Articles Obtained

Background to the Industry

I obtained some background to the industry from from extracts from a report:

The Silk Weavers of Spitalfields and Bethnal Green,
written in 1931 by Mr A. K. Sabin of the Bethnal Green Museum:

Background to the Silk Weaving Industry in East London

Articles in Cockney Ancestor

I obtained the following articles published in the Magazine of the East of London Family History Society:

Decline of Silk Trade (Summer 1983)

Decline of Silk Trade

Spitalfields & 19th Century Silk Weavers named Collier (Summer 2007)

19th Century Silk Weavers named Collier

Furby - a French Connection? (Winter 2007)

Furby - a French Connection?

Spitalfields & 19th Century Silk Weavers named Collier (Summer 2007 Update)

19th Century Silk Weavers named Collier -Update November 2011

Colin Bower
5 June 2023

Links to:

Silk Weavers named Collier - The Story So Far

Collier Family - Progress to Date