Spinning Machine Collection

Interior with a spinning woman with a child, 1796. Creator: W. Barthautz
Interior with a spinning woman with a child, 1796

Silk Culture in China: preparing raw silk, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Silk Culture in China: preparing raw silk, 1857. When the worms have cast their several skins...they are removed...preparatory to their spinning

Domestic Pleasures, mid-late 18th century. Creator: Jean-Simeon Chardin
Domestic Pleasures, mid-late 18th century

The Spinster, after Edwin Long, R.A., 1891. Creator: Edwin Long
The Spinster, after Edwin Long, R.A., 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

The Ingenious Spinning Jenny Invented by James Hargreaves, c1925. James Hargreaves, (c1720-1778), English inventor. From Cassells Romance of Famous Lives, Volume 3 by Harold Wheeler

Love Conquered Fear, 1840. Michael Armstrong, adopted by a mill owner, embracing his brother Edward who is one of the ragged factory boys working amongst the spinning mules

Interior of a House, n. d. Creator: Eliphalet Frazer Andrews
Interior of a House, n.d

Imported Silk Reeling Machine at Tsukiji in Tokyo, 4th month, 1872

Spinning room, c1776, (1943). Creator: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin
Spinning room, c1776, (1943). Spinners using two-handed spinning wheels in the establishment of a Monsieur de Berniere. Drawing in the Ecole de Beaux-Arts, Paris

Cromptons Wonderful Spinning Mule, c1934. Illustration showing the spinning mule, invented between 1775 and 1779 by Samuel Crompton to spin cotton and other fibres

General View of Spinning-room, c1917. From How It is Made, by Archibald Williams. [Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York]

Cotton, 3. - Spinning Machine, Lancashire, 1928. From Players Cigarettes - Products of the World: A Series of 50 [John Player & Sons, London, 1928]

Arkwrights Spinning Jenny, 1769, 1769, (1904). From Social England, Volume V, edited by H.D. Traill, D.C.L. and J. S. Mann, M.A

Woman using a Spinning Jenny, c1880. The Spinning Jenny was invented by James Hargreaves (c1720-1778) in 1764. On his original machine

Cotton-Spinning, c19th century
Cotton-Spinning. Various aspects of cotton spinning, including Bobbin and fly-frames (1, 2) and Spinning Mules (3, 4), c19th century

The spinning mule, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York, c1880)

The spinning room in the Shadwell rope works, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York, c1880)

Thomas Highs spinning jenny, (c1880). Highs (1718-1803) invented a version of the spinning jenny. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin

Richard Arkwright, 18th century British industrialist and inventor, (1836). Artist: James Posselwhite
Richard Arkwright, 18th century British industrialist and inventor, (1836). Arkwright (1732-1792) was the inventor of textile manufacturing machinery which included the first practical means of

Samuel Crompton, English inventor of the spinning mule, c1880s. Artist: James Morrison
Samuel Crompton, English inventor of the spinning mule, c1880s. Between 1772 and 1779 Crompton invented the spinning mule frame

Richard Arkwright (1732-1792), British industrialist and inventor. Arkwright was the inventor of textile manufacturing machinery which included the first practical means of mechanical spinning using

Cotton manufacture: mule spinning, c1830. A self-acting mule of the type devised by Richard Roberts in 1825. Roberts spinning mule produced better yarn than any other machine

Spinning cotton with self-acting mules of the type devised by Richard Roberts in 1825 (c1835). These could be powered by water wheel or steam engine

Spinning Jenny, 1820. The Spinning Jenny was invented by James Hargreaves (c1720-1778) in 1764. On his original machine, a single wheel controlled eight spindles rather than the single spindle

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