Textiles Tool
A visual guide to textile machinery, following cotton from preparation through spinning and weaving, then introducing additional tools and equipment.
Read the six pages in order, or choose a topic below. Select any image to open the full-size version and zoom in on its labels.
1. Preparing cotton
Cotton preparation: the mill, cotton gin, bale, blending feeder, and opener and cleaner.
2. From cotton to yarn
Cleaning, carding, drawing, roving, and spinning prepare cotton fibers for yarn.
3. Preparing yarn and weaving
Winding, warping, sizing on the slasher, and weaving on the loom.
4. Tools and equipment
A visual reference featuring bobbins, braiding machinery, slivers, felting, goffering, knitting, and reels.
5. Weaving and spinning equipment
Shuttles, sizing machinery, spindles, spinnerets, an early wooden loom, spinning machinery, and spinning pumps.
6. More textile machinery
Printing, textured-yarn, tufting, twisting, and woolen and worsted machinery.
