Dr. Edmund Cartwright the inventor of the first Power Loom The Remarkable thing about Cartwright was that he was neither an engineer or carpenter but a clergyman, who did nothing with his inventive genius until he was over forty years of age. In the summer of 1784 he had overheard that Arkwright’s
Norwich Wool “Stuff”, what a great name for a collection of cloths! Stuff became a general term for all sorts of woven textiles that incorporated wool or worsted into the structure, combining with other fibres such as linen, mohair or silk. When the cottage loom was only equipped with four shaft
