The textile mills used small girls too. It was thought that their tiny hands could tie knots quicker than anyone else, so they were the ones who tied the end of one spool of yarn to the beginning of the next on the knitting machines. They had to be fast on their feet to run from machine to machine.
They used small children to crawl through dangerous looms to clean them. Thankfully it was stopped in the UK and it was forbidden to employ very young children. Sadly many were also used as chimney sweeps and died from inhaling soot or getting stuck.
The textile mills used small girls too. It was thought that their tiny hands could tie knots quicker than anyone else, so they were the ones who tied the end of one spool of yarn to the beginning of the next on the knitting machines. They had to be fast on their feet to run from machine to machine.
They used small children to crawl through dangerous looms to clean them. Thankfully it was stopped in the UK and it was forbidden to employ very young children. Sadly many were also used as chimney sweeps and died from inhaling soot or getting stuck.