Textile Industry Collection (page 8)

The Swedish pavilion at the Universal Exhibition of 1900, Paris, 1900. Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a worlds fair held in Paris, France

The breeding of silk worms, 1775. A print from La nouvelle maison rustique, ou economie generale de tous les biens de campagne

Cloth Maker, Aged 42, 1828. Artist: Marlet et Cie
Cloth Maker, Aged 42, 1828. A lithograph from L Inde Francais, 1828. From the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Fabric Painters, 1828. Artist: Marlet et Cie
Fabric Painters, 1828. A lithograph from L Inde Francais, 1828. From the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Weavers, 1828. Artist: Marlet et Cie
Weavers, 1828. A lithograph from L Inde Francais, 1828. From the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Seamstresses of the National Union of Women, Frankfurt am Main, World War I, 1915. A photograph from Der Grosse Krieg in Bildern

Tailor, c1845. In the centre the tailor is using a flat iron to press a jacket on an ironing board. At the bottom is a sheep, source of the wool from which the cloth for the jacket was woven

The Sheep, c1850. Artist: Day & Haghe
The Sheep, c1850. The central image is of sheep of the Black Faced breed. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left)

Silk weaver, Bethnal Green, East London, 1893. A weaver at work on a hand loom in his cottage at Bethnal Green. His loom is set up by a wide window typical of weavers cottages in many English towns

Spitalfields silk weavers, 1893. Warners workshops, Spitalfields, East London. The weavers are working on hand looms and the weaving shed is lit by fishtail gas lights

Female silk worker, Spitalfields, London, 1833. A woman is winding silk onto the warping frame. The Spitalfields silk industry was begun by Huguenot refugees who left France after the Revocation by

Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor, 1880. Jacquard (1752-1834), inventor of the punched card loom being attacked by the silk weavers of Lyon who were afraid his invention would put them out of

Titus Salt, British woolstapler and industrialist, c1880. Salt (1803-1876) discovered a method of blending alpaca wool with cotton and silk

Spitalfields silk worker winding silk in her cottage, London, England, 1893. This enclave of the silk industry was founded by Huguenot refugees from France after Louis XIVs Revocation of the Edict of

A Spitalfields silk weaver at his hand loom, 1884. This man could earn 70p in a good week, below the average for a skilled worker

Barthelemy Thimonnier, 19th century French inventor, [1907]. Thimmonier (1793-1857) patented the first sewing machine to be put into practical use, in Paris in 1830

Joseph Marie Jacquard, showing his loom to Lazare Carnot, Lyon, France, 1801 (1901). French silk-weaver and inventor Jacquard (1752-1834)

Gathering mulberry leaves to feed silkworms, 19th century. Chinese painting on rice paper

Wallace Hume Carothers, American industrial chemist, c1927-1937. Carothers (1896-1937), seen here in the laboratory, discovered nylon while working for the Dupont Company in 1927

Child factory workers, 1814. Artist: Robert Havell
Child factory workers, 1814. Two children in aprons, carrying baskets. Behind them is a textile mill where they work. Plate XXXVI from The Costume of Yorkshire illustrated by a series of forty

Production of woollen cloth, 1750. Textile workers raising pile and pressing the wool in a screw press

Cropping wool to give an even pile after nap had been raised, 1814. From The Costume of Yorkshire by George Walker. (Leeds, 1814)

The Worsted Winder, 1805. Artist: William Henry Pyne
The Worsted Winder, 1805. A woman winding worsted thread onto bobbins ready for lace making. From The Costume of Great Britain by William Henry Pyne. (London, 1805)

Stocking frame workshop, 1750. Women winding and reeling the yarn, and a man working the knitting frame. From The Universal Magazine, London, 1750

Weaving shed fitted with Jacquard power looms, c1880. French silk-weaver and inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a loom which used a punched card system to weave complicated patterns in textiles

Women workers in a carpet factory, c1895. Electric lights with incandescent bulbs hang over each loom to supplement natural lighting and enable the working day to be extended

Worsted manufacturing, c1845. A man, woman and small boy working a wheel for combing long staple wool into slivers for worsted manufacture

Carding, drawing and roving cotton, c1830. A carding engine (left) delivers cotton in a single sliver. The factory is operated by shafts and belting, which could be powered by water or steam

Weaving shed fitted with rows of power looms driven by belt and shafting, c1840

Weaver at his loom, 1823. This man would be a piece-worker with his loom in his house, and would produce lengths of cloth for a merchant who often supplied him with his yarn

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

Jacquard power loom, 1915. In 1801 the Frenchman Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) invented a method of weaving intricate patterns by encoding them on punched cards

Murex, c1890. The mollusc which inhabited this shell was the source of Tyrian Purple dye

Women examining silk moth eggs and putting them in boxes for hatching into caterpillars, 1748
Women examining silk moth eggs and putting them in boxes for hatching into caterpillars (silkworms), 1748. From The Universal Magazine. (London, 1748)

The Manner of Feeding Silkworms, 1753. Artist: Benjamin Cole
The Manner of Feeding Silkworms, 1753. A silkworm farm, showing the interior of the rearing house or Magnangerie and the collection of mulberry leaves on which the caterpillars (worms) were fed

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

The first cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, and Richard Arkwrights house, 1836. Arkwright (1732-1792) was the inventor of textile manufacturing machinery which included the first practical means

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

Gossypium - cotton plant, 1823. Artist: Neale and Son
Gossypium - cotton plant, 1823. Different varieties formed the basis of cotton production in widespread parts of the world, including India, China, Egypt and America

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

The Factory Children, 1814. Artist: George Walker of Seacroft
The Factory Children, 1814. Boy and girl employees walk to work carrying the days food in baskets. In the background is a typical West Riding mill for wool or cotton

Interior of the Cloth Hall, Leeds, 1814. Artist: George Walker of Seacroft
Interior of the Cloth Hall, Leeds, 1814. This building was one of the great centres for the sale of woollen cloth. Merchants are bargaining over bolts/pieces of fabric

Louis XIV of France visiting the Gobelins tapestry works, 17th century (late 19th century). Colbert, Louis Minister of Finance established Gobelins and the Sevres porcelain factory

Robert Peel, British industrialist. Peel (1750-1830) made his fortune in the cotton industry. He was the father of the statesman Robert Peel. Engraving after a portrait by Thomas Lawrence

Lace making, 1884. A small girl minding the spools to see that all runs smoothly on a machine winding cotton thread on bobbins for use in making Nottingham machine lace

Women operatives tending power looms in a Yorkshire woollen mill, 1883

View of Leeds, Yorkshire, early 19th century. The economy of Leeds was based on the wool industry. The citys prosperity was greatly increased in the Industrial Revolution by the construction of

Wool merchant taking pieces of cloth to the Cloth Hall at Leeds for sale, 1814. These lengths of cloth were made by homeworkers

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