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Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Power loom

Textiles Machinery

1926

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

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

Textiles Machinery

1865-1883

Early Wheeler and Wilson hand-powered lock stitch sewing mac

Textiles Machinery

A Singer model 66 lock stitch oscillating hook sewing machin

Textiles Machinery

1908-1909

Textile printing block, rectangular

Textiles Machinery

1760-1775 probable date

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

Textiles Machinery

1913-1914

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

Textiles Machinery

1874
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

Textiles Machinery

1842-1858

Spinning wheel from Tyrol

Textiles Machinery

Casablancas high draft spinning unit, 1935

Textiles Machinery

1935
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
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

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Willcox and Gibbs chainstitch sewing machine, 1877-1904.

Textiles Machinery

1877-1904

Specimens of linen, 1783-1784.

Textiles Machinery

1783-1784

Ring spinning frame, 1926.

Textiles Machinery

1926
J.Weir's chain stitch sewing machine, model no. 55S of 1872.

Weir sewing machine, 1872.

Textiles Machinery

1872

Portable spinning wheel, labelled 'James Webster,

Textiles Machinery

1745-1790

A la memoire de J.M. Jacquard

Textiles Machinery

1839

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

Textiles Machinery

1867-1873

Closed spindle type bobbin winder for lace, with s

Textiles Machinery

Spinning wheel, Lapland, 1879 with carved distaff

Textiles Machinery

1879

Industrial sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

Spinning Wheel, British, 1801-1850

Textiles Machinery

1801-1850

Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.

Textiles Machinery

1886-1887

Judkin's lock-stitch sewing machine, 1851.

Textiles Machinery

1851

Grover and Baker two-thread chain-stitch sewing machine, 1871.

Textiles Machinery

1871

Howe lock-stitch sewing machine, c 1888.

Textiles Machinery

1883
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

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Model (scale 1:6) of hand warping mill for small q

Textiles Machinery

Wood blocks for printing English chintz and calico designs

Textiles Machinery

1750-1830

Lock stitch sewing machine head with step feed for sewing le

Textiles Machinery

1888

Spinning wheel, French

Textiles Machinery

Lock stitch ' family' oscillating shuttle sewing m

Textiles Machinery

1885-1890

Passap M 201 flat bed domestic knitting machine, c

Textiles Machinery

1950

No. 9 lockstitch sewing machine head, by the Wheel

Textiles Machinery

1888

Electric circuit board associated with a Singer Futura sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1976

Model of Brunel's cotton winding machine.

Textiles Machinery

1800-1802

Specimens relating to the production of silk

Textiles Machinery

Bobbin-net demonstration machine, constructed by t

Textiles Machinery

c. 1970

Four needle lock stitch sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

Textile printing block, wood, rectangular, with a

Textiles Machinery

1750-1830