Miss Alice Law gives the prices for the whole series of years 1814-1833; as the work is fairly accessible I reproduce only samples, which show the trend sufficiently well. PRICES FOR WEAVING ONE PIECE OF SECOND OR THIRD 74 CALICO. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | 1814. | 1820. | 1821. | 1833. | |--------------------------|---------|---------|---------|---------| | |_s._ _d._|_s._ _d._|_s._ _d._|_s._ _d._| |Average price per piece. | 6 6 | 2 11 | 3 2 | 1 4 | |Average weekly sum a | | | | | | good weaver could earn | 26 0 | 11 8 | 12 7 | 5 4 | |Sum a family of 6, 3 being| | | | | | weavers, could earn. | 52 0 | 23 4 | 28 3-3/4| 12 0 | |Indispensable weekly | | | | | | expenses for repair of | | | | | | looms, fuel, light. | 5 3 | 5 3 | 5 3 | 4 3 | |Sum remaining to six | | | | | | persons for food and | | | | | | clothing per week. | 46 9 | 18 1 | 23 0-3/4| 7 9 | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Subjected to the competition of power-looms, the hand-weavers were compelled either to desert their employment and seek factory work, as in fact the younger, more capable and energetic of them actually did, or to reduce their rates of pay, which in time reached the point of starvation.