The Yorkshire Textile Industries through the ages were mainly woollens (made of wool, obviously) and worsteds (also made of wool, though at Saltaire of course they did alpaca worsteds)….
Bring on the wool….
My desk
Ditto….
Wonder if I learned anything… well here goes…..
To make woollens from wool. You have to
1. wash it
2. card it
3. spin it
4. weave it
5. finish the woven woolens
Finishing might include
- fulling
- dying
- tentering
- raising
- cropping
With additional and omitted steps with worsteds. Looks like a lot of hard work. How anyone managed to make it through all those stages to produce the first ever textiles is beyond me..... Perhaps that’s why Gengiz Khan conquered half the world with little or no textile industry, the mongol yurt being made of felt instead.
Anyway, to spin the spindle was invented millennia ago and was still in use until the Industrial Revolution. A student gives it a go....
Along comes the Great Wheel.
But the hand spindle is still in use, can be used anywhere and until invention of the spinning jenny, yarn is generally in short supply, especially in areas with a textile industry.
Lights!
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