Description
A downloadable PDF version of Charles Vickerman’s 1883 book “The Woollen Thread: it’s Nature and History, it’s Structure and Use”.
The PDF was prepared from an original copy of the book and the text can be searched.
Please note that this book can also be read online for free. However, if you would like to show your support for the Huddersfield Exposed web site and enable us to continue digitising historic material, all of the income will be used to help secure more items. Whenever possible, the items will then be donated to one of the local public archives so that they are preserved for future generations.
The PDF contains 90 pages and has a file size of 59MB.
Licensing
The Huddersfield Exposed web site asserts no copyright over this digitised version of the book. Once you have purchased and downloaded the PDF, you are free to do anything you want with it. However, we would respectfully request that if you make the PDF available elsewhere, please do not remove or alter the cover sheet and/or PDF metadata properties.
The author, Charles Vickerman, died on 26 January 1895 and his works are in the Public Domain. He was born in Marsden on 19 May 1821 and worked in the textile trade, eventually becoming the manager of a mill.
Sample
A sample PDF which includes the table of contents and the first chapter can be downloaded here if you’d like to “try before you buy”.
