Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2024
Date 14-Jun
Volume 233
Issue 4,745
Page 9
Category An Engineer's Day Out
Part
Title Whitchurch Silk Mill, Hampshire
Author Roger Backhouse
Notes 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