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Machinery and other objects - from carding engines and looms to printing blocks and fabric specimens - tell the story of Britain's role in textile manufacturing from the Industrial Revolution onwards.

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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Power loom

Textiles Machinery

1926

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Old Spitalfields hand loom

Textiles Machinery

1810

Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.

Textiles Machinery

1886-1887

Weaving power loom shuttle

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830.

Textiles Machinery

1830

Singer 'New Family' sewing machine, 1865-1883.

Textiles Machinery

1865-1883

Portable spinning wheel

Textiles Machinery

1745-1790

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

Textiles Machinery

1867

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

Textiles Machinery

1874
Carding machine by Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792), England, 1771-1780. Believed to be from Cromford Mill, Derbyshire.

Carding machine by Arkwright, 1775, believed to be from Cromford Mill

Textiles Machinery

1771-1780

Willcox and Gibbs chain-stitch sewing machine, c 1914.

Textiles Machinery

1913-1914

Jones lock-stitch sewing machine, 1879-1909

Textiles Machinery

1879-1909

Textile printing block, rectangular

Textiles Machinery

1760-1775 probable date

Early hand-powered lock stitch sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

A Singer model 66 lock stitch oscillating hook sewing machin

Textiles Machinery

1908-1909

Model of Brunel's cotton winding machine.

Textiles Machinery

1800-1802

A la memoire de J.M. Jacquard

Textiles Machinery

1839
Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son, Blackburn, England and fitted with the loose reed emergency stop mechanism of 1842. Exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and subsequently modified by the makers with design changes up to 1858.

Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son

Textiles Machinery

1842-1858
Singer Lockstitch sewing machine model of 1851, by I. M. Singer and Company or the Singer Manufacturing Company, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 1851-1855

Example of original pattern Singer sewing machine of 1851, made c. 1853.

Textiles Machinery

1851-1855

Willcox and Gibbs chainstitch sewing machine, 1877-1904.

Textiles Machinery

1877-1904
Original Remington Arms lock-stitch sewing machine head: the 'Empire' model of 1870, by the Remington Arms Company, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 1870.

Remington Arms Company lock-stitch sewing machine, 1870.

Textiles Machinery

1870

Table sewing machine made by Nothmann of Berlin

Textiles Machinery

1900

Judkin's lock-stitch sewing machine, 1851.

Textiles Machinery

1851

Spinning wheel, English 17th or 18th century

Textiles Machinery

Wood blocks for printing English chintz and calico designs

Textiles Machinery

1750-1830

Dorcas lock-stitch domestic sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1868

Howe lock-stitch sewing machine, c 1888.

Textiles Machinery

1883
J.Weir's chain stitch sewing machine, model no. 55S of 1872.

Weir sewing machine, 1872.

Textiles Machinery

1872

Record hand knitter no. E24648

Textiles Machinery

Lock stitch ' family' oscillating shuttle sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1885-1890

Passap M 201 flat bed domestic knitting machine

Textiles Machinery

1950

Spinning Wheel, British, 1801-1850

Textiles Machinery

1801-1850

Specimen of artificial silk

Textiles Machinery

1883

Scottish wool spinning wheel made by W. Waters of Wick

Textiles Machinery

Peg frame

Textiles Machinery

Singer double-thread chainstitch glove sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1915-1920

Ring spinning frame, 1926.

Textiles Machinery

1926

Straw splint mill

Textiles Machinery

17th century spindle wheel

Textiles Machinery

1601-1700

The 'Little Wanzer' lock stitch sewing machine, 1867-1873.

Textiles Machinery

1867-1873

Automatic lock stitch button-hole sewing machine by Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co.

Textiles Machinery

1890

Domestic hand powered Frister and Rossmann vibrating shuttle lock stitch sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

c. 1910

Model hand loom for weaving sacks (and so on) without a seam (scale 1:8)

Textiles Machinery

prob year of patent 1802

"Speedweve" patent darner, c.1950

Textiles Machinery