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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

Power loom

Textiles Machinery

1926

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

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
Remains of the models of silk machinery introduced from Italy by Sir Thomas Lombe, Derby, England, c. 1732; the remains being: a reel, three spindles with bobbins and flyers and a segment of a circular frame, all half size.

Remains of the models of silk machinery introduced by Sir Thomas Lombe

Textiles Machinery

1732

Model of Brunel's cotton winding machine.

Textiles Machinery

1800-1802

Printing block, 1976.

Textiles Machinery

1976
Model of a handloom (as used previous to the invention of the fly shuttle in 1733), made 1730-1800.

Model of a handloom (as used previous to the invention of the fly shuttle in 1733)

Textiles Machinery

1730-1800
Child's chain stitch Singer model 20 sewing machine first introduced in 1910.

Child's chain stitch Singer model 20 sewing machine first in

Textiles Machinery

1910-1950

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

Textiles Machinery

1939

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

Textiles Machinery

1913-1914

Textile printing block, boxwood face on wooden bac

Textiles Machinery

1750-1830
Arkwright's drawing frame, commonly known as a lantern frame, England, c. 1780.

Arkwright's original drawing frame (lantern frame), 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775-1785

Specimens of linen, 1783-1784.

Textiles Machinery

1783-1784

Model of a teasing mill, also known as a gig-mill,

Textiles Machinery

1800-1820

Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.

Textiles Machinery

1886-1887
Model of Grimston's twine-balling machine, patented in 1860.

Model of Grimston's twine-balling machine

Textiles Machinery

1862
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

Ring spinning frame, 1926.

Textiles Machinery

1926
Stocking knitting frame by Cooper Corah and Sons, Leicester, England, about 1777.

Stocking knitting frame by Cooper Corah and Sons, c. 1777

Textiles Machinery

1770-1785

Jones lock-stitch sewing machine, 1879-1909

Textiles Machinery

1879-1909
Brass model of power loom (scale 1:4) with improved tappet plates, patentee Bennet Woodcroft, England, 1870-1880.

Brass model of power loom (scale 1:4)

Textiles Machinery

1870-1880

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

Textiles Machinery

1885-1886

Weaving power loom shuttle

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862

Howe lock-stitch sewing machine, c 1888.

Textiles Machinery

1883

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

Textiles Machinery

1865-1883

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

Textiles Machinery

1871
Model (scale 1:2) in iron of steam power loom, with tappet motion with spool of yarn and material in process, patentee Bennet Woodcroft, England, c. 1838.

Model (scale 1:2) of steam power loom

Textiles Machinery

1833-1843

Judkin's lock-stitch sewing machine, 1851.

Textiles Machinery

1851
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

Weaving power loom shuttle

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862

Wooden chest for Jones lock stitch sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1879-1909

Specimen of artificial silk

Textiles Machinery

1883
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

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

sewing machine attachments

Textiles Machinery

Cotton comber web (Nasmith Comber)

Textiles Machinery

Wooden spindle with spun flax thread

Textiles Machinery
Five hand-made pins in silver, c. 1800

Five hand-made pins in silver, c. 1800

Textiles Machinery

1800