Weaving Collection (page 2)

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

Huguenot Hand-loom Weaver, Alma Street, Bethnal Green, East London Date: 1921

Interior of a womans home - Durban, South Africa. Decorated weaving and beadwork decorate the walls alongside woven baskets, cookware and necklaces

c. 1880s Japan - weaving on a loom

Young women weaving silk, Japan
19th century vintage photograph: Young women weaving silk, Japan

Making straw mats, Japan
19th century vintage photograph: mat makers weaving straw mats, Japan on a loonm

Trades in Regency England. Carpet weaving, hog feeding
Trades in Regency England. Carpet weaver at a loom in Wilton 16, pig farmer feeding hogs in Hampshire 17, and women knitting and embroidering with needles made in Chichester 18

Trades in Regency England: silk weaving, jewellery and iron forge. Man weaving silk cloth on a loom in Coventry 40, customers in a fancy jewellery shop in Birmingham 41

Trades in Regency England: basket making, geese plucking and whips. Basket-maker weaving willow into baskets and hampers on the Isle of Ely 34

Historical views of Japan. Japanese woman riding in a sedan chair on wheels 22, Japanese Christians forced to step on a crucifix (fumie) in Nagasaki, 17th century 23

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

Advert, John Brown & Son, Glasgow, Scotland
Advert for John Brown & Son, Weaving Factory with Jacquard harness looms, French Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Woven hammock used by the Island Carib or Kalinago people, West Indies. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples

Interior of a house in Unalaska
Interior of an underground Aleut house in Unalaska, with women caring for children and weaving straw goods. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Chinese rope makers, Qing Dynasty. Workers twisting and weaving rope from bamboo on a horizontal frame. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Manchester Municipal Weaving School
The spinning room at the Manchester Municipal Weaving School run by the city council to train young people for work in the textile industry. Date: circa 1894

Basket weaver at work. circa 1800

Araucanian woman weaving, Chile, South America
An Araucanian woman weaving cloth used to make ponchos, southern Chile, South America. Araucania (Araucana) is an indigenous area of Chile inhabited by the Moluche (Mapuche) people. Date: 1922

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

Lyalls patent postive motion loom
James Lyall from New York, showing his new and patent power loom. Date: 1869

Chinese silk - dyeing and weaving
Chinese silk loom, is shown; the figure seated above among the machinery, appears to assist the labour by means of weight. Date: 1833

Textile Industry - Weaving - Mr Austins Engine Loom
British Textile Industry Machinery - Weaving - Mr Austins Engine Loom. Date: 1814

Traditional customs, Portugal -- people in the open air, working on a large weaving frame. Inset top left is a large building, the Grand Hotel Central. Date: circa 1900s

Local women and girls weaving straw, , Madeira. Date: circa 1900s

Algerian Basket Weavers Date: circa 1909

Weaving at Spitalfields, England, Industry and Idleness
Industry and Idleness by William Hogarth, showing weaving at Spitalfields, England, contrasting the discipline of one apprentice with the slovenly behaviour of another. Date: First published 1747

Lancashire, England - Textile Cotton Mill worker and looms. Date: circa 1905

Japan - Ainu woman weaving. Date: circa 1920s

Blind Basket-Makers in London 1871
Group of blind men weaving baskets in a London workshop. Date: 1871

Palm Sunday Procession in Spitalfields, London, 1844
Palm Sunday procession in Spitalfields, London, 1844. On Palm Sundays, at that time, members of the weaving trade (then flourishing in Spitalfields) would walk out to the Essex fields

Hauling home, wedding party in Ireland 1870
Hauling Home, generally refers to the old ceremony of escorting the bride and groom to the couples home after a wedding.. Date: 1870

Brussels Carpet Loom, Glasgow 1843
Scotch carpet factory. Date: 1843

Persian Rug Making, Glasgow 1843
A weaver operates a Persian rug-making loom at a Glasgow carpet factory. Date: 1843

Harrison & Sons power loom 1862 Harrison & Sons power loom 1862
Harrison & Sons power-loom for weaving flax. Date: 1862

INDIAN TEXTILE WORKER
Women in India are much in demand in the weaving industry, where they are considered more skilled than men. Strict rules forbid them from working at night. Date: 1937

COTTON WEAVING 1902
Women weave at looms. Date: 1902

MAORI WOMAN WEAVING
A Maori woman weaving the Kataika Date: 1911

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

PIMA BASKET MAKER
A Pima woman of Arizona makes her baskets from the fibre of the yucca plant, weaving them from the centre outwards Date: 1908

NATIVE AMERICAN WEAVING
Elle of Ganado, New Mexico, of the Navaho people, weaves a blanket in the traditional manner Date: 1908

WEAVING IN SANDWICH SHOP
Sandwich woven fabric being made in the weaving shop of Josper Peanson and Staff, Sandwich, Kent. Date: circa 1930

WEAVING ON A HAND LOOM
A woman weaving on a hand loom. Date: circa 1930

Egypt - Spinning
Weaving in Ancient Egypt Date: ANCIENT EGYPT

Blind Basket-Makers in London 1900
Blind basket-makers at work in Tottenham Court Road, London. Date: 1900

WEAVING, ENGLAND
A young woman uses a small loom in the north of England Date: 1888

WEAVING WOOL, WALES
Using the loom in a small Welsh cloth mill, serving local sheep-farmers who provide the wool from which the cloth is made Date: 1873

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