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Islay, Bridgend/Redhouses Woollen Mill. Interior, ground floor. View of rare Piecing Machine (right) and Carding Machine.
DP 359977
Description Islay, Bridgend/Redhouses Woollen Mill. Interior, ground floor. View of rare Piecing Machine (right) and Carding Machine.
Date 14/10/2019 to 18/10/2019
Collection Historic Environment Scotland
Catalogue Number DP 359977
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Piecing-machine on ground-floor of woollen mill at Bridgend, Islay. This now disused piecing-machine in the woollen mill at Bridgend/Redhouses is one of only three to survive in Britain. It is marked: RT ARCHIBALD'S PATENT DEVONVALE NO.6 and is an improved version of one patented to Robert Archibald of Devon Vale, Tillicoultry in 1858. The carding-machine tips strips of wool or 'rowans' into the piecing-machine's trays. These are tipped in batches of ten onto belts beneath. Each rowan is then rolled, twisted, joined to the one from the previous batch, and then wound onto the bobbin. The bobbins then went to the now very rare example of a Slubbing Billy so that twist could be introduced for strengthening, thence to the spinning jennies to spin into yarn ready for warping and weaving on the looms.
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