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Description: | June 1965. Mr. Ted Chilvers pointing out the details about the blend going through this carding and scribbling machine in the 1934 building of J. & S. Rhodes' Prospect Mills, Victoria Road, Morley. The blend number identifies the material being carded and that it has already been dyed, the Qual. number indicates the strength that can be expected when spun and that it will do for warp threads besides weft, and the skein number indicates the thickness of the material being prepared on this set and the amount (length) of the thread that can be wound around either a weft bobbin or a warp bobbin. The long round rollers covered with card clothing, i.e. thousands of small pieces of wire set in a rubber base, are called swifts. Different diameters of rollers revolve at different speeds and the blend is ground down even finer as it is transferred from one roller to the next on its way from one end of the machine to the other. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Prospect Mill machine | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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