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The early 1800s saw a declining market for hosiery and lace, chiefly influenced by the closing of foreign markets with the introduction of the Orders in Council in 1807. |||The Luddite Bicentenary (March 10, 2011) "[http://ludditebicentenary.blogspot.com/2011/03/nottinghamshire-midlands-in-1811.html Nottinghamshire & The Midlands in 1811]"}}
{{Cquote|What became the first instance of Luddism in the year 1811 began during the daytime on Monday 11th March.
Hundreds of stockingers gathered in the market place in Nottingham, where angry speeches were made and the crowd was vociferous in condemning their Employers and clamouring for work and a more liberal price. Constables were called out and a troop of Dragoons paraded until nine o'clock in the evening.
The crowd then dispersed, but continued on to march to Arnold, north of Nottingham. Between dusk and dawn, no less than sixty stocking frames were broken by the mob, swarming around the town, entering the houses of unpopular stockingers, and breaking the frames of special, hated hosiers. The general populace so far from preventing, actually aided and abetted the disturbance, cheering on the frame-breakers and obstructing the authorities. It was necessary to call out the Dragoons the following morning in order to clear the town.|||The Luddite Bicentenary (March 11, 2011) "[http://ludditebicentenary.blogspot.com/2011/03/11th-march-1811-first-luddite-attack-at.html 11th March 1811: the first Luddite attack at Arnold, Nottinghamshire]"
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