Loom Collection

Donegal Carpet Hand-Loom Weaving at Killybegs - a view of a group of women in a factory operating a handloom. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal; Killybegs). Date: circa early 1900s

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

Pentonville Prison Cell
PENTONVILLE A cell in the prison, with a hammock for sleeping and a loom for day-work

Home of a Spitalfields weaver
Interior of a Huguenot silk weavers home in Spitalfields, London, showing the weaver hard at work at his loom

Silk Weaver 1855
A Spitalfields weaver at work

Swedish Peasant Interior
Swedish peasant interior, with tapestries, ornamental crockery, decorated chests, a loom, a grandfather clock and a cat

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

First Weaving-Loom
The First Weaving-Loom

Barlow?s patent double-action Jaquard loom, 1851. Exhib. Cat Date: 1851

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Carpet Factory (Usak)
Armenian or Greek women at work at a carpet factory at Usak, Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

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

Women Sunbathers 1930S
Three young women sunbathing in bathing caps, holding their faces up to the sun and sitting on wicker chairs

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

Women - Carpet Factory
Women working the Crompton Axminster Loom at Richard Smith & Sons, Kidderminster, England. Date: 1902

The Emperor's New Clothes - Edmund Dulac
They pointed to the empty loom, and the poor old minister stared hard as he could, but he could not see anything, for of course there was nothing to see

Weaving cotton with a hand loom, Japan, early 1900s. Date: early 1900s

Stocking weaver seated at a loom in a workshop
Stocking weaver seated at a stocking-loom in a workshop. The knitting machine handled silk, cotton and wool. Woodblock engraving from The Book of English Trades, or Library of Useful Arts, F.C.& J

Carpet weaver knotting a rug on a frame
Carpet weaver seated on a bench knotting a rug on a frame. Woodblock engraving from The Book of English Trades, or Library of Useful Arts, F.C.& J. Rivington, London, 1821

District of Adum in the town of Kumasi, Kingdom of Ashanti (Ghana), early 19th century. Woman selling goods, weaving fabric on a loom, tending a stall

Japanese woman weaving cloth on a loom, Japan
19th century vintage photograph: Japanese woman weaving cloth on a loom, Japan, c.1890 s

Utensils and tools of the Malagasy people of Madagascar

A tow breaker machine, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

A reeling machine, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

A hackling machine, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Striking up, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

A Plain Power Loom, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

A bleaching liquor cave, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Bleaching yarn on grass, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

A Spinning Frame, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Linen manufacture, Plain power loom Date: late 19th century

A Dobbie Loom, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Linen manufacture, Dobbie loom Date: late 19th century

A bale of flax, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Linen manufacture, Jacquard loom Date: late 19th century

Jacquard Looms, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

A boom yard, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Peaking, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

A Pirn Winding Machine, linen production, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Production of linen, a spreader machine, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Production of linen, an Equaliser machine, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Production of linen, a Roving Frame, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

A Damask hand loom, linen production, Victorian period

Linen manufacture, Damask hand loom

A squeezing machine, linen production, Victorian period

Bleaching, linen production, Victorian period

A twine balling machine, linen production, Victorian period

A twisting frame, linen production, Victorian period

Long stool bundling, linen production, Victorian period

A tow balling machine, linen production, Victorian period

Navajo Indian making a rug on a loom

A Navajo Indian making a rug - early 1900s

Handloom weaver

Hand loom weaver

Hand loom weaver early 1900s

Hand loom weavers

Hand loom weaver / spinner early 1900s

Hand loom weavers early 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

Jacquard loom in a woollen mill in Bradford, Yorkshire, late Victorian period

Box loom in a woollen mill in Bradford, Yorkshire, late Victorian period

Plain coating loom in a woollen mill in Bradford, Yorkshire, late Victorian period

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

Swayne's apparatus for rearing silk worms, and a silk loom Date: 19th century

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

Macclesfield Factory Girl Preparing Warp 1845
Factory girl seated at her frame, preparing the wasp for a power-loom in a large manufacturing town in the county of Chester

Japanese men weaving straw mats, Japan
19th century vintage photograph - Japanese men weaving straw mats on a loom, Japan, c.1880 s

Indian weavers at work, India, c. 1880 s
Indian weavers at work, India, c.1880 s

c. 1880s Japan - weaving on a loom

Spinning silk threads, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Trades in Regency England. Sail cloth, stone quarries and timber for ship building

Trades in Regency England: Grinding cutlery, iron works and flax spinning

Trades in Regency England: basket making, geese plucking and whips

Man weaving cotton on a loom, Senegambia, 18th century. He sits with his legs in a pit, with the warp tied to a large rock, under a mat shade. A weaver. Tisserand negre

Two slatees guard a coffle of enslaved men, Senegal
Two armed Mandinka slatees (slave merchants) guard a coffle of six enslaved men, each wearing a heavy wooden neck collar supported by the man in front. Senegal, West Africa, 1800s

Ancient Flemish loom

Mlle. Loger, first girl to enter world-famous Gobelin works
Mlle. Loger, a seventeen year-old French girl seen at her loom in the Gobelins tapestry works in Paris

Native weaving industry, Cameroon, Central Africa
Two men weaving a mat from long dried reeds or palm leaves on a wooden loom, in Cameroon, Central Africa (formerly in German West Africa). Date: 1922

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