Dixon's Bobbin Mill, Steeton, Near Keighley

PART OF:
Through The Mill: The Story of Yorkshire Wool In Photographs
Made:
1985-1987 in Steeton
photographer:
Ian Beesley
Dixon's Bobbin Mill, Steeton, Near Keighley

Ian Beesley/Science Museum Group
© Ian Beesley

Gelatine silver reproduction print entitled 'Dixon's Bobbin Mill, Steeton, Near Keighley' by Ian Beesley. Signed in ink on the back. 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.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
2026-2/104
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 290 mm x 370 mm
image: 275 mm x 357 mm
type:
silver gelatin print and reproduction
credit:
The National Media Museum, Bradford

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