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Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Weaving power loom shuttle

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862

Power loom

Textiles Machinery

1926

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Weaving power loom shuttle

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862

Textile printing block, rectangular

Textiles Machinery

1760-1775 probable date

Early Wheeler and Wilson hand-powered lock stitch sewing mac

Textiles Machinery

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

Textiles Machinery

1874

Textile printing block, wood, rectangular, with a

Textiles Machinery

1750-1830

Printing block, 1976.

Textiles Machinery

1976

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

Textiles Machinery

1913-1914

Specimens of linen, 1783-1784.

Textiles Machinery

1783-1784

Bobbin Box of a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.

Textiles Machinery

1886-1887

Rectangular shaped textile printing block, wooden

Textiles Machinery

1750-1830

Textile printing block, boxwood face on wooden bac

Textiles Machinery

1750-1830

Peg frame for knitting with a steel and a bone nee

Textiles Machinery

Ring spinning frame, 1926.

Textiles Machinery

1926
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
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
Lock stitch sewing machine in section on stand and card of various needles, by the Singer Manufacturing Company, United States, 1889-1899.

Singer lock stitch sewing machine in section on stand and ca

Textiles Machinery

1889-1899

Bobbin of artificial silk produced by Legh Powell, 1885-1886

Textiles Machinery

1885-1886

Howe lock-stitch sewing machine, c 1888.

Textiles Machinery

1883

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

Textiles Machinery

1871

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

Textiles Machinery

1865-1883
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

Judkin's lock-stitch sewing machine, 1851.

Textiles Machinery

1851
Yarn guide with an adjustable diameter for a circular knitting machine, by W. H. Dorman and Company, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 1883-1893.

circular knitting machine

Textiles Machinery

1883-1893

Four specimens of wire rope

Textiles Machinery

1879-1894

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Jones lock-stitch sewing machine, c 1890.

Textiles Machinery

1879-1909

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

Thomas lock-stitch sewing machine, c 1853.

Textiles Machinery

patent 1853
J.Weir's chain stitch sewing machine, model no. 55S of 1872.

Weir sewing machine, 1872.

Textiles Machinery

1872
Six skeins and one spool of artificial silk made at Wolston, near Coventry, between 1896 and 1900.

Viscose rayon (artificial silk), 1896-1900.

Textiles Machinery

1896-1900

Square Textile printing block, wood faced with a d

Textiles Machinery

1750-1830

Specimen of artificial silk

Textiles Machinery

1883

Bobbin winder, made by the Howe Machine Company, N

Textiles Machinery

1881-1890

sewing machine attachments

Textiles Machinery

Model (scale unknown) of a contemporary ribbon loo

Textiles Machinery

1870

Gibson 'Z' type industrial blanket whipping sewing machine.

Textiles Machinery

1850-1970

Straw splint mill

Textiles Machinery

The cop stand.

Textiles Machinery

c. 1970

Glass case containing seven specimens of shuttles

Textiles Machinery

Piece of sorted flax

Textiles Machinery