Weaving history: John Crossley Sons | Let''s Look Again
Jan 20, 2015· John Crossley Sons was the largest carpet manufacturer in the world throughout much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Based at Halifax in Yorkshire, it declined as cheaper imports arrived from overseas, and the factory closed in 1982. John Crossley (1772 1837) was a carpet weaver in Halifax, Yorkshire. He was promoted to mill manager.