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Foot operated card sewing machine
SC 383673
Description Foot operated card sewing machine
Catalogue Number SC 383673
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 20370
Scope and Content Foot-operated card sewing machine, Weaving Shed, St Leonard's Works, Bothwell Street, Dunfermline St Leonard's Works on Bothwell Street was built in 1851 as a linen mill for Erskine-Beveridge and recently converted into housing. This foot-powered sewing machine is used to join up the punch-cards that act like computer programs to control the factory's weaving looms. The cards are held in place by the pronged wheels. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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