Redhouses, Woolen Mill, Bridgend, Islay. General perspective of piecing-machine. Insc. 'GDH' Titled: 'Textile Machinery, Woolen Mill, Islay' 'Piecing Machine'.
SC 346221
Description Redhouses, Woolen Mill, Bridgend, Islay. General perspective of piecing-machine. Insc. 'GDH' Titled: 'Textile Machinery, Woolen Mill, Islay' 'Piecing Machine'.
Date 1983
Catalogue Number SC 346221
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 10663
Scope and Content Diagram of piecing-machine on ground-floor of woollen mill at Bridgend, Islay This piecing-machine in the woollen mill at Bridgend 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. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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