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Textile Industry

By Harry00x1

  • Simeon Lord established a mill in Sydney

  • Simeon entered into a agreement with Governor Macquarie to mill, dye and dress cloth from the Female Factory at Paramatta

  • A Textile Factory was established at Blackwattle Bay, Sydney

    It manufactured the finest as well as the coarsest cloths.

  • There were seven woollen mills in NSW

    By 1841 most people in the colony were dressed in tweeds made at Paramatta.

  • The output of woolen cloth reached 235,000 yards per annum

  • Introduction of weaving machinery

    According to the historian GJR Linge treadle aand steam-driven sewing machinews werre used in Melbourne clothing factories less than a decade after the development of tths equipment in the USA.

  • First cloth woven in Victoria

    Linge suggested that it was produced by the Victorian Woollen and Clth manufacturing Company. However it may actually have been a few years earlier at Pentridge Prison.

  • The Waverley Woollen Mill at Distillery Creek, Launceston

    This mill won a £1000 prize offered by the Tasmanian Colonial government for the first woollen goods manufactured in the ccoony from locally produced wool.