The pictures focus on a year at Prospect Mill in Morley in 1965.
Photo: David Atkinson Archive, Leeds LibrariesA worker feeds blend, already dyed, into the scribbling and carding machine. The scribbling and carding machines were always joined together and the pulled fibres transferred from one part to the other on a 'monkey'. Both machines in the pair were known as a set. The number of sets that a mill had gave some indication of its size.
Plain looms, made by Lee and Crabtree, being used by female workers to weave ladies' overcoating material. Normally looms are on the ground floor in textile mills due to the weight of the machinery or may be housed in a special weaving shed.
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