Yarn Collection (page 2)

A damping machine, linen production, Victorian period

Inspecting linen, linen production, Victorian period

A beaming machine, linen production, Victorian period

A drawing machine, linen production, Victorian period

A dressing machine, linen production, Victorian period

Warping, linen production, Victorian period

A squeezing machine, linen production, Victorian period

Bleaching, linen production, Victorian period

A twine balling machine, linen production, Victorian period

A twisting frame, linen production, Victorian period

Long stool bundling, linen production, Victorian period

A tow balling machine, linen production, Victorian period

Yarn Market, Dunster, Exmoor, Somerset - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

The Yarn Market and view toward the Castle, Dunster, Somerset

Beauty of Japan's Textiles - the young woman on the left, holding a battledore, is in formal New Year's Day dress. The one on the right is in a homongi, a costume suitable for paying visits

Advert for Celanese, a chemical and speciality materials company whose products included acetate yarn and artificial silk. Date: 1943

Women working in cramped conditions spinning yarn. Date: 1883

Girl of Granada of the poorest class during the Islamic era, Emirate of Granada (1238-1492).. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Los combatientes necesitan prendas de abrigo (Fighters need warm clothes). Poster ob the International Red Help. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Historico Nacional

The Yarn Market, Dunster by Terry Whitworth

Japan - machinery, for spinning thread, yarn
Vintage 19th century photograph: Japan - machinery, for spinning thread, yarn

Man and woman of the Isle of Santorini, Greece, 1818. The man wears jacket, sash and harem pants. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Vennings A Geographical Present being Descriptions

Private quarters of an Ottoman official. Officials in robes sit on a divan in a large carpeted room. Appartement d un ministre de la Porte

Advert, Fleisher Knitting Wool. 1922

Advert, John Todd & Son, Rope Manufacturers, Rutherglen
Advert for John Todd & Son, Rope and Twine Manufacturers and Yarn Spinners, Rutherglen, Scotland. 1905

An organ grinder and a poodle with spinning machine before an audience of fashionable women in bonnets with plumes, shawls and lace dresses

Young man in chenille yarn jacket, cravat, gloves, trousers, top hat and stick. When fashions appear strange or embarrassing, I recall the hammer wigs, wide-sleeve coats, arabesque embroidery

Russian serfs or peasantry, 18th century
Russian serfs or peasantry. A peasant in travel clothes with hat, shirt, boots and bark shoes, and women spinning yarn and washing clothes

View of the village of Nikali, Thessaly, Greece, 1821
View of the village of Nikali, near Larissa, the capital of Thessaly, Greece. Villagers draw water from a well, a man plays a lute, women spin and weave. Copied from Edward Dodwells Views of Greece

Native Americans of Paraguay converted by Jesuits shown wearing clothes, plowing the land, spinning yarn, and living in a timber house with a shrine to the Virgin Mary and Jesus

Batting machine used in cotton manufacture, 18th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by James Burton from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts

Woman spinner in bonnet and apron spinning wool yarn on a spinning machine. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Wool comber using heated wool combs to pull a fine sliver of wool to be spun into yarn. Washed raw wool in a basket, and a clay comb-pot to heat the combs in the foreground

Woman spinning yarn on a spinning wheel in front of a cottage. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Wool-comber combing out wool remove short fibres. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Rope maker twisting rope yarns together on a rope walk while an apprentice turns a wheel to revolve the hook. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades

Sailor spinning a yarn to fisherman and fisherwoman
Sailor spinning a yarn to a fisherman and a fisherwoman, Ilfracombe, Devon. 1906

The Kitchener Coffin Hoax: Frank Power, freelance journalist
The Kitchener Coffin Hoax: Frank Power (real name Arthur Vectis Freeman), freelance journalist. who earned notoriety as the author of the Great Kitchener Yarn - Power claimed to have brought

Advert, Haig & Vince, The Scotch Warehouse
Advert, Haig & Vince, Highland Costume Makers, Juvenile Outfitters, The Scotch Warehouse, Oxford Street, London. 1879

Tompkins yarn spooler 1875
Floor standing yarn spooler, simple construction for winding skein yarn upon spools for sewing machines, intended principally for hosiery manufactures. 1875

Advert for Lastex womens corset 1934
Model wearing a corset with elastic. Date: 1934

Advert for Viyella, womens motoring headscarf 1908
Miss Kitty Gordon wearing Viyella gauntlers. Date: 1908

Silk-doublers at work 1843
Female silk doublers at their wheels at the Old Silk Mill, Derby. Date: 1843

Thaxted, Essex showing the old Yarn Market. Date: 1950s

Fisherman, Loire, France
Fisherman wearing a beret fishes from the banks of Loire River near Saint-Mathurin-sur-Loire. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Advert for Chilprufe wool underwear for children 1941
The children must have Chilprufe. Our difficulty is to make the small ration of wool we are allowed go round. We have, therefore decided as a wartime policy to suspend production of womens

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

The Village, Dunster, Somerset
The Village, Dunster, Minehead, near Carhampton, Somerset, England. Showing the Yarn Market Date: 1910s

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