'Patterns' - Salt's Mill

Ian Beesley/Science Museum Group
© Ian Beesley

Gelatine silver print entitled ''Patterns' - Salt's Mill' by Ian Beesley. Produced for the commission `Through the Mill:, The Story of Yorkshire Wool in Photographs'. 1985-1987'.

This storage unit is packed with Jacquard weaving programmes which consists of a series of punched cards for weaving complex figure patterns in the loom devised by a French silk weaver in 1801.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
2026-2/100
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 405 mm x 485 mm
type:
photograph and silver gelatin print
credit:
The National Media Museum, Bradford