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The mill contained ten carding machines; these large machines broke up the wool and removed impurities. The combing process further organised the woollen fibres. The largest machines in the mill were the spinning mules on which the wool was spun. The wool was then woven into fabrics on the weaving looms.
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Location Built Demolished Served (Years) Albany Mills (Gladstone Mill) Firth St, Huddersfield, SE 1490 1635 3] 1868 : 157: Notes: National Building Register:63088: [Mills 21] Built for John Eastwood 1910 Albany Mills Co Ltd,, 15,000 spindles(B)
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mills in Dewsbury. This is a list of the wool, cotton and other textile mills in Dewsbury, Kirklees, West Yorkshire Dewsbury Name Architect Location Built Demolished Served (Years) Albert Mills Dewsbury, SE 2286 ...
The wool is cleaned. At this point the fleece is full of lanolin and often contains extraneous vegetable matter, such as sticks, twigs, burrs and straw. These may all be removed, though lanolin may be left in the wool till after the spinning, a technique known as spinning 'in the grease'.
Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England This is a list of the wool, cotton and other textile mills in Wakefield: including Castleford, Ossett and Pontefract. Alverthorpe With Thornes (Wakefield) Name Architect Location Built Demolished Served (Years) Alverthorpe Mills Alverthorpe With Thornes (Wakefield), SE 3090 2140 53°41′17″N 1°32′01″W / 53.68813°N 1.53358°W / 53.68813 ...
Scotswomen walking (fulling) woollen cloth, singing a waulking song, 1772 (engraving made by Thomas Pennant on one of his tours). Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (Scots: waukin, hence often spelt waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it ...
Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of the wool, cotton and other textile mills in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Adel Cum Eccup (Leeds) Name Architect Location Built Demolished Served (Years) Scotland Mill Adel Cum Eccup (Leeds), SE 2849 3875 53 ...