Moxon

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History Moxon traces its origins to 1556; a period of monarchical uncertainty in England. The firm essentially came to prominence during the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I of England who reigned from 1558 until 1603, primarily as a Cottage industry. At the time, there were three main stages to the manufacturing of cloth: carding, spinning and weaving. Established in 1556, the earliest Moxon nurtured their growing relationship with that most natural and healthy of materials; wool, which heralded an era of significant development in handloomed cloth. Over the coming generations, the Moxon family would transform homespun yarn into cloth more than a century before the start of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. By the late seventeenth century, the already well-established textile industry in Yorkshire benefited from the ever-growing wealth in Europe. During the late eighteenth century, at the height of the great Industrial Revolution, the British textile industry saw unparalleled expansion in both techniques and markets, which brought about increasing pressure to modernise and expand, and saw the nationwide introduction of shuttle looms. In 1887, now based in Old Providence Mills in Marsh, Yorkshire, the company had Benjamin H. Moxon at the helm, who could look back with considerable pride upon his ancestor's contribution to cloth-making in the region. He and his successors maintained a steadfast commitment to the development and expansion of specialist and...