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Description: | July 1965.
After the cloth was taken off the loom there were still several processes it had to undergo before it could be despatched for sale. Some of these were wet processes eg. scouring, milling, dyeing etc. and some were dry processes like raising the nap, shearing, tentering etc. The real end stage came with the tentering machine shown here at J.& S. Rhodes' Prospect Mills, Victoria Road. This shows one of the biggest machines in the mill, a tentering machine such as were made by the firm of E. Gordon Whiteley Ltd. in the old tramsheds on Worrall Street, Morley. Although cloth was woven on the loom to a standard width of 54 inches, after scouring, dying and particularly milling (sometimes called fulling) it would have shrunk considerably in width and have felted up somewhat. The tentering machine was used to bring the cloth back to its original width and take out any creases. This would even be done in handloom times by placing the cloth on tenterhooks in the tenter fields. In this image the separate pieces of cloth are being sewn together to pass through the machine in a continuous line, and by the time the cloth is going up the incline at the back of the picture it can be seen that tension has been applied to it and the stretching has begun. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | tentering machine Victoria Road Worrall Street 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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