EditorialTextile manufacturers' book-keeping for the counting house, mill and warehouse. Being a practical treatise, specially designed for the woollen and worsted and allied trades : Norton, George Pepler.
EditorialCertificate - First Prize, Benalla Agricultural & Pastoral Society, 1935, Certificate awarded by to Mrs Violet May Wilson for her hand-knitted, woollen tea cosy at the Benalla Agricultural and Pastoral Society 58th Annual Spring Show, 18th - 19th Octob...
EditorialNegative - City View With Sunnyside Woolen Mills, Ballarat, Victoria, circa 1930, Ballarat with the Sunnyside Woollen Mills and a water channel on the right.
EditorialClothes of a woman from the high valley of Laya (4.000 m) consist of a black yak hair shirt, a blouse a black woollen jacket, heavy felt boots and a distinctive conical bamboo hat. Silver jewelry is worn on the back.
EditorialWhite ground jug, attributed to the Brygos painter, around 490 BCE. The finely dressed woman is spinning woollen thread; she holds a distaff in her left hand, and draws out a strand of wooll with her right. The wooll is attached to a hook at the top of...
EditorialSami people or Lapplanders in a tent made of sail and stakes. Seats made of soft reindeer skins and woollen covers. Illustration from Leopold von Buch?s Travels Through Norway and Lapland, 1813. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazar...
EditorialA woven piece of woollen cloth with a square pattern. Technical objects from India and High Asia, collected by Hermann, Adolphe and Robert Schlagintweit, 1854 to 1858. 1859?. Source: X 366 volume II, no. 11.
EditorialВздорожание мужского костюма из шерстяной ткани в Совдепии. The rising price of men’s woollen cloth suits in Soviet Russia. (Series of four drawings, accompanied by text. Picture 1 is labelled '19...
Editorial1. Handsome travelling dress. 2. Short paletot for girls. 3. Promenade or vistiing dress. 4. Short cape with serpentine sleeves. 5. Travelling or promenade dress with sleeves dress. 6. Spring costume of light woollen material. London, England : 1897. S...
Editorial1 and 2: Cloth mantle for little boys. 3. Girl's frock. 4. Dress for girls. 5 and 6: Embroidered cashmere dress. 7. Woollen crape frock. . London, England : 1897. Source: The Season. Vol.XIII. April 1897. Pl.1233.
EditorialCountry woman going to Valenciennes. This woman was going to Valenciennes to sell her potatoes. She wore a linen jacket and a woollen petticoat. The Costume of the Netherlands displayed in thirty coloured engravings after drawings from nature by Miss S...
EditorialWest View of MELLOR MILL in Derbyshire. an industrial woollen mill in 1803. Coloured engraving. . West View of Mellor Hill in Derbyshire. London and manchester. Source: Maps K.Top.11.17. Language: English.
EditorialWoollen machinery. Woollen Machinery made by Platt Bros. & Co. Limite. Palmer & Howe: Manchester, [c. 1875.]. A photograph of woollen machinery. Image taken from Woollen Machinery made by Platt Bros. & Co. Limited, Hartford Works, Oldham. [An album of...
EditorialWoollen machinery. Woollen Machinery made by Platt Bros. & Co. Limite. Palmer & Howe: Manchester, [c. 1875.]. A photograph of woollen machinery. Image taken from Woollen Machinery made by Platt Bros. & Co. Limited, Hartford Works, Oldham. [An album of...
EditorialWhite ground jug, attributed to the Brygos painter, around 490 BCE. The finely dressed woman is spinning woollen thread; she holds a distaff in her left hand, and draws out a strand of wooll with her right. The wooll is attached to a hook at the top of...
EditorialSami people or Lapplanders in a tent made of sail and stakes. Seats made of soft reindeer skins and woollen covers. Illustration from Leopold von Buch?s Travels Through Norway and Lapland, 1813. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazar...
EditorialWoman in sports dress of woollen crepe. Handcolored pochoir (stencil) lithograph from the French luxury fashion magazine Art, Gout, Beaute, 1929.
EditorialThe oyster lass or Edinburgh fishwoman. She wears a woollen pea jacket, kerchief, and numerous layers of petticoat bunched up at the hip. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinbur...
EditorialSlubbing machine or billy, used to twist carded thread in woollen manufacture, 19th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after an Illustration by J. Herbert from Abraham Rees' "Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary," London, 1817.
EditorialThe Early Iron Age. The bog body from Huldremose in Djursland from 100 AD. The woman wore a skirt of wool, a scarf and two fleece capes. Her hair was tied up with a long woollen cord. National Museum of Denmark.
EditorialStatue of the goddess Narundi, part of the statuary ordered by king Puzur-Inshushinak of Ur-Nammu (2111-2094 BCE). The goddess wears a woollen garment, a " kaunakes", and sits on a lion-throne. See 08-02-12 / 27 Limestone, 109 cm, Sb 54.
EditorialStatue of the goddess Narundi, part of the statuary ordered by king Puzur-Inshushinak of Ur-Nammu (2111-2094 BCE). The goddess wears a woollen garment, a " kaunakes", and sits on a lion-throne. See 08021226,27 Limestone, 109 cm, Sb 54.
EditorialClothes of a woman from the high valley of Laya (4.000 m) consist of a black yak hair shirt, a blouse a black woollen jacket, heavy felt boots and a distinctive conical bamboo hat. Silver jewelry is worn on the back.
EditorialWhite ground jug, attributed to the Brygos painter, around 490 BCE. The finely dressed woman is spinning woollen thread; she holds a distaff in her left hand, and draws out a strand of wooll with her right. The wooll is attached to a hook at the top of...
EditorialTerracotta head of a ewe, Late Prehistoric period, 3.300-3000 BCE. Sheep played an important part in the ancient Sumerian economy. Woollen textiles were sometimes produced in large factories, employing hundreds of women, and probably exported throughou...
EditorialThe " Standard of Ur", southern Iraq, 2600-2400 BCE. Found in one of the largest Royal Tombs in the cemetery at Ur, its function is not yet understood; it could have been carried on a pole, as a " standard" it could also have been a...