For the past twenty years, curtis purchased its jewelry-cleaning kit components from evans’ suppliers, a local company that recently went out of business. as a recent hire to curtis, you are excited about the opportunity to search for a supplier. what should be your first step?

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t