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Description: | c1930s.
View of Milling machines at Watson Bros' Fountain Street Mill in the 1930s. Milling was a similar process to Fulling whereby, after initial mending, the cloth was put in a machine which rotated it over rollers with warm water at the bottom. The cloth was shaken and shrunk as it went round the rollers. This process was in place of the fulling stocks whereby the cloth was repeatedly struck with trip hammmers to make it shrink. Milling was a much quicker and more violent process than fulling. It was nearly always used in the Morley Trade but if gentler treatment was required eg. for billiard table cloths, then fulling stocks would probably be used. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Milling Fulling Fountain Street Mill Watson Bros. | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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