Textiles Collection (page 31)

Spinning (Diderot)
winding and spinning in 18th century France

Spinning, Greece
A woman of Ancient Greece spinning by hand

Weaving, Bronze Age
Rudimentary spinning, and quite sophisticated weaving, as practised during the Bronze Age

Weaver at his Loom
A weaver at his loom, which is drawn with unusual attention to detail - including his clogs, showing that he operates the treadles barefoot

WEAVING 1568
A weaver at his loom; his wife is arriving with fresh hanks of wool

WEAVING 1658
A weaver at his loom

German Weaver 1699
A German weaver at his loom

Irish Spinners
A visitor enters an Irish cabin and finds that nine women have brought their wheels to spin and reel together

Jersey Spinning Wheel
An Englishwoman using a Jersey spinning-wheel to spin wool which has been carded with the cards lying at her feet

Spinning, Holland
A Dutch woman at her spinning wheel, with hanks of thread at her feet

Distaff Spinning
Spinning cotton with a distaff, in an English cottage

Spinning, Saxony Wheel
A woman spins wool on a Saxony type of spinning wheel

Spinning, Wales
A Welshwoman in traditional dress poses rather self- consciously outside her cottage with a spinning wheel

Spinning, Ireland
An old Irishwoman at her spinning-wheel

Spinning, Scotland
A girl spins with a distaff outside a Scottish cottage

Spinning, Austria
A Rockensitz - literally, a distaff session - among peasant women in lower Austria; the old lady tells stories as she spins, the young ones listen

Spinning, Flanders
a Flemish housewife at her elaborate and elegant spinning wheel

Spinning, Canada
and carding in a Canadian home

C17 Spinning
A country wife spins at her cottage door, watching hunters and travellers as they pass by

Spinning Wool 1930S
Two old dames using combs and and a traditional spinning wheel to spin wool which will be used on a hand loom, Sandwich, Kent, England

German Women Spinning
A pretty scene in a German village, where old world crafts such as spinning with spinning wheels are still practised. Note the hand- embroidered head-dresses

Weaving a Tapestry
A woman weaving a tapestry of Arms of the Weavers of London 1700 on a wooden hand loom

Using a Spinning Wheel
A young woman spinning wool on a spinning wheel to be woven into very light summer coats

Weaving on a Hand Loom
A woman using a table hand loom, which apparently can weave anything in any type of pattern

Fantasy Looms
The humble artisan toils at his loom - and lo ! he weaves a creation of beauty !

Liebig / Cotton 5
Baling cotton in an American cotton mill

Liebig / Cotton 4
Checking the quality of the fibres in an American cotton mill

Liebig / Cotton 2
Plowing the field and sowing in India

Liebig / Cotton 1
Breaking the soil in Africa for cotton cultivation

Cotton Factory Interior
Interior of a cotton factory

Cotton Loom
Working on a cotton loom

Roman Spinning, Weaving
Roman women spinning and weaving, depicted in contemporary sculptures

Furniture Exhibition
Poster for an Exhibition of Textiles and Furniture designed by students of Bradford School of Arts & Crafts (2 of 2)

C14 Spinning
Spinning wool at Amiens in the Middle Ages

Cotton Harvest, Savannah
Harvesting cotton at Savannah, Georgia [from a photograph]

Wool Shearer C16
Cutting and shearing wool

Whitneys Gin
WHITNEYs COTTON GIN which enabled cotton fibre to be separated from the seeds mechanically

Arkwrights Spinning
ARKWRIGHTs SPINNING MACHINE The first machine to enable spinning to be done by machine

Cartwrights Loom
CARTWRIGHTs POWER LOOM Edmund Cartwrights steam- powered loom of 1785 enabled weaving to be carried out at vastly greater speed

Cromptons Mule Jenny
CROMPTONs MULE JENNY Samuel Cromptons spinning mule of 1779 had a moving carriage carrying the spindles

Tending Textile Machines
Interior of cotton mill with man and woman bending over spinning machines

Industry / Textiles / Cotton
A cotton gin in the southern United States

Industry / Textiles / Linen
The linen industry at County Down, Ireland : Breaking and scutching by machinery (plate 4 of 10)

Industry / Textiles
Ethiopian weavers

Cotton Workers, India
Cotton workers, India

Lace making at home in Caen, Normandy, France
Lace making at home in Caen, Normandy, northern France

Phoenicians and Wares
Phoenican merchants examine wares

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