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.
Textiles Machinery
1948-1958
1970
1860-1867
1919
1850-1970
1750-1830
1857
1871
1939
1976
1875-1892
prob year of patent 1802
1864
1800
1870
5000-500 BCE
1867-1886
1870-1880
1885-1886
1868
1858-1862
1890-1950
1877-1904
1888
1851
1769-1775
1980-1985
1885-1890
1950
1879-1894
1850
1896-1900
1879-1909
1801-1850
1820-1824