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Cloth Making
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Thursday, 18 March, 2010

Trowbridge Museum - Its fun, friendly and free!
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School Workshops

An exciting way to learn more about cloth making and wool processes in one of our School Workshop visits.

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Trowbridge Museum - Its fun, friendly and free!
Education at Trowbridge Museum
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Trowbridge Museum - Its fun, friendly and free!
Trowbridge Museum - Its fun, friendly and free!


Quilley Winder

Children generally acted as winders otherwise it was women’s work. Newly spun yarn was wound onto reels or made into skeins.

A niddy noddy was used to transfer yarn from hanks to bobbins.

These hanks of yarn could be weighed and then wound onto bobbins, locally called quills. The Museum has a mechanical bobbin winder which speeds up a tedious job.


Spinner using her niddy noddy, early 19cen.
Spinner using her niddy noddy, early 19cen.



Bobbins used for mechanical looms
Bobbins used for mechanical looms
Yarn being wound from an upright skein holder onto a bobbin
Yarn being wound from an upright skein holder onto a bobbin

Bobbin winder in Trowbridge Museum
Bobbin winder in Trowbridge Museum

Ivan Clark using a bobbin winder
Ivan Clark using a bobbin winder
Winder at Work
Winder at Work

 

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