Early Textile Manufacturing Processes
- Synopsis
- 3: The last piecing machine to operate in Britain was filmed at Bridgend on the Isle of Islay. The piecing machine’s function was to join the strips of wool, produced by the carding machine, to form continuous lengths that could be wound onto a bobbin. Although the machine has now ceased to operate the film shows how it worked and explains the piecing operation.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 17, 17, 5 min.
- Year of production
- 1979-80
- Availability
- Out of Distribution; 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)
- Uses
- Courses in industrial archaeology, textiles and conservation.*
- Subjects
- Archaeology
- Keywords
- industrial archaeology; Scotland; steam power; textile industries; weaving
Credits
- Director
- Gordon Thomson
- Writer
- John Hume
- Cast
John Hume
Sections
- Title
- Beetling at Avonbank
- Synopsis
- 1: The last beetling machines to operate in this country were filmed at Avonbank in Lanarkshire, a week before the operation stopped in May 1980. In the past cloth was beetled to produce the texture and stiffness required for window roller blinds. The fil
- Title
- Steam powered weaving mill
- Synopsis
- 2: Glenruthven Mill in Auchterarder, Perthshire, was the last steam-operated mill in Scotland - not only the last weaving factory, but the last Scottish factory of any kind to be driven by steam. The film was shot in the summer of 1980, before the two-cyl
- Title
- Wool piecing machine
- Synopsis
- 3: The last piecing machine to operate in Britain was filmed at Bridgend on the Isle of Islay. The piecing machine's function was to join the strips of wool, produced by the carding machine, to form continuous lengths that could be wound onto a bobbin. Al
Production Company
Sponsor
Distributor
- Name
Learning on Screen - the British Universities and Colleges Film and Video Council
- services@bufvc.ac.uk
- Web
- http://bufvc.ac.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 3743 2345
- Address
- York House
221 Pentonville Road
London
N1 9UZ - Notes
- The Learning on Screen distribution library is currently only available in part. Please contact us with any individual queries. The two series of InterUniversity History Film Consortium films which make extensive use of archive footage been digitised for free, online viewing by UK HE institutions - see Learning on Screen InterUniversity History Film Consortium Films (qv).
- Name
University of Strathclyde Audio Visual Media Services
- Web
- http://www.avms.strath.ac.uk/AVMS External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 0141-548 2567
- Fax
- 0141-552 5182
- Address
- Alexander Turnbull Building
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Glasgow
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