Shire Albums Textile machines
Type
Publication
Authors
ISBN 10
0852636474
ISBN 13
9780852636473
Category
Historic technologies
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Publication Year
1983
Publisher
Volume
Shire Albums, No. 103
Pages
32pp.
Series Name
Abstract
This book combines a description of about fifty important textiles machines with an anlysis of their evolution from the twelfth century to the present day. Each machine is deaklt with in the context of its time, showing the impact that even a simple device like the fulling stocks had on textile production in Britain. The book gives the general reader an insight into the historical development of textile machinery. Detailed discussion is restricted to those machines which may be seen in the principal textile museums and collections of Europe and America, which are listed at the end of the book.
Number of Copies
1
