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Galashiels, Wilderhaugh Street, Wilderbank Mill, Interior View showing Hattersley standard loom
SC 617973
Description Galashiels, Wilderhaugh Street, Wilderbank Mill, Interior View showing Hattersley standard loom
Date 7/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 617973
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Wilderbank Mill, Wilderhaugh Street, Galashiels, Scottish Borders This large mill complex was built between 1862 and 1890 by William Brown & Sons for the manufacture of tweed. Like most mills of the period it was an integrated mill, that is, it spun yarn and wove it into cloth. This shows a power loom of a standard type, made by Hattersleys, a Yorkshire firm. The mechanism at the top of the loom on the left is a dobby, a device for simple pattern selection, and below it is a drop box with six shuttles, allowing six colours of weft (cross threads). This works was a victim of the downturn in demand for high-quality tweed which occurred in the 1970s. The mill was closed in the late 1970s, and speedily demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H69/535/2A
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