Textile Industry Collection (page 3)

'Lacemaking"; after William H Weatherhead, R.I. 1890. Creator: Unknown
'Lacemaking"; after William H Weatherhead, R.I. 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 42. July to December, 1890

Blekerye aededuyne gelegen (Farms and Bleaching-Fields), c. 1611/1612. Creator: Claes Jansz Visscher
Blekerye aededuyne gelegen (Farms and Bleaching-Fields), c. 1611/1612

La tapisserie (les cinq tisseuses), 1924. Creator: Paul Serusier
La tapisserie (les cinq tisseuses), 1924. Weaving (the five weavers). Women around a loom

Pressing cotton into bales on a southern plantation, 1882. Creator: Unknown
Pressing cotton into bales on a southern plantation, 1882

Weighing bales of cotton, 1882. Creator: Unknown
Weighing bales of cotton, 1882

Katagami stencil with bamboo(?) and leaves, between 1900 and 1952. Creator: Unknown
Katagami stencil with bamboo(?) and leaves, between 1900 and 1952

Katagami stencil with fish, between 1900 and 1952. Creator: Unknown
Katagami stencil with fish, between 1900 and 1952

Katagami stencil with leaves, between 1900 and 1952. Creator: Unknown
Katagami stencil with leaves, between 1900 and 1952

Katagami stencil, between 1900 and 1952. Creator: Unknown
Katagami stencil, between 1900 and 1952

Katagami stencil with rabbits and a moon, between 1900 and 1952. Creator: Unknown
Katagami stencil with rabbits and a moon, between 1900 and 1952

Katagami stencil, between 1900 and 1952. Creator: Unknown
Katagami stencil, between 1900 and 1952

Katagami stencil with images of chrysanthemums, between 1900 and 1952. Creator: Unknown
Katagami stencil with images of chrysanthemums, between 1900 and 1952

Steam Sewing-Machines, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Steam Sewing-Machines, 1854. The machine-room of the firm of Holloway, Crowe, and Holloway, ...wholesale clothes manufacturers, Stroud, Gloucestershire...Here are twenty machines in work

Les syndics des drapiers, copie d'après Rembrandt, c.1853. Creator: Felix Francois Georges Philibert Ziem
Les syndics des drapiers, copie d'apres Rembrandt, c.1853

Etude d'homme [Les Syndics], copie d'après Rembrandt, between 1848 and 1855
Etude d'homme [Les Syndics], copie d'apres Rembrandt, between 1848 and 1855

No. 12 (juni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c. 1798/1800)
No. 12 (juni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 10 (ju), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c. 1798/1800)
No. 10 (ju), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 12 (juni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c. 1798/1800)
No. 12 (juni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 7 (nana), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c1798/1800)
No. 7 (nana), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 10 (ju), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c. 1798/1800)
No. 10 (ju), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 6 (roku), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c1798/1800)
No. 6 (roku), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 8 (hachi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c. 1798/1800)
No. 8 (hachi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 5 (go), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko...c.1798/1800)
No. 5 (go), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 7 (nana), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c1798/1800)
No. 7 (nana), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 4 (shi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c. 1798/1800)
No. 4 (shi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 6 (roku), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c1798/1800)
No. 6 (roku), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 3 (san), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c. 1798/1800)
No. 3 (san), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 5 (go), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko...c.1798/1800)
No. 5 (go), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 4 (shi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c. 1798/1800)
No. 4 (shi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 2 (ni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko...c.1798/1800)
No. 2 (ni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 3 (san), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c. 1798/1800)
No. 3 (san), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 2 (ni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko...c.1798/1800)
No. 2 (ni), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 1 (ichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c1798/1800)
No. 1 (ichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 1 (ichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c1798/1800)
No. 1 (ichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

No. 11 (juichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku... c1798/1800)
No. 11 (juichi), from the series "Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry (Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)", Japan, c. 1798/1800

