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Description: | June 1965.
A worker feeds blend, already dyed, into the scribbling and carding machine at Prospect Mills. The scribbling and carding machines were always joined together and the pulled fibres transferred from one part to the other on a 'monkey'. Both machines in the pair were known as a set. The number of sets that a mill had gave some indication of its size. It was generally reckoned that the production from one set could supply twelve spinning mules with enough material to keep them working, while one mule could spin weft to keep eight looms in production. This equation was only true if the material being processed on the carders and mules was going to be woven with a cotton warp. The reason for dyeing this blend in the sheet (sack lying on the floor in front of the hopper) is that the blend was also going to be used to make warp threads to go on the beam in the loom. The resultant red woollen cloth was to be used to make good quality ladies' overcoat material. Then, of course, with having to supply both warp and weft threads the sets could not keep as many looms running. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | carding cloth blend Prospect Mills scribbling | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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