Dixon's Bobbin Mill, Steeton, Near Keighley

Gelatine silver reproduction print entitled 'Dixon's Bobbin Mill, Steeton, Near Keighley' by Ian Beesley. Produced for the commission `Through the Mill:, The Story of Yorkshire Wool in Photographs'.1985-1987'.

Different spinning frames twist the fibres in different ways but they all eventually need to wind the yarn on to a wooden bobbin. Here all the paraphenlia of bobbin making clutters the workbench of a West Yorkshire bobbin makers.

[Table 70: Through the Mill - The Story of Yorkshire Wool in Photographs, by Ian Beesley and Introduction by Gary Firth]