Hattersley s power looms weave cloth worldwide. There are a huge number of success stories which have their roots in Yorkshire, enough to fill a book. How It all Began in Yorkshire double bill. Volume 2 follows the success of its predecessor, which became Dalesman s fastest-selling book when it was first published. The Bradford district is well represented.
Textiles are there, obviously.
There s the story of Keighley-based company H.H. Calmon, which began when Hanns Herman Calmon came to England from Germany in the 1930s and eventually found his niche supplying woven labels to Britain s garment makers. His office was in Forster Square, near the station, and his factory initially in Silsden and later at Cabbage Mills in Keighley - where Tony Lee, the present chairman, joined the company as a designer in 1964. It now has 14 designers, and projected investment for this year was around 3 million. His prototype met a dramatic end, smashed to bits by Luddites at Nab Wood when it was en route to a customer in Bradford. Two hundred years on, reports Mr Baren, the company is known worldwide, with its 12,000-plus webbing designs and probably the world s most comprehensive range of wicks for heaters and lamps as well as transit straps and harnesses for wagons, hot air balloons and husky dogs.