Gelatine silver print entitled 'Dixon's Bobbin Mill, Steeton, near Keighley' by Ian Beesley. Prodiced 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]
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1991-5061/61
- type:
- silver gelatin print
- credit:
- The National Media Museum, Bradford
