Spinning Collection (page 4)

SOCIAL / BELGIUM SPINNER
A Flemish interior, with an old lady of Renaix spinning by hand in her sitting room Date: 1950

ITALIAN WOOL SPINNING
In a region near Venice, spinning has not died out, as performed here by an old woman. People in this area have done this for the last six centuries. Date: 1930

RACIAL TYPES / SCOTS CARD
A Scotswoman in her cottage cards wool, preparatory to spinning it into thread Date: 1848

WOOL PROCESSING
Processing wool: spinning, reeling, warping & weaving. Date: 18th century

FAMILY WORKS AT HOME
Diligence - all the family at work; spinning and drawing

Marshalls Flax Mill, Leeds
Exterior of Marshalls Flax Mill, Leeds. Date: 1855

Egypt - Spinning
Weaving in Ancient Egypt Date: ANCIENT EGYPT

Old woman spinning in her cottage
An old cottage woman spins with a distaff at her fireside. Date: circa 17th century

SPINNING, BELGIUM
A Flemish interior, with an old lady of Renaix spinning by hand in her sitting room Date: 1950

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

Iron Age Spinning
Early spinning and weaving, probably during the Iron Age Date: circa 500 BC

ANTISS SPINNING WHEEL
Antisss improved spinning wheel Date: 1797

Postman of Montenegro
A postman of Montenegro brings a letter to a housewife as she sits at her spinning wheel. Date: circa 1900

GLASS WORKS, 1830
An old English glassworks - blowing and spinning glass around the furnace Date: circa 1830

TEXTILES / SPINNING
Hand spinning Date: 1760

Cotton Mule Spinning 1835
Interior of cotton factory: mule spinning, Lancashire, child sweeps inside moving machine. Date: 1835

Ring Spinning. Manufacturing process of cotton yarn. 19th ce
Textile Industry. 19th century. Ring Spinning. Manufacturing process of cotton yarn. Women working in the roving. Colored engraving

Samuel Crompton - 2
SAMUEL CROMPTON Engineer, inventor of the spinning mule. Date: 1753 - 1827

The Story of Rumpelstiltskin. From Playhour (1959)

Hargreaves Spinning Jenny plans Date: C. 1764

Children playing on an umbrella roundabout
A group of children playing on an umbrella style roundabout on Lindfield Common, Sussex, England

Textile workers early 1900s

Old English Sheepdog turned into wool, Cornwall
An Old English Sheepdog with its enterprising owners, who spin its longhaired coat into balls of wool for knitting, at home in Mullion, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Carpet Weavers at work. Date: 1911

Study of Leonardo da Vinci. Mechanical loom. 15th century
Renaissance. Study of Leonardo da Vinci. Weaving machines. Mechanical loom. 15th century. Model. The Science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Ramsden electric machine designed by Jesse Ramsden (1735-18
Ramsden electric machine used for producing electricity. It was designed by Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800), English optician and astronomical and scientific instrument maker

Boys playing a game, Balham, SW London
A group of boys sitting in a circle, playing a game (spin the bottle), on a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Spain (19th c. ). Economy (1885)
SPAIN. Barcelona. Sants Montjuic. Textile company La Espa񡠉 ndustrial, dedicated to spinning, weaving and printing of cotton. Founded in 1847 in Madrid and moved to Barcelona in 1851

Cyprus - Women Spinning wool
Cyprus - Cypriot Women Spinning wool and working at a loom. Date: circa 1906

Japan - Silk Industry - Weaving the silk on a loom - seemingly at an exhibition. Date: circa 1909

South Korea - Joseon Province - Weaving and Spinning
South Korea - Joseon (Chosen, Choson) Province - Women Weaving and Spinning. Date: circa 1920s

A Tunisian Arab Woman spinning wool using a hand spindle Date: 1908

Vietnamese Silk Weaver - Loom
Vietnam - Spinning silk thread on a wheel and weaving the tread on a loom. Date: 1910s

Hill Man and Woman - Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India
Hill Man and Woman at Mussoorie, a hill station and a municipal board in the Dehradun District of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Date: 1905

Algeria - Biskra - Nomadic Encampment. Date: circa 1906

Prisoners spinning yarn - Yerwada Jail, India
Prisoners spinning yarn - Yerwada Jail, Pune, India (Gandhi was imprisoned here for a time, spinning thread whilst imprisoned). Date: circa 1908

Rope Making Factory
The spinning room in Frost Brothers factory, Shadwell, England. Date: circa 1885

Cinderella meets a princess at a spinning wheel
A composite illustration of two childrens stories -- Prince Charming fits the glass slipper on Cinderella (right), and a prince encounters a princess (possibly Princess Aurora)

Radomir, Bulgaria, in the Pernik Province - a woman spinning wool and a unisex Gymnasium

Spinning top
Small girl playing with a spinning top in the 1920s

Frau Holle - 1
The stepdaughter spinning at the well, where her adventure begins

Edmund Cartwright
EDMUND CARTWRIGHT Inventor of the powered loom

Model in strapless full-skirted dress with bow
Model in an unusual pose, spinning to show off the large silk bow on her new look strapless full-skirted dress. Date: circa 1951

Client: Linzi Dresses Ltd. - Trio of models
Client: Linzi Dresses Ltd. - Three models posing in colourful lace evening dresses - Models: S Lynch, H Dehn and H Bunny (?) - Shoot Date: August 27, 1956. (2/2) Date: 1956

The Count of Luxembourg adapted by Basil Hood. The staircase is in Grand Duke Rutzinovs reception hall. (Act II). Naturally, Adele and the impoverished Count fall in love

Cottage interior, Skansen open air museum, Sweden
Cottage interior from Bollnas, Halsingland, at the Skansen open air museum, Sweden. Date: circa 1920

Scottish Highlander and woman spinning. circa early 19th century

Cow & Gate Snap - Here comes the delivery boy! circa 1930s

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