Weaving Collection

Basket Weaving on the Shores of Lough Neagh, Co. Antrim - a view of Miss Celina Mulholland and a boy basket weaving outside a building. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Lough Neagh)

How Navajo Indian Rugs are made - USA Date: circa 1930s

Cotton weavers at their looms, Preston, Lancashire
Women operating cotton weaving looms at the works of Messrs Horrockses, Crewdson and Co Ltd of Preston, Lancashire

Cotton weaving shed, Preston, Lancashire
A huge cotton weaving shed at the works of Messrs Horrockses, Crewdson and Co Ltd of Preston, Lancashire, with people at work

Chilean Indian Woman weaving a blanket on a frame set against the thatched roof of her house Date: circa 1904

Silk Weaver 1855
A Spitalfields weaver at work

Power Loom Weaving
Interior of cotton mill in Lancashire: power loom weaving- man and woman tend machine

Mahatma Gandhi sailing from Boulogne to Folkestone
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, sailing from Boulogne to Folkestone on 12 September 1931

Cotton Weaving / Lancs
Cotton weaving, Lancashire

First Weaving-Loom
The First Weaving-Loom

Tompkins upright rotary knitting machine 1875
Tompkins American family company, showing upright rotary knitting machine. Date: 1875

Waringstown, the Home of the Damask Weaving Industry - a street scene of the main street with horse vehicle broadside in the middle of the road

Amoskeag Corporation, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Weave room in No. 11 Mill (a textile mill) of the Amoskeag Corporation, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. Date: 1911

Odyssey / Penelope / Gorguet
Penelope with her maids, weaving a shroud for her father-in-law. (She unravelled this every night because she had promised to chose one of her Suitors as soon as it was completed)

Lancashire Spinning Mill Victorian period

Haslam Weaving Co Ltd, Bolton, Lancashire
Concerning Cotton - Haslam Weaving Co Ltd Bolton, Lancashire - Factory. 1920

Weaving Galway Bridge?
Weaving (Galway Bridge?). Conor, William 1881-1968

Chinook Basket Maker - British Columbia, Canada. The use of the word Kloochman on this postcard is an example of chinook jargon, meaning Wife. Date: circa 1910s

A weaver weaving fabric on a loom in a cottage. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

C12 Weaving
Weaving in 12th century England, while a flock of sheep are there to provide the wool Date: circa 1160

Gobelins Tapestries
Weaving tapestry at the Gobelins works, on the outskirts of Paris

Industry / Textiles / Wool
Weaving at John Fosters mill, Bradford, Yorkshire, England

Luddites smash weaving machinery in a Nottingham textile factory. The Luddites were a movement of radical group of English textile workers

A Basotho woman making mats - South Africa. Date: circa 1930s

Weaving silk Patterson New Jersey USA early 1900s

Weaving taffeta silk ribbons Patterson New Jersey USA early 1900s

Canada textile industry early 1900s

Africa weaving pre-1900

A Navajo Indian making a rug - early 1900s

Textile machinery early 1900s

Hand loom weaver early 1900s

Hand loom weaver / spinner early 1900s

Hand loom weavers early 1900s

Paisley Cotton Mill Victorian period

Textile workers Victorian period Date: 19th century

Textile worker early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Weavers preparing silk for the looms, Cairo, Egypt Date: 1898

Looms in a weaving shed, early 1900s

Illustration of hand loom weaver, Victorian period

Hand loom linen weaver in Belfast, Ireland, Victorian period

Burnley Textile Workers early 1900s

Japan - Bamboo Ware Maker
Bamboo Ware Maker, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Weaving Sik on a traditional foot-powered loom, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Archaeological dig at Glastonbury
Archaeological finds for a dig in Glastonbury summerset. Seen are the Timber Foundation and Palisading at the Glastonbury Lake Village, a ladder found, a reaping-hook and some weaving combs

Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona province. The Strike of Igualada. Striking workers from the textile workshops, in the act of being harangued by their president. Engraving by Vela

A large industrial loom. Date: 1960

Women working in cramped conditions spinning yarn. Date: 1883

Woman Working a Foot Pedalled Power Loom 1854
Factory woman seated at her frame, preparing the wasp for a handloom. At the time the population of upwards of 18, 000 people

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