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Description: | June 1965.
Image shows part of a Mule at J. & S. Rhodes' Prospect Mills spinning some thread for the warp beams on to bobbins called 'cops'. These bobbins were larger than the standard size for weft since they all had to be fixed to the warping frame, and have enough length on them to meet the needs of the warper. The large containers at the back of the Mule are called 'condenser bobbins'. Each of these feeds 12 cops and a careful examination of the condenser shows that the material is divided into 12 equal parts. These are slivers of fluff produced on the carding and scribbling machines, and it was the job of the Mule to make these slivers into threads by compacting them and putting some strength into them by twisting or spinning them. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | mule spinning weft warp Prospect Mills | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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