Woollen Industry Collection

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

Edmund Cartwright, printers sample for the Worlds Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes, 1888

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

The Combing Work, c1750(?). Textile workers combing or carding wool

View of Hamilton, Victoria, Australia, c1885. Hamilton developed as an important centre of the Australian wool trade

Shawl weavers, Kashmir, India, c1900s(?). Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Shawl weavers, Kashmir, India, c1900s(?). Stereoscopic card

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

Samuel Morley, abolitionist, political radical, and statesman, c1890. Artist: Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Samuel Morley, abolitionist, political radical, and statesman, c1890. Morley (1809-1886) was the owner of a large and profitable woollen manufacturing business which employed thousands of workers in

Samuel Morley, MP, industrialist and politician, 1882. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Samuel Morley, MP, industrialist and politician, 1882. Morley (1809-1886) was the owner of a large and profitable woollen manufacturing business which employed thousands of workers in the East

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)

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

Three generations of women, 1814. A cottager is spinning wool, using a simple wheel without treadle, while her mother reels yarn. Her daughter stirs a cast iron pot standing on an open fire

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)

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

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