Text on reverse: "Two kinds of yarn are delivered at the spinning frames, known as warp and filling, which make respectively the lengthwise and crosswise threads of the cloth. The filling is in its completed form ready for the loom, the warp must first be gotten into shape for dyeing and then arranged in parallel rows or sheets of thread for weaving. The first of these processes is spooling, and consists simply in unwinding the yarn from the small bobbins on which it is spun, and re-winding it on large spools."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Looking down a long row of spoolers, with an aisle of workers on either side in an enormous room full of similar aisles. The spoolers are as tall as the workers and have hundreds of waist-high spindles for holding smaller bobbins, higher-up spindles for the larger bobbins, and a long shelf on top for the completed spools. The workers are primarily light skinned women, with long skirts and aprons, they are working at the bobbins.
Notes:
No. 9 in a set of 25 stereocards. The White Oak Cotton Mills made denim.
Cite As:
ATHM Textile Industry Stereographs. 6524/006 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
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