Textile Worker Collection (page 6)

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

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

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

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

The Silk-Worm, c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
The Silk-Worm, c1850. Silk, from the silk moth (Bombyx) to the finished product. The central panel shows the lifecycle of the moth from egg to adult

Jacquard loom, with swags of punched cards from which pattern was woven, 1876

Man operating machine punching cards for Jacquard looms, 1844
Man operating machine punching cards for Jacquard looms. A total of 400-800 was normal, but sometimes 24, 000 were worked. From George Dodd The Textile Manufactures of Great Britain. (London, 1844)

Preparing punched cards for a Jacquard loom, 1844. The loom had a card for each weft thread of pattern. A total of 400-800 was normal, but sometimes 24, 000 were worked

Machine Room in a Steam Sewing Factory, 1854. This view is of Holloway, Crowe & Holloways clothing factory, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England

Wilson sewing machine, 1880. Belt-driven lock-stick model for industrial use showing samples of work that could be produced

Woman stretching cloth to dry; two children at play, Edo period, late 17th-early 18th century

Esemplario di lavori, August 1529. August 1529. Creator: NicoloZoppino
Esemplario di lavori, August 1529

Spitalfields silk weaving industry, Alma Road, Bethnal Green, London, 1909. Interior of a textile works showing revolving drums and a spreading out machine. A man is seated in the background

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