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During the succeeding decades the woollen mill changed ownership several times, and the original structure burned in 1908. [3] The mill was rebuilt and was operated by members of the Little family as Little's Woollen Mill until 1916 when it was renamed Briggs & Little after its new owners Matthew Briggs and Howard Little. [ 2 ]
The wool processing within the mill consisted of various stages: sorting and grading, scouring, drying and dying, carding, combing, spinning, weaving, brushing, and sewing. Each stage was carried out in a separate area of the mill, with each process flowing onto the next in a hierarchical structure; this was a design feature to facilitate ...
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 ...
J. B. Courtney Woolen Mills are textile manufacturing mills in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. The company was originally owned by the Kelley family and was purchased by the Courtney family in 1904. [1] Afterwards, the company changed its name from Kelley Knitting Company to J. B. Courtney Woolen Mills.
The Yantic Woolen Company Mill, also known as the Hale Company Mill, is a mill complex located at the junction of Chapel Hill and Yantic Roads in northwestern Norwich, Connecticut. Built in 1865, the stone mill is a well-preserved example of mid-19th century textile mill architecture, and was the major economic force in the village of Yantic ...
In 1858, the mill was bought by Laing & Irvine. In 1860, they installed mechanical looms, powered by a 15 ft diameter water wheel, at a cost of four thousand pounds.. Laing & Irvine failed to run the mill economically and in 1875 it was bought by Walter Thorburn & Bros, a partnership set up in 1869 by Michael and Walter Thorburn, sons of Walter Thorburn, a former Provost of the
Berlin wool work is a style of embroidery similar to today's needlepoint that was particularly popular in Europe and America from 1804 to 1875. [1]: 66 It is typically executed with wool yarn on canvas, [2] worked in a single stitch such as cross stitch or tent stitch, although Beeton's book of Needlework (1870) describes 15 different stitches for use in Berlin work.