Industrial Revolution: Textiles: Domestic System

What was the Domestic System?

• sometimes called the "cottage industry"
• making cloth in the home
  • small scale
  • not much produced
• the workers are the family
  • spinning is done by the mother, weaving by the father, children card and clean raw wool
• organisation is co-ordinated by a clothier
  • owns wool
  • employs the family
  • sells the…