Lancashire Loom
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The Lancashire Loom was a semi-automatic power loom invented by James Bullough and William Kenworthy in 1842. Although it is self-acting, it has to be stopped to recharge empty shuttles. It was the ma
1894 Lancashire Looms (Harling & Todd) still in use at Queen Street Mill, Burnley.
Swedish weaving
Hermann Sondermann Familie mit Frau am Spinnrad detail
Weaving shed
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A weaving shed is a distinctive type of mill developed in the early 1800s in Lancashire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire to accommodate the new power looms weaving cotton, silk, woollen and worsted. A weavin
Tape sizing machine
The south-facing common slate roofs at Bankfield Shed, Barnoldswick
Queen Street Mill, Harle Syke