Weavers' windows
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Image:huguenot canterbury.jpg]]Weavers' windows are large horizontal windows on the top floor of a weavers' cottage that allowed the residents light to weave. Weavers' windows are associated with the Huguenot migration to Britain and Ireland.{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/2281603|title=Multicultural London—Changing shadows|date=18 December 2003|newspaper=The Economist|accessdate=10 March 2012}}
Overview
Before the Industrial Revolution, weaving was carried out in the homes of weavers, and their looms were typically on the top floor of their dwellings, lit by "Weavers' windows",{{Cite web |date=2023-07-07 |title=UPVC Windows vs Aluminium Windows: Which Is Better? |url=https://climateframedoubleglazing.com.au/upvc-vs-aluminium-windows/ |access-date=2023-09-11 |language=en-US}} long windows that admitted the most sunlight.{{cite book|last=Richards|first=J M|title=The functional tradition in early industrial buildings|publisher=Architectural Press|year=1968|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emY2AAAAMAAJ&q=%22weavers%27+windows%22|accessdate=10 March 2012}} Weavers' windows were also called "lights".{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22161|title=British History Online—Silk Weaving|work=British History Online|publisher=University of London|accessdate=3 April 2012}}
Quote
In chapter 17 of A Child of the Jago Arthur Morrison wrote:
And the wreckers tore down the foul old houses, laying bare the secret dens of a century of infamy; lifting out the wide sashes of the old ‘weavers’ windows’— the one good feature in the structures letting light and air at last into the subterraneous basements where men and women had swarmed, and bred, and died, like wolves in their lairs.{{cite web|url=https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/morrison/arthur/child-of-the-jago/chapter17.html#chapter17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403055650/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/morrison/arthur/child-of-the-jago/chapter17.html#chapter17|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 3, 2012|title=A Child of the Jago|work=ebooks.adelaide.edu.au|publisher=University of Adelaide|access-date=30 April 2013}}