| Description |
15 cards : black and white photographs ; 25 x 31 cm |
| Summary |
Set of 15 photographs for educational purposes depicting the stages of processing wool, starting with the farm. |
| Contents |
A close-up picture of a young lamb -- Displaying fleece on the belly of a ram -- Testing wool staple for strength. This is a highly skilled operation -- Seventy bales of wool being transported from a sheep property in New South Wales -- Buyers inspect the wool on the show floor before the wool sales are held -- Buyers valuing wool prior to the wool sales -- English combing, on one of the many intricate machines used by woollen mills in the preparation of worsted cloths -- Warping the yarn, as the process of laying the yarn evenly on the beam is known -- Weaving. This picture shows one of the many types of modern looms in use in present-day wool textile mills -- |
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Contents note continued: Drawing in the yarn through the healds. These are later set into the loom for weaving -- Twisting the warp. Fastening the end of a new yarn on to the old when a previous pattern is being repeated -- Open drawing ... one of the many operations in the preparation of woollