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Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Power loom

Textiles Machinery

1926

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

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

Textiles Machinery

1865-1883

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.

Textiles Machinery

1886-1887

Early Wheeler and Wilson hand-powered lock stitch sewing mac

Textiles Machinery

Textile printing block, rectangular

Textiles Machinery

1760-1775 probable date
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
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

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Singer double-thread chainstitch glove sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1915-1920

A la memoire de J.M. Jacquard

Textiles Machinery

1839
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

Model of strand making machine for cotton rope wit

Textiles Machinery

A Singer model 66 lock stitch oscillating hook sewing machin

Textiles Machinery

1908-1909

Electric circuit board associated with a Singer Futura sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1976

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

Textiles Machinery

1874

Specimen of artificial silk

Textiles Machinery

1883

17th century spindle wheel

Textiles Machinery

1601-1700

Model of Brunel's cotton winding machine.

Textiles Machinery

1800-1802

Weaving power loom shuttle

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862
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

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

Textiles Machinery

1701-1800

Specimens of linen, 1783-1784.

Textiles Machinery

1783-1784

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

Textiles Machinery

1913-1914

Ring spinning frame, 1926.

Textiles Machinery

1926

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

Textiles Machinery

1871

Spinning wheel, French

Textiles Machinery

Model of power loom with double shuttle box (scale

Textiles Machinery

1840
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 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
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
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
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
Model of Grimston's twine-balling machine, patented in 1860.

Model of Grimston's twine-balling machine

Textiles Machinery

1862

Howe lock-stitch sewing machine, c 1888.

Textiles Machinery

1883
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

Thomas lock-stitch sewing machine, c 1853.

Textiles Machinery

patent 1853

Scottish wool spinning wheel made by W. Waters of

Textiles Machinery

Four needle lock stitch sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

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

Textiles Machinery

1880-1890

Textile printing block, long strip, carved boxwood

Textiles Machinery

1795-1805

Automatic lock stitch button-hole sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1890