Text on reverse: "From the Beaming Frames the warps are taken to machines known as Slashers, where they are sized or stiffened to enable them to stand the chafing at the looms incidental to the process of weaving. The Slasher Beams are placed in an iron frame at the back of the slashers and unwound together through the machine. With them some additional threads of white yarn are unwound at either side to form the selvage of the cloth."
A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Looking down a row of Slashers, with light skinned male workers attending to the dyed warps. The workers are standing at large basins, each holding multiple warps. To their left, on the left side of the frame, are the domed Slashers, each at least twice as tall as the workmen, and attached to the ceiling and the basins by large, tubular ducts. at the opposite end of each basin is fixed 2 feeds of bobbins of light-colored thread. A worker near these bobbins at the second machine, has a large mustache and stares directly into the camera while handling the threads.
Notes:
No. 13 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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