Gelatine silver print entitled ''Pirns', Silk Department, Lister's Mill, Bradford' by Ian Beesley. Produced for the commission `Through the Mill:, The Story of Yorkshire Wool in Photographs'.1985-1987'.
The wound bobbins in the foreground are 'pirns' (packages of weft yarn which fit the shuttle of the automatic pirn-changing looms).
[Table 60: Through the Mill - The Story of Yorkshire Wool in Photographs, by Ian Beesley and Introduction by Gary Firth]
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- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1991-5061/98
- type:
- silver gelatin print
- credit:
- The National Media Museum, Bradford
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