Thread Collection (page 2)

MISCELLANEOUS LOCKS
A selection of lock systems and mechanisms. Date: 1797

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

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

Puck on spiders thread
Puck seated on a spiders thread. Date: 1920

Itinerant doorstep peddlar / seller of accoutrement for sewing
Itinerant doorstep peddlar/seller of accoutrement for sewing. Date: 1920s

The hands of sailmaker William Leitch, in his sail loft
The calloused working hands of sailmaker William Leitch, of East Loch Tarbert, Scotland. William is the third generation of sailmakers to work from the old sail loft in Tarbert on the West Coast of

Jones Sewing Machine - By Royal Appointment
Jones Sewing Machine - by Royal Appointment to both the former Queen Alexandra and current (then ) Queen Mary. Date: circa 1910s

Syrian Textile Weaver at work on his loom - Damascus. Date: circa 1920

Anti-German cartoon, map of Europe, WW1
The tailors of strafe street. An anti-German cartoon showing the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and his son, Crown Prince Wilhelm, in a tailors shop during the First World War

Puppet theatre with marionettes, 18th c. Early Modern Era. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Ca Rezzonico

Lullingstone Silk Farm, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire
Skilled Silk Operator at her reeling machine at the Lullingstone Silk Farm, Ayot, House, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire. Date: circa 1930s

Kabyle Olive Oil Press - North Eastern Algeria
A quite outstanding postcard (incredible detail) showing an olive oil press in operation in the Kabyle Region of Algeria. The Kabyle people are Berbers from North Eastern Algeria - estimated

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

Algeria - Nomadic Women performing cooking and textile tasks outside their tent. Date: circa 1910s

Grenadier cap, officers, 43rd Regiment of Foot, 1740-1749. Metal and silk thread embroidery on velvet and wool. This officers cap displays the white horse and motto of the house of Hanover

Peter Deane, expert fly dresser -- close-up as he begins to construct a salmon fly. He taught himself the skill from a book after being confined to a wheelchair by polio

Suffragette W. S. P. U Regalia Flag
A W.S.P.U flag or pennant in purple, white and green silk. At one end is a square additional section (24cm x 24cm) in cream silk with beautifully embroidered laurel wreath with purple ribbon bow at

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

Cornish Grandmother repairs her Grandsons Clothing
No more Flora for you my Son!. A Cornish Grandmother takes her Grandson over her knee to repair his torn shorts, the result of too much enthusiastic running through the undergrowth

Advert / Anchor Thread 2 / 2
Clarks Anchor Thread - skipping (2 of 2)

16Thc Drawing Room Scene
A noblewoman works at her embroidery while her daughter winds the silk thread, in the drawing room at Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire

Bedfordshire Lace School. Date: circa 1905

Sailmaker at work, Penzance, Cornwall
An elderly sailmaker (Arthur Willoughby), working in the traditional way in Penzance, Cornwall. circa early 1980s

Snap Playing Cards - Tailor - Stephen Stitch. circa 1930s

Needlewoman wearing a pretty hand-made embroidered frock
A young woman working on her needlework frame wearing a fancy frock, hand-made and embroidered with Clarks Anchor thread. Her kitten plays with a ball of wool. Date: 1923

Young stylish lady playing with her little black kitten
A young stylish lady wearing a set of Marshall & Snelgrove pyjamas in white crepe-de-chine (with black floral embroidered motifs), playing with her little black kitten with a cotton reel and thread

Silk Manufacture in China. 19th century

Susi and friend with knitting and sewing things, getting everything into a mess. 1950s

Greetings card in the shape of a reel of cotton
Greetings card in the shape of a reel of white cotton with a needle. Date: circa 1890s

Two kittens sewing on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two kittens with cotton reel on a cutout Christmas card
Two kittens with a cotton reel on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Susi - under the sewing box. 1950s

Susi - with ball of wool and sewing things
Susi - with a ball of wool and sewing things. 1950s

Florence Upton playing cards - Making Clothes. circa 1900s

A variety of Puppies eyeing up a basket of threads of various colours - ripe for being distributed around the room with glee! Date: 1912

Wm. Barbour and Sons Linen Thread Works, Dunmurry - a view of the factory. (Location: Northern Ireland: [County Antrim] : [County Londonderry] (could be either): Dunmurry). Date: circa early 1900s

Man at work repairing a saddle
Man at work repairing something on a saddle, London horseguards. Date: circa 1960s

China - Young Street Tailor Girls. Date: circa 1906

Myanmar - A weaver at work using a wooden frame loom Date: circa 1910

Willem van Heythuysen (1585-1650), by Frans Hals (1580-1666)
Frans Hals (1580-1666). Dutch painter. Portrait of Willem van Heythuysen (1585-1650). 1625-1630. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Bust of Painful Virgin, ca. 1755, by Francisco Salzillo (1707
Francisco Salzillo (1707-1783). Spanish sculptor. Painful Virgin. Ca. 1755. Museum of Albacete. Spain

Tinker, Tailor playing card - Tailor, Stephen Stitch. 20th century

The Spinner by Pierre Adolphe Huas
The Spinner. circa 1870s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Jack Tar the Sailors Wife. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Putt the Golfers Wife. circa 1930s

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