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Textiles Machinery

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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Glass case containing seven specimens of shuttles

Textiles Machinery

Straw splint mill

Textiles Machinery

Four yarn weights, plus weight hook

Textiles Machinery

1883-1893

Leather driving belt and belt clips, for knitting machine

Textiles Machinery

1883-1893

Specimens relating to the production of silk

Textiles Machinery

Pallet box

Textiles Machinery

The cop stand.

Textiles Machinery

c. 1970

17th century spindle wheel

Textiles Machinery

1601-1700

Bobbin-net demonstration machine, constructed by t

Textiles Machinery

c. 1970

Collier lock stitch sewing machine, c. 1874

Textiles Machinery

1874

Gill, from drawing frame

Textiles Machinery

Bobbin winder, made by the Howe Machine Company, N

Textiles Machinery

1881-1890

Piece of sorted flax

Textiles Machinery

Four needle lock stitch sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862

Vibrating shuttle lock stitch hand sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1919

sewing machine attachments

Textiles Machinery

Hole punch, for making jacquard cards

Textiles Machinery

A wooden spindle

Textiles Machinery

Wooden spindle with spun flax thread

Textiles Machinery

A short wooden spindle

Textiles Machinery

Gibson 'Z' type industrial blanket whipping sewing machine.

Textiles Machinery

1850-1970

Enlarged model to show the principle of the knitti

Textiles Machinery

Scottish wool spinning wheel made by W. Waters of

Textiles Machinery

Coloured drawing depicting Lombe's silk throwing m

Textiles Machinery

1857

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

Textiles Machinery

1867-1873

A textile printing block for printing borders, bra

Textiles Machinery

1750-1830

Textile printing block of irregular rectangular sh

Textiles Machinery

1750-1830

Textile printing block, long strip, carved boxwood

Textiles Machinery

1795-1805

Textile printing block, wood, rectangular, with a

Textiles Machinery

1750-1830
Twelve specimens of prepared staples of cottons, mounted on cardboard within a wooden and glass case.

Prepared Staples of Cotton

Textiles Machinery

1900-1914

Spinning Wheel believed to have belonged to Richard Arkwright

Textiles Machinery

Empress "I Move with the Times" lockstitch sewing machine, 1

Textiles Machinery

1880-1890

Flat-topped Loom Weight, Stone Age

Textiles Machinery

5000-500 BCE

Screws from circular knitting machine

Textiles Machinery

Automatic lock stitch button-hole sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1890

11th century coptic textile fragments

Textiles Machinery

1000-1100
Model of a power loom of c. 1860, with belt-driven shuttle, scale 1:6, patented by S. C. Salisbury in 1860.

Model of a power loom

Textiles Machinery

Coptic textile quilted blanket of linen with motif

Textiles Machinery

1400-1500

Yarn guide, for a circular knitting machine

Textiles Machinery

1883-1893

Net making hooks

Textiles Machinery

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Lock stitch sewing machine made by W. F. Thomas, 1853

Textiles Machinery

1853

Card and photograph; coventry ribbon loom inventor and samples

Textiles Machinery

Domestic chain stitch hand sewing machine, made either by th

Textiles Machinery

Lock-stitch treadle sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1861-1868

Weft fork from a power loom

Textiles Machinery

Cotton from the hand powered cottage saw gin

Textiles Machinery

Three synthetic rubber loom pickers

Textiles Machinery

Wooden board, fixing holes both ends

Textiles Machinery

1375-1350 BCE