Putting-out system
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The putting-out system, also known historically as the domestic system or workshop system, was a method of subcontracting production in which a central agent, often a merchant or manufacturer, distrib
George Walker, 1814
19th-century ox-powered double carding machine
Queen Bertha of Burgundy instructing girls to spin flax on spindles using distaffs
1795 home of a Swedish businessman who contracted up to 200 domestic workers, who came here to get the raw material and returned after a couple of weeks with textiles, which local peddlers from the city of Borås then bought.
Industrial Revolution
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The Industrial Revolution, sometimes called the First Industrial Revolution in contrast to the subsequent Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global economy toward more wide
Putting-out system
…in the textile industry, shoemaking, lock-making, and the production of small firearm parts. It flourished from the late Middle Ages through the Industrial Revolution, gradually declining in the mid-19th century with the rise of centralized factory production. The putting-out system was embedded in the socio-economic…
A Roberts loom in a weaving shed in the United Kingdom in 1835
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern by Robert Howlett, 1857
Weaving with handlooms from William Hogarth's Industry and Idleness in 1747
John Lombe's silk mill site today in Derby, rebuilt as Derby Silk Mill