Come all you cotton weavers, your looms you may pull down; you must get employed in factories, in country or in town, for our cotton masters have found out a wonderful new scheme, these calico goods now wove by hand they’re going to weave by steam... If you go into a loom-shop where there’s three or four pair of looms, they are all standing empty, encumbrances of the rooms; and if you ask the reason why, the old mother will tell you plain, my daughters have forsaken them, and gone to weave by steam...