Cotton-goods Lane, Odenma-cho (Odenma-cho momendana), from the series "One... 1858. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Cotton-goods Lane, Odenma-cho (Odenma-cho momendana), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1858

Textile factory built by Work Projects Administration (WPA), Brookhaven, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Textile factory built by Work Projects Administration (WPA) and leased to private industry to bring payroll to Brookhaven, Mississippi

Nearly completed factory... Hightstown, New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hightstown, New Jersey. View of nearly completed factory for garment workers

Silk-goods Lane, Odenma-cho (Odenma-cho gofukudana), from the series "One Hundred... 1858
Silk-goods Lane, Odenma-cho (Odenma-cho gofukudana), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1858

Background photgraph for Hightstown project, Garment factory on West Twenty-first Street, NY, 1936
Background photgraph for Hightstown project. Garment factory on West Twenty-first Street, New York City. Mr. Jacob Solomon

View of nearly completed factory for garment workers, Hightstown, New Jersey, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Hightstown, New Jersey. View of nearly completed factory for garment workers

In the sewing room, Shafter camp for migrants (FSA), California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California

In the sewing room, Shafter camp for migrants (FSA) California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California

In the sewing room, Shafter camp for migrants (FSA), California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In the sewing room, migrant women are instructed in rug-making. Shafter camp for migrants (Farm Security Administration-FSA), California

The Dyers Quarter in Kanda (Kanda Kon'ya-cho), from the series "One Hundred Famous... 1857
The Dyers Quarter in Kanda (Kanda Kon'ya-cho), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1857

Cotton-goods Lane, Odenma-cho (Odenma-cho momendana), from the series "One... 1858. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Cotton-goods Lane, Odenma-cho (Odenma-cho momendana), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1858

Silk-goods Lane, Odenma-cho (Odenma-cho gofukudana), from the series "One Hundred... 1858
Silk-goods Lane, Odenma-cho (Odenma-cho gofukudana), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1858

Reid's Patent Vertical Power-Loom (Interior Section), 1850. Creator: Unknown
Reid's Patent Vertical Power-Loom (Interior Section), 1850. The advantages aimed at by the...Loom are: enabling the weaver to attend with greater facility the weaving of four pieces at once

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The textile industry is a vibrant tapestry of history, innovation, and artistry. From the humble beginnings of the first sewing machine in 1846 to the intricate designs woven on looms by skilled artisans, this industry has shaped our world in countless ways. In 1857, Ando Hiroshige captured the essence of textile production with his depiction of the Dye House at Konya-cho in Kanda. The vibrant colors and meticulous craftsmanship showcased here are a testament to the dedication and skill required to create beautiful fabrics. Another glimpse into this world can be seen in Cotton Printing at Merton Abbey Works circa 1884. Though its creator remains unknown, their work speaks volumes about the precision and attention to detail that went into every piece produced at these renowned works. Carpet weaving was also an integral part of this industry, as shown by Hammersmith Carpet Weaving at Merton Abbey Works. The anonymous artist's portrayal transports us back to a time when handcrafted rugs adorned homes with their intricate patterns and luxurious textures. We cannot forget the role technology played in revolutionizing textile production. James Tingle's engraving depicts power looms on a cotton factory floor, showcasing how mechanization transformed manufacturing processes forever. Ando Hiroshige returns with Hatsune no Baba; Bakurocho circa 1857, offering yet another glimpse into Japan's rich textile heritage. This captivating artwork captures both tradition and progress as women weave delicate threads together on looms. Wool sorters were essential figures within this industry during c1880s - their expertise ensured only high-quality materials made it through for further processing. Their contribution cannot be overstated when considering woolen textiles' enduring popularity throughout history. Saltaire works from around 1880 showcases one of Britain's iconic mills where workers labored tirelessly to produce fine textiles that would adorn people's lives across continents. These grand establishments were hubs of creativity and industry, shaping the fabric of society.