Interior View showing hank winding machine
SC 770738
Description Interior View showing hank winding machine
Date 19/10/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 770738
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content John Street Factory, No 57 Tullis Street, Glasgow This shows a machine used for winding chenille fur, after cutting and steaming, into hanks ready for the setting looms. The wooden arms at the base of the machine rock to and fro and from side to side to form hanks at the base of the machine. This type of carpet was a speciality of Templetons. It could be made with pile of any required depth, and to any shape and pattern. It was labour intensive to produce, and competition from cheaper processes led to closure of this, the last factory in the world using this process, in 1970. This factory was built from about 1836 for James & William Simpson and others, power-loom weavers. It was bought in 1920 by James Templeton & Co and converted into a carpet factory. Latterly it made chenille axminster carpets using a process devised in 1839 by Templeton & Quiglay. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/62/34
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