Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Derwent Valley Mills' has mentioned 'Silk' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Water-power was first introduced to England by John Lombe at his silk mill in Derby in 1719, but it was Richard Arkwright who applied water-power to the process of producing cotton in the 1770s. | WIKI |
| Lombe's silk mill | WIKI |
| In the late 17th century silk making expanded due to demand for silk as part of fashionable garments. | WIKI |
| By 1763, 30xc2xa0years after Lombe's patent had expired, only seven Lombe mills had been built because the silk market was small, but Lombe had introduced a viable form of water powered machinery and had established a template for organised labour that later industrialists would follow. | WIKI |
| As silk was a luxury good, the market was small and easily saturated by machine produced goods. | WIKI |
| Spinning cotton was a more complex process than silk production. | WIKI |
| [54] At the extreme southern end of the site, Lombe's Silk Mill now houses the Derby Industrial Museum. | WIKI |
| [56] In October 2013 a programme started to reinvent the silk mill for the 21st Century, incorporating the principles of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths). | WIKI |
| It began with the construction of the Silk Mill in Derby in 1721 for the brothers John and Thomas Lombe, which housed machinery for throwing silk, based on an Italian design. | UNESCO |