I have always thought that elastic web weaving produced fabric for support stockings. When my dad worked for Heathcotes at Carn Brea they had an auxiliary factory making Lastonet stockings. I always imagined that elastic web was a precursor of this. http://www.hillfields.org.uk/History/Weaving.htm As our "leader", Wendy, says ....... "ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS - GOOGLE!" Anne Paling SHEFFIELD, U.K. >From: "Peter J Richardson" <pjrich.ntl@googlemail.com> >To: <WARWICK-L@rootsweb.com> >Subject: [WAR] Elastic Weaving in Coventry (Re: Odells) >Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:12:40 +0100 > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "m payne" <payne1@bigpond.com> >To: <WARWICK-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:22 AM >Subject: [WAR] Odells > > > > Thanks Pat! I will check Richard & Georgina out. The Elastic Weaving >Company was definately in the family. > > Regards. Marie > >Please could you tell me a bit about the elastic weaving industry? Was >there a lot of elastic weaving in >Coventry? What exactly was it? > >I have a relative (William Richardson, b.c.1849) who was an "Elastic Web >Weaver" at the time of the 1871 census, >an "Elastic Webb Manufacturer" at the time of the 1881 census and an "India >Elastic Web Manufacturer" in 1891. >He disappears after 1891 - I assume "India" refers to the type of elastic >as in "India rubber" as opposed to him >being likely to start a factory in India? > >Thanks >Peter > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message