Four Loom Weaver

One source also names it Jone o Grinfilt[1] though this title usually refers to different lyrics and score, which is about the naiveté of country folk.

Actually, it is very similar to Jone o'Grinfilt Junior which can be found in John Harland's Ballads and Songs of Lancashire (1875 pp. 169–171).

My maternal grandmother was a four loom cotton weaver until the mill, where she worked, in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, was closed and relocated to India in the 1920s approx.

Will Lever, Malpas, Cheshire Power weavers would continue to tenter four looms until the mid-1930s operating at 220 picks a minute.

It was quietly put on hold, but with the Second World War curtailed freedoms most weaving sheds switched to eight.

[3] The Norton version[4] gives an earlier set of words the Poor Cotton Weaver which refers to the hand loom weaving.