Year | 2022 |
Date | 28-Jan |
Volume | 228 |
Issue | 4,683 |
Page | 226 |
Category | An Engineer's Day Out |
Part | 1 |
Title | King Cotton. Weaving at Queen Street Mill |
Author | Roger Backhouse |
Notes | Visits an authentic, and still operating, weaving mill in Burnley. Mill engine Peace by William Roberts and Co., 300 looms, the weaving process, hand loom, Lancashire type loom by Pemberton and Co., warping beam, loom development, beaming, sizing, setting up a loom, warp typing, shuttles and pirns, tape sizing machine, drawing in frame, Barber-Colman tying machine, pirn winding machine, pirn stripping machine, heald knitting machine, healds and reeds, wire reed maker, tackler's cabin |