The Tailors Handbook – Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part two

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This is the eighth, and final, article taken from “The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information” by W.D.F. Vincent published in c1905. 

It is taken from the sixteenth part of the the handbook looking at the where the materials to make clothes come from – in this part, from animal products. 

“…By far the largest quantity of our wool now comes from Australia and New Zealand, and in 1898 Australia alone exported 660,000,000 pounds, the value of which was nearly £30,000,000…”

“There are few tailors of mature years who have not had more or less experience of the depredations caused by the moth, and it is a difficult question to decide whether to look upon this little insect as the tailor’s friend or foe, for under different circumstances it may be both…”

Sheep

➡ Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part two

All pages about WDF Vincent are listed below:

WDF Vincent

W.D.F. Vincent – Tailor and Journalist

W.D.F. Vincent[b. June 1860 d. June 1926] ...
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/ Family History, People, Tailoring, WDF Vincent
The Vincent Square

Never mind the Quality… The Vincent Square

The Vincent Square ...
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/ Edwardian Tailoring, People, Tailoring, WDF Vincent
Book Cover: Tailoring of the Belle Epoque

More about W.D.F. Vincent

W.D.F. Vincent b. 18 June 1860 d. 18 June 1926 Introduction by Betty Williams from "Tailoring of the Belle Epoque" ...
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/ Family History, People, WDF Vincent
Cutting Academy Flyer

The Noble Army of Tailors

These chapters appear towards the end of the original handbook, however as it gives a context to the numbers of ...
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/ Edwardian Tailoring, Tailoring, WDF Vincent
Frontspiece of the Tailor's Handbook

The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information

This book was originally published in about 1905. Over time I hope to add some of the contents of it ...
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/ Edwardian Tailoring, Tailoring, WDF Vincent
Cutting Academy Flyer

The Advantages of Tailoring

This is the first part of the The Tailor's Handbook of Useful Information which mostly exhorts the health benefits of ...
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/ Edwardian Tailoring, Tailoring, WDF Vincent
Private Lawler

The Ninth Part of a Man

This is the second part of the book - I have added some links at the end to provide further ...
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External Anatomy

External Anatomy

This is third part of the book - dealing with External Anatomy and the Proportions of the Body External anatomy ...
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/ Edwardian Tailoring, Tailoring, WDF Vincent
History of Costume from Tailors Handbook

History and Philosophy of Clothes

This is from the fourth to the seventh parts of the the handbook looking at the history and philosophy of ...
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/ Edwardian Tailoring, Tailoring, WDF Vincent
"The Bedlam of Creation", illustration depicting Diogenes Teufelsdroch in Monmouth Street

Origins of clothes and writings for tailors

This is from the the eighth to the thirteenth parts of the handbook, looking at what, today, would be seen ...
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The Jute Plant

Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part one

This is from the fourteenth and fifteenth parts of the handbook, starting to look at where the materials used for ...
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/ Edwardian Tailoring, Tailoring, WDF Vincent
Sheep

Where do the materials to make clothes come from – part two

This is from the sixteenth part of the handbook, finishing the look at where the materials used for making our ...
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/ Edwardian Tailoring, Tailoring, WDF Vincent