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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

Weaving Instruments

Textile Industry

Hand loom for producing fancy smallware fabrics, 18th century.

Hand loom for producing fancy smallware fabrics, 1

Textiles Machinery

1701-1800

Model hand loom for weaving sacks (and so on) without a seam

Textiles Machinery

prob year of patent 1802

Weaver's measuring scale by Thomas Blunt, London.

Textiles Machinery

Early hand loom for braid making, 1850.

Textiles Machinery

1850

Model of power loom with double shuttle box (scale

Textiles Machinery

1840

Tapestry panel depicting "Old Bolton Abbey", woven on a modern power loom

Tapestry panel depicting "Old Bolton Abbey", woven

Textiles Machinery

Not known

A double fixed bobbin shuttle by makers Carrick, Brades Co. and J. Garrick, Glasgow, Scotland.

Two loom shuttles, c 18th century

Textiles Machinery

Part of a loom, being a mechanism to wind up the cloth as it is woven, by Hacking and Co. Limited, Bury, Manchester, England, 1912.

Loom Mechanism to wind up woven cloth

Textiles Machinery

1912

Model of a hand loom for weaving fishing nets (scale 1:4), invented J. Robertson., United Kingdom, 1806.

Model of a hand loom for weaving fishing nets (sca

Textiles Machinery

Model on a reduced scale of the first Vaucanson loom of 1745, based upon the original in the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, Paris. This loom uses an earlier form of the Jacquard System, i.e. a rotating drum to select heddles.

Model on a reduced scale of the first Vaucanson l

Textiles Machinery

1745; before 1935

Hand loom, c. 1898; formerly the property of Katie Grasett, founder of the London School of Weaving.

Hand loom, c. 1898; formerly the property of Katie

Textiles Machinery

1898

Two samples of calico, woven by pneumatic loom (19a, 19b), by C. W. Harrison, Manchester, England, 1865.

Two samples of calico, woven by pneumatic loom

Textiles Machinery

1865

Four samples of Ancient Egyptian cloth of pure linen, 1500-1000 BC mounted on board

Four samples of Ancient Egyptian cloth of pure lin

Textiles Machinery

1500-1000 BCE

Model hand carpet loom and woven rug sample to illustrate method of weaving Persian rugs.

Model hand carpet loom and woven rug sample to ill

Textiles Machinery

Model of de Genne's loom, 1678

Textiles Machinery

Model of power loom invented by George White (scale 1:3), United Kingdom, c. 1829.

Model of power loom invented by George White (sca

Textiles Machinery

1824-1834

Two samples of Ancient Egyptian fine linen, coloured border, XVIII to XXII Dynasty, mounted on board and dated 1600-1000 B.C.

Two samples of Ancient Egyptian fine linen, colour

Textiles Machinery

1600-1000 BCE

Four fixed spool shuttles by Brown, Glasgow, Scotland.

Two Kay shuttles, c 18th century.

Textiles Machinery