Paul Brunat, a French national, was hired to create a state-of-the-art silk reeling mill to transition the industry to machine-based silk production. The mill became one of the largest in the ...

Inside the machine are 4360 bobbins in two rows each containing 600 meters of fine silk thread ... These were installed in his mill in Loughborough, Leicestershire. Heathcoat moved his family ...

Macclesfield was once the world's largest producer of finished silk, with 5,000 looms and 71 mill factories A historical silk mill has been given a new lease of life in a bid to "conserve the ...