Regency Advertisements: Diamond Sewing Cotton

NAISH'S DIAMOND SEWING COTTON By a peculiar process rendered remarkably strong and free from curling Sold wholesale and retail by F Naish Inventor of the Improved Stays Baby Lineu Warehouse 37 Gracechurcb street London Boxes containing a useful assortment at 18.3 d Is 60 28 29 60.38 63 58 & c cach 50 TAISII'S PATENT

This ad appeared in the July 1819 issue of La Belle Assemblee.

I found these ads well into the mid 19th century until this article was spotted:

OTICE is hereby given that the Partnership here N tofore subsisting between the undersigned William Patent Diamond Sewing Cotton and other Cottons and as Naish and Henry Naish as Manufacturers of Naish's Hosiers and Glovers in the city of Bristol under the style Naish and Co was dissolved and determined for and from the 31st January last when the said William Naish retired therefrom and that from that date the business has Thomson Naish and Louis Edmund Naish who will come been carried on by the undersigned Henry Naish and Henry tinue the same and by whom all debts due to and from the late firm will be received and paid Witness our hands this 12th day of June 1865 Wm Naish H Thomson Naish Henry Naish Louis Edmd Naish

William was the son of Quaker Edmund Naish who patented mechanized winding cotton improvements in 1818.

Read more about sewing supplies from the early 19th century here: https://twothreadsback.com/2019/01/

Read a bit more about the Naishs and one of their distributors: https://londonstreetviews.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/henry-blenkinsop-hosier/

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4 Responses to Regency Advertisements: Diamond Sewing Cotton

  1. Michelle H says:

    Oh my goodness, what a wonderful rabbit hole that was exploring. Thread, sewing, fabric, yarn, embroidery, etc., right up my alley. Thank you! What fun. The link to twothreadsback was great!!!

    • Anne says:

      Oh, I am so glad you enjoyed! I thought the twothreadsback was such a wonderful post full of really interesting details…I am glad someone fell down the rabbit hole with me!

      • Michelle H says:

        Ha! I wasn’t kidding when I said the article was right up my alley. My heart rate went up, zing! while reading it. Those photos made me lust. The very idea of handpainted thread papers thrills me. I’m nuts. I know. Would one have to sell a body part to acquire one of those balls of beautifully wound thread? I can only imagine what ladies of the Regency thought of their beauty.

        I even followed the additional link about Bunel. I had never heard of him, but then I live in the States and I am sure there are giants of industry engineering in the U.S. I’ve never heard of because I didn’t study engineering. My husband recognized Bunel’s name.

        • Anne says:

          I don’t think that’s nuts…I think that is awesome! I have a bit of a textile obsession, too.

          So glad you had fun with it and really appreciate you sharing.