Man operating machine for punching cards for Jacquard looms. Card for each weft thread of pattern. 400-800 normal, but sometimes 24, 000 were worked. From George Dodd The Textile Manufactures of Great Britain, London, 1844. Engraving
Weaver at his loom. This man would be a piece-worker with his loom in his house, and would produce lengths of cloth for a merchant who often supplied him with his yarn. From The Book of English Trades London 1823. Hand-coloured woodcut.
1870's Antique Print Victorian Old History 19th Century Industry Industrial Machinery Machine Cotton Spinning Weaving Yarn Woollen Mills Cotton Weaving Platt's Power Loom For Plain Weaving 1875
Jacquard Loom. Power operated development of Joseph Marie Jacquard's (1752-1834) invention, showing swags of punched cards on which the pattern to be woven was encoded. Chromolithograph, 1915.
1870's Antique Print Victorian Old History 19th Century Industry Industrial Machinery Machine Cotton Spinning Weaving Yarn Woollen Mills Dickinson's 37-inch Reed Space Loom 1875
Preparing punched cards for a Jacquard loom. Card for each weft thread of pattern. 400-800 normal, but sometimes 24,000 were worked. From George Dodd The Textile Manufactures of Great Britain, London, 1844. Engraving
Spinners at work; Weavers; Spinner; Wool; Spinning Wheel; Weaving; Yarn; Craft; Hand Spinning; Devon Guild of weavers Spinners and dyers; Knitting; anthony rowe; antrowephotography
Weaving shed fitted with Jacquard power looms. Swags of punched cards carrying pattern being woven are at right and above each loom. Illustration Paris c1880
Power loom for weaving cotton. Model illustrated is that invented by Roberts (c1815-20). Belting connecting to drive shaft is shown at centre back of picture. Female operative. Wood engraving c1840.