The Livery Hall of the Clothworkers' Company in 1859.

The Clothworkers’ Company was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1528, formed by the amalgamation of its two predecessor Companies, the Fullers (incorporated 1480) and the Shearmen (incorporated 1508). It succeeded to the position of the Shearmen’s Company and thus ranks twelfth in the order of precedence of Livery Companies of the City of London. Image File history File linksMetadata Banqueting_Hall_of_the_Clothworkers_Company_ILN_1859. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Banqueting_Hall_of_the_Clothworkers_Company_ILN_1859. ... A Royal Charter is a charter given by a monarch to legitimize an incorporated body, such as a city, company, university or such. ... Livery Companies are trade associations based in the City of London. ... The eastern side of the City of London viewed from St. ...

The original craft of the Clothworkers was the finishing of woven woollen cloth: fulling it to mat the fibres and remove the grease, drying it on tenter frames (from which derives the expression ‘to be on tenterhooks’), raising the nap with teasels (Dipsacus) and shearing it to a uniform finish. The Ordinances of The Clothworkers’ Company, first issued in 1532 and signed by Sir Thomas More, sought to regulate clothworking, to maintain standards and to protect approved practices. Fulling is a step in clothmaking which involves the cleansing of cloth (particularly wool) to get rid of oils, dirt, and other impurities. ... Species See text Dipsacus is a genus of flowering plant in the family Dipsacaceae. ... Ordinance can mean: A law made by a non-sovereign body such as a city council or a colony. ... Portrait of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478–6 July 1535), posthumously known also as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, author, and politician. ...

From the later Middle Ages, cloth production gradually moved away from London, a situation exacerbated by the Great Fire of London and the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. The charitable role of The Clothworkers’ Company nevertheless continued, supported by generous gifts of money and property by members and benefactors. London, as it appeared from Bankside, Southwark, During the Great Fire — Derived from a Print of the Period by Visscher The Great Fire of London was a major confligration that swept through the City of London from September 2 to September 5, 1666, and resulted more or less in the... The Industrial Revolution was the major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture. ...

Nowadays, the Company’s main role is in the charitable sphere, through The Clothworkers’ Foundation, an independent charity. Through its grants, the Foundation seeks to improve the quality of life, particularly for people and communities that face disadvantage.

Both the Company and the Foundation operate from Clothworkers’ Hall, in Dunster Court, off Mincing Lane in the City of London. The site was conveyed to a group of Shearmen in 1456 and the present building, completed in 1958, is the sixth on the site.

Famous Clothworkers include James I of England, Samuel Pepys, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, George Peabody, Sydney Waterlow, Edward VII, Lord Kelvin, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Sir Robert Menzies and the Duke of Kent. James VI of Scotland and James I of England and Ireland (occasionally known as King James the Vain) (Charles James) (19 June 1566–27 March 1625) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861 ) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... The Lady Burdett-Coutts Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (24 April 1814–30 December 1906), born Angela Georgina Burdett, was the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet, an MP, and the former Sophia Coutts, who was the daughter of Thomas Coutts, the wealthy banker who founded... This article is about George Peabody, a dry goods merchant and philanthropist in the northern United States, founder of the Peabody Institute. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Edward VII King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of India His Majesty King Edward VII (Albert Edward) (9 November 1841–6 May 1910) was the first British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ... William Thomson, Archbishop of York, has the same name as this man. ... Field Marshal Sir William Slim Field Marshal The Right Honourable William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC (6 August 1897 – 14 December 1970), British military commander and 13th Governor-General of Australia, was born near Bristol, Gloucestershire. ... Rt Hon Robert Menzies Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (20 December 1894 – 14 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia. ... HRH The Duke of Kent Duke of Kent is a title which has been created various times in the peerages of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, most recently as a royal dukedom for the fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom. ...

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