Carding Collection

Scenes of peasant working life, Ireland
These illustrations show women and men engaged in activities such as carding wool, spinning, sowing, threshing, minnowing and scutching

Spinning Harris Tweed
Production of Harris Tweed. The wool is carded and spun; carding loosens the wool and ensure it is fine enough to spin

Cotton Carding Machinery
Interior of cotton mill: girls and women tend carding, drawing and roving machinery

Carding machines in a woollen mill in Bradford, Yorkshire, late Victorian period

CARDING WOOL / 1848
Hand carding wool in a cottage in Scotland. Date: 1848

CARDING WOOL, SCOTLAND
A Scotswoman in her cottage cards wool, preparatory to spinning it into thread Date: 1848

Cotton Carding Machinery
Interior of cotton mill: girls and women tend carding, drawing and roving machinery. Date: 1835

Carding and Spinning - a view of an old woman spinning, using a spinning wheel and a young girl hackling sitting outside a thatched cottage. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Carding Wool and Spinning With a Castle Wheel, Co Antrim - woman with spinning wheel surrounded by family outside thatched cottage. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Spinning and Carding Wool, Co. Donegal - a woman with a spinning wheel and a young girl work outside a thatched cottage. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal). Date: circa early 1900s

N. of Ireland Spinning Industry, Carding Tow - a view of a machine in a spinning factory for carding tow. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Figurine depicting a carder at the 17th and 18th centuries. Sabadell History Museum. Catalonia. Spain

Algerian Carding Wool
An Algerian woman carding wool Date: 1906

Women with spinning wheel, Scotland
Two women and a girl sitting outside the Post Office with a spinning wheel and other equipment, Scotland. Date: late 19th century

Carding Mill Valley
A family take a break beside their car in the dramatic Carding Mill Valley, near Church Stretton, Shropshire, England. Date: 1950s

Manufacturing Wool Yarn
The Worlds largest (at the time) single line of worsted carding machines for opening scoured raw wool prior to combing at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Carding Wool
CARDING WOOL - A countrywoman shows her daughter - or maybe grand-daughter - how to comb and disentangle wool with a wool-card

Spinning, Canada
and carding in a Canadian home

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