Interior View showing winding frames made by Anderston Foundry
SC 710176
Description Interior View showing winding frames made by Anderston Foundry
Date 7/5/1969
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 710176
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Garie Works (Mill), Kirriemuir, Angus This mill was founded in 1868 by the Wilkie family to weave jute fabric for sacking and bagging, presumably using yarn spun in Dundee, which was the centre of the jute trade. The mill was originally steam-powered, and there were still three steam engines in it in 1969. This shows a winding frame made by the Anderston Foundry, Glasgow, used for rewinding yarn, brought in from a spinning mill, on to bobbins for use in this mill, probably for winding on to pirns for uses in the shuttles of the power looms. The winding and rewinding of yarn into differently sized packages for different purposes is a feature of the textile trades, so that the same length of yarn may have been wound or rewound five or six times, or more, before of becomes incorporated in a piece of cloth. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/69/29/0
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