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Black-and-white image depicts a female textile worker quilling yarn. Quilling is the last process in the long-chain system for filling yarns, in which the threads forming the chain are wound on filling bobbins, or quills, ready for the shuttle. This image was most likely taken at the Cheney Bros. silk mill. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Unknown publisher, original image dates from 1940s? but date of postcard publication unknown, possibly 1970s. Black and white image shows Indian leader sitting cross-legged beside a spinning wheel. 15.25 x 11 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows a bobbin winder. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows a winding frame on the left and a swift on the right. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows a skein winder, also known as a hank-winding machine. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Museo didattico della Seta Como. Ph. Congiu/Farabolafoto - stampa Tip. Ed. Nami.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image depicts dressing machines starching linen. Starching is a finishing process in which the fabric is treated with a solution consisting mainly of starch together with other ingredients such as softeners, etc. Starching is usually done in a mangle, which commonly consists of several rolls of differeent types and an open vat for holding water or some solution. The material can be seen here being run through several rollers. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone Viewing Company, ca....

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Weaving cloth, great Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A. Black-and-white image depicts female textile workers drawing-in, the process of entering the warp ends from the warp beam through the eyes of the correct heddles on the respective harnesses. New York.: Underwood & Underwood. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image depicts a female textile worker drawing-in, the process of "drawing in" each thread-end through the proper eyelet of a heddle in one of the harnesses which will be used in the weaving loom. Location unknown. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1905. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Color image depicts a woman warping wool. Warping is the process of preparing a warp for weaving. Toronto, Ont.: The Postcard & Greeting Card Co., ca. 1907-1915. 13.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Postcard.