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Visits a Regency mill still weaving silk on Victorian looms. Silk industry history, Whitchurch silk mill on the River Test, Whitchurch silk mill, seen from downstream, gear wheels and governor, waterwheel, dyed hanks (slips) of silk on 'swifts', silk processing, ceramic guides, bobbin frame, beamer, hand loom, healds (leashes), Enoch Ruston maker's plate on Macclesfield made loom, Dobby mechanism, shuttle, pirn (quill) winders, overview, visiting the mill, City Mill Winchester, West Country Pacific 34007 Wadebridge at Alresford on the Watercress Line (Photographed 10th July 2010), Twyford Waterworks |