The Yorkshire woollen manufacture is distributed over an area of nearly forty
miles by twenty, occupied by clothing towns and villages. Leeds, Bradford,
Halifax, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, and Wakefield, are the great manufacturing
centres. Mixed or coloured cloths are made principally in villages west of
Leeds and Wakefield; white or undyed cloths are made chiefly in the villages
occupying a belt of country extending from near Wakefield to Shipley. These
two districts are tolerably distinct, but at the margins of the two both
kinds of cloth are manufactured. Flannels and baizes are the principal
woollen articles made in and near Halifax, together with cloth for the use of
the army. Blankets are made in the line between Leeds and Huddersfield.
Bradford provides very largely the spun worsted required for the various
manufactures. Stuffs are made at Bradford, Halifax, and Leeds, and narrow
cloths at Huddersfield. Saddleworth furnishes broadcloth and kerseymeres. As
a specimen of the variety of articles produced in one factory, take the
following list, exhibited in the Crystal Palace by a Huddersfield
manufacturer:--"Summer shawls; summer coatings; winter woollen shawls;
vestings; cloakings; table covers; patent woollen cloth for gloves; do.
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