Box 11
Contains 129 Results:
Item 2: "Weighting" and washing silk skeins, before dyeing, in Paterson Factory, N.J.
Black and white image of men working in a Paterson, N.J., silk mill. Weighting consists of immersing the silk in a tin solution to increase its weight and give it body. The round vats seen here contain the tin in solution. The silk is put in these vats and while rotating rapidly, absorbs the solution of tin. The silk after weighting is ready to go into the dyeing room. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 17.5 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.
Item 3: Wet process finishing
Black and white image of the interior of an unknown mill, showing the area where the wet finishing would take place. Wet finishing is a general term for those finishing processes in which the material is immersed in, or becomes wet with, water. ca. 1910-1917. 8.5 x 13.5 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 1: Two rows of vats
Format: Black and white photograph.
Item 2: Barca ad aspo per tintura [Boat reel for dyeing]
Museo didattico della Seta Como. Ph. Congiu/Farabolafoto - stampa Tip. Ed. Nami.
Format: Postcard.
Item 3: Laboratororio chimico [Chemical laboratory]
Museo didattico della Seta Como. Ph. Congiu/Farabolafoto - stampa Tip. Ed. Nami.
Format: Postcard.
Item 4: Bilance [The balance]
Museo didattico della Seta Como. Ph. Congiu/Farabolafoto - stampa Tip. Ed. Nami.
Format: Postcard.
Item 5: Small Section of the Brainerd & Armstrong Dyeing Plant [New London, Conn.]
Color image shows men standing next to racks with fabric hung over rods. The building has brick walls and the ceiling is open. One man is standing in the sill of a window in the left background. The reverse of the postcard is a form letter indicating that a salesman will be calling on the recipient. Made by Chilton Printing Co., Phila., Pa., U.S.A. ca. 1907-1915. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 6: A tour through Messrs Lupton and Co's Woolen Mills, Leeds, 1773-1958: dyeing
Black-and-white image depicts vats in the wool dyehouse, where wool would be dyed once it had been scoured and cleaned. Number two in a series of eight. Postcard by Armley Mills, Leeds Museum of Science and Industry. Printed by E. T. W. Dennis & Sons Ltd., Scarborough, England. This postcard was printed in 1982 as the Leeds Museum of Science and Industry was created in 1982, but the image probably dates from an earlier period. ca. 1982. 15 x 11 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 7: Dyeing Machine, 1962
Color image of a man standing next to a large dyeing machine, which is nearly twice as tall as he is. Printed on reverse: "Another unit in the famous line of high-quality Rodney Hunt wet finishing equipment ready for shipment to a satisfed customer! Type P Model '85' stainless steel Tru- Shade Dyeing Machine." Orange, Mass.: Rodney Hunt Machine Co., Textile Machinery Division. Postmarked January 12, 1962 in Orange. 14 x 9 cm.
Format: Postcard.
Item 8: Dyeing silk in the piece in a mammoth silk dyeing works, Paterson N.J.
Black and white image of men working in a the piece dyeing plant of the National Silk and Dyeing Co. in Paterson, N.J. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9 cm.
Format: Stereoptic print.