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Interior View showing small setting loom
SC 770745
Description Interior View showing small setting loom
Date 19/10/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 770745
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content John Street Factory, No 57 Tullis Street, Glasgow This shows the back of a narrow setting loom, in which the strips of chenille 'fur' are woven, with cotton and jute backing threads, into a carpet. Here is the beam with the warp threads, and above it the heddles which rise and fall to form the shed though which the chenille and jute weft passes. 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 H35/70/63/16
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