Weaving Collection (page 6)

Sardinian Women
Women of Sardinia, Italy, weaving fishing nets. Date: 1930s

Collection of Northwestern Indian Baskets Date: 1910

Sierra Leone, West Africa - Cotton Weaver at work in the open air. On wet days, the weaving is done in a Barri or working shed. Date: circa 1910s

Roberts and Coppocks Improvement in Looms for Weaving
Technical drawing of an invention, patented in 1855, by Roberts and Coppock, consisting of an improved arrangement of parts for letting the yarn off the warp beam in a weaving loom

Gipsies on Putney Common, London. Date: 1870

Russian Basket Maker Date: circa 1907

Weaving Curtains
Fairies weaving curtains from leaves

Stocking Weavers C. 1760
Two workers at their weaving looms in a stocking factory and a description of the machine itself. Date: circa 1760

Female wool weaving operators, Yorkshire
Female wool weaving operators tend their machines at a Yorkshire factory

Three large woven beach chairs at the seaside
Three large basketwork beach chairs on a beach in Belgium, with two people sitting inside them. They are designed to give maximum shade from the hot sun

An ideal walking holiday in Kent, with Cooks
Cover illustration for an ideal walking holiday in Kent, a quite different holiday, walking and weaving, with Cooks, showing a young couple walking arm in arm, with the Stair House Hotel

Silk weaving on a loom - Japan

Macedonia - Woman working at a loom
Bitolao (Bukovo), Macedonia - Jolly weaver woman, working at her loom, making pale mats

Weaving - Southern Algeria
Southern Algeria - Sahara - Goubi Women from Kames weaving on a lightweight loom in the shade of a palm tree at an oasis

Basketry - Algeria
Two Algerian men weaving a very large (and rather magnificent) straw basket

School of Carpet Making
A pupil at the School of Carpet-making run by Madame Delfau

Threads entering a weaving machine
A woman factory worker in blue uniform feeds light blue thread into a large piece of (possibly weaving?) machinery at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Turkish Basketmaker - Diarbekir, Turkey
Basketmaker from Diarbekir, Turkey. Largest town in the Kurdistan Highlands on the Tigris - 194 miles notheast of Aleppo on highway between Baghdad and Constantinople

Weaver and admirer - Florence Hardy
Weaving a web deeper than friendship. An amorous advance by a young man toward a lady weaver working at her spinning wheel

Somali Woman - Coronation Exhibition
A Somali Woman weaving in the entrance to her reed hut - an exhibit at the Coronation Exhibition of 1911 in London

Riverside scene - Pakistan
A Pakistani man gathering tall reeds/rushes growing alongside a small stream. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Turkey - Basket Seller
A Basket Seller - Turkey

Nomads making rugs in the desert, Tunisia
Nomads making rugs in the desert in front of their low tents, Tunisia

Young Girl from Burma (Myanmar) standing in front of a stunning woven reed wall

Mersin, Turkey - Basket-making
Basket-makers at Mersin. A large city and a busy port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey and is the capital of the Mersin Province

Isparta - Turkey
Isparta - famour for rugs and growing roses which are distilled into Attar of Roses which is used in the perfume trade to this day

Carpet Production at Kula
Kula, Turkey. Women and children make carpets on a large loom, while two men in fez hats oversee proceedings. Renowned for volcanic rock formations as well as carpets

Machinery at Lyon
At Lyon, Napoleon and Eugenie admire the weaving machinery, and Eugenie embroiders a flower : Napoleon is an enthusiastic advocate of industry and commerce

Work School for Blind
Men and women at a work school for the blind in Euston Road, London; some read Braille books, one man weaves baskets

Greek Weaving Etc
Weaving and tapestry among the ancient Greeks

Arab Weaving
Charlemagne receives gifts of fabrics from Haroun-al- Raschid, Caliph of Baghdad

Primitive Spinning Etc
Spinning and weaving among the lake-dwellers of prehistoric Europe

Sandwich Weavers
A woman weaver making woven fabric in Jasper Pearsons shop at Sandwich, Kent, England. Date: early 1930s

Canterbury Weavers
Women weavers weaving at their looms in Canterbury, Kent, England

Basket Making
A man weaving willow baskets by hand

Navajo Woman Weaving
A Native American Navajo woman weaving

Weaving and Spinning
Spinning, weaving, sewing, all in progress in this industrious household

Penelope Spinning
Penelope, wife of Odysseus, has promised to re-marry when she finishes her weaving : so each night she undoes what she has done during the day

Apache Basketmaker
An Apache woman of the American southeast sits inside the basket she is making, weaving it from inside out : it will be used to store grain or vegetables

Pima Basket Maker
A Pima woman of Arizona makes her baskets from the fibre of the yucca plant, weaving them from the centre outwards

Learning to Weave
A girl learning to weave on a loom at the London County Council Handicraft School

C17 Loom / Woodcut / Colour
A weaver at his loom

Basket Weaving, 1867
Victorian basket weavers at work

Silk Ceremony / China
The Empress & her attendants proceed to the temple from the Mulberry grove during the annual ceremony commemorating the invention of silk weaving

Scottish Weaver
The Weavers Shop An old Scottish man sits at his loom

Weaving in China
A woman working at a large wooden framed loom in China

Gobelins Tapestry, Dore
Weaving tapestry at Les Gobelins, in the 13th arrondissement, Paris

Maori Woman Weaving
A Maori woman weaving the Kataika

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