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Description: | June 1965. Willie Suffield twisting in a woollen warp on a plain loom at J. & S. Rhodes' Prospect Mills, Victoria Road, Morley. Twisting in meant joining the threads from one warp beam to the ends of the threads from another warp beam in situ in the loom. This could only be done if the warps were identical (as they often were if two cotton warps were being linked). The twisting came from rubbing two threads together between finger and thumb so that they would join together to pass through the slay that separated alternate threads so that the shuttle could pass between them and let the weft be interlocked between these warp threads. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Prospect Mill loom | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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