Box 11

Scope and Contents Dye Becks (both sides). Black-and-white image of unknown dyehouse, showing hydro-extrators in the left center. A hydro-extractor is a machine for expeling the loose water from raw stock, yarn, cloth, etc., by means of centrifugal force. The wet material is loaded in a perforated cage or basket that can be rapidly rotated, thus slinging out the water. Dye becks are machines for dyeing piece goods. Four male laborers stand in the background. Handwritten message on reverse of card is dated Dec....

Scope and Contents Black and white image of men working in a plant of the National Silk & Dyeing Company in Paterson, N.J. Stripping is the boiling off of the superfluous gums and oils that would interfere with the dyeing. This process is going on in the first tier of tubs on the right. After stripping and weighting, the silk is returned to this room to be dyed in the tanks beyond the tub in the foreground. The skeins are suspended from wooden rods across the tubs full of hot dye-liquor. The skeins are...

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Musee de la View Wallonne. Liege, Belgium.

Format: Postcard.

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Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows a raising frame, used to raise the nap on fabric. 9 x 14 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, England. [no later than 1962] Black and white image shows a set of hand cropping shears, in this case used to shear the nap of fabric, laid on a board. 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 Lewis cross-cut machine used for shearing the nap of fabric. 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 shearing machine used for shearing the nap of fabric. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Scope and Contents Black and white image of a man working at a shearing machine. A shearing machine shears cloth by mechanically trimming the projecting fibers from the surface of a cloth. The cutting action is provided by means of a roller on which are spirally mounted a number of steel blades. This rotates in close contact with a fixed ledger blade, the cloth passing between the two. The location of this mill is unknown. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9 cm. Format:...

Scope and Contents Black and white image shows men working in a room filled with shearing machines. A shearing machine shears cloth by mechanically trimming the projecting fibers from the surface of a cloth. The cutting action is provided by means of a roller on which are spirally mounted a number of steel blades. This rotates in close contact with a fixed ledger blade, the cloth passing between the two. The location of this mill is unknown. Carter's Series No. 58. Printed in Britain. [no earlier than 1902] 14...

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image depicts a late 18th-century cropping shop, where the surface of fabric is sheared by hand. Shearing is a finishing operation where the projecting fibers from the surface of a cloth are cut or trimmed. Here a man uses an implement to shear the cloth. Note the large pair of shears on the wall on the left. [Published by] Textile Department, Bankfield Museum, Halifax [Yorkshire, England]. Formerly a private residence, Bankfield was sold in 1887 and was transformed into a...