilt was written by Joseph Lees of Glodwick, near Oldham in the 1790s. The Cotton Famine was caused by the cotton trade being interrupted by the American Civil War. My maternal grandmother was a four loom cotton weaver until the mill, where she worked, in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, was closed and relocated to India in the 1920s approx. There is also a version called the Oldham Weaver in Mary Barton, by Mrs Gaskell in 1848. It’s one of the striking documents of the Industrial Revolution. Four was the maximum so my nan told me, so a four loom weaver was an indication of the level of attainment in the industry. This caused industrial unrest,; and uneasy compromise of using six loom sets was reached. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. Check out using a credit card or bank account with. © 2003 Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Aw've held me tongue till aw can scarce catch me breath They probably would be Horrocks, or Howard & Bullough. Login via your institution. option. Auld Billy's a' reet for he'd never clem [4], Performance by Maddy Prior and June Tabor in 2008, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Four_Loom_Weaver&oldid=931538451, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 December 2019, at 13:52. As well as medieval, early modern and nineteenth-century history, Social History aims to extend its coverage of twentieth-century work. In a shortened and re-made form, it was popularised by Ewan MacColl some twenty-five years ago, in the earliest days of the folk song revival, and that is the form in which it is … Actually, it is very similar to Jone o'Grinfilt Junior which can be found in John Harland's Ballads and Songs of Lancashire.