Textile Manufacturing Collection

Textile mill in Bergamo. Found in the Collection of Gallerie di Piazza Scala, Milano

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

Saltaire works, c1880. Sir Titus Salt (1803-1876) discovered a method of blending alpaca wool with cotton and silk. He is best remembered as the builder of Saltaire Mill near Bradford, Yorkshire

New Lanark Mills, Scotland, c1815. Robert Owens (1771-1858) model community of cotton mills and housing. Educational facilities were provided, as well as the worlds first day nursery

P.O. Dept. between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. P.O. Dept. between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
P.O. Dept. between 1910 and 1920. USA. Women operating Union Special sewing machines

P.O. Dept. between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. P.O. Dept. between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
P.O. Dept. between 1910 and 1920. USA. Women operating sewing machines

In the sewing room, Shafter camp for migrants (FSA), California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California

In the sewing room, Shafter camp for migrants (FSA) California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California

In the sewing room, Shafter camp for migrants (FSA), California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California

Preston, Lancashire, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Preston, Lancashire, 1862. The pure mountain air, and the full, strong sea-breeze, come laden with health to its people, and do their best to neutralise the effect of the smoke belched forth from

The New French Treaty - No. II. Lyons and French Silks, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The New French Treaty - No. II. Lyons and French Silks, 1862. View of the Croix Rousse...[this] was for a very long period the head-quarters of the population of canuts

Interior of a Power-Loom factory, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Interior of a Power-Loom factory, 1844. We are persuaded that the annexed engraving will be interesting to our readers, in connection with the great question of " The Factory Bill

Love Conquered Fear, c1840. Creator: Auguste Hervieu
Love Conquered Fear, c1840. Ragged child workers in a Victorian textile factory. British writer Frances Trollope visited Manchester in 1832 to witness the condition of children employed in

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

Bessbrook Mills and village, County Armagh, Ireland, c1880. The model village of Bessbrook was founded in 1845. It surrounded a large linen mill owned by the Richardsons, a Quaker family

Woman operating a power loom for weaving cotton, c1840. The model illustrated is that invented by Roberts (c1815-1820). Belting connecting to the drive shaft is shown at centre back of the picture

Greek women making Silk and Gold Thread Veils in the Factory at Athens, 1890. Creator: Samuel Melton Fisher
Greek women making Silk and Gold Thread Veils in the Factory at Athens, 1890

Lace Manufactory, Tiverton, c1836, (1943). Creator: Unknown
Lace Manufactory, Tiverton, c1836, (1943). Heathcoats Lace Manufactory at Tiverton in Devon, opened in 1816. From " English Cities and Small Towns", by John Betjeman. [Collins, London, 1943]

A Weaving-shed, c1917. From How It is Made, by Archibald Williams. [Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York]

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

Cloth Dressers, 1814. Artist: Robert Havell
Cloth Dressers, 1814. From Costume of Yorkshire by George Walker

Interior of a Weavers Workshop, Egypt, 1822. Artist: Schroeder
Interior of a Weavers Workshop, Egypt, 1822. From Volume II Arts and Trades of Description of Egypt, published under the orders of Napoleon, 1822

Poster of the Sergei Simanins Paper Yarn Weaving Factory in Stavrov, Early 20th cen. Found in the Collection of State Museum of Architecture, History and Art, Vladimir

Cotton manufacture, c1845. An adult hand with a boy assistant, forming cotton into laps so that it could be put into the carding machine in a uniform amounts

The mill at Saltaire, c1880. Sir Titus Salt (1803-1876) discovered a method of blending alpaca wool with cotton and silk. He is best remembered as the builder of Saltaire Mill near Bradford

Slave labour on a cotton plantation in the southern states of America, 1860. Putting cotton bolls through a whipping press before putting the cotton through a saw gin

The Jute Mills of the Cia. Nacional de Tecidos de Juta, 1914. Fabrica Sant Anna, State of Sao Paulo. From The Beautiful Rio De Janeiro by Alured Gray Bell. [William Heinemann, London, 1914]

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

Weighing and sorting raw silk skeins, South Manchester, Connecticut, USA, early 20th century. Stereoscopic card. Detail

General view of a large printing room in a cotton mill, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA, 20th century. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Doubling frame in a large woollen mill, Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA, early 20th century(?). Stereoscopic card. Detail

Spinning room, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, late 19th or early 20th century(?). Artist: Keystone View Company
Spinning room, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, late 19th or early 20th century(?). Winding bobbins with woollen yarn for weaving. Stereoscopic card. Detail

The Chintz Printing Room, Merton Abbey Mills, London, 1899. Merton Abbey Mills was acquired in 1881 by the artist and textile designer William Morris

Weaving Irish linen, Lurgan, Armagh, 1936. Artist: Fox
Weaving Irish linen, Lurgan, Armagh, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Carding, Drawing, and Roving, 19th century. Artist: J Carter
Carding, Drawing, and Roving, 19th century. Scene in a Victorian textiles factory with looms powered by steam

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 Slubbing-Billy, c1880. A machine for drawing out and twisting a strand of silk or other yarn in preparation for spinning

The Salt statue at Bradford, c1880. Sir Titus Salt (1803-1876) discovered a method of blending alpaca wool with cotton and silk

Net loom in the Stuarts factory, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York, c1880)

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

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

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

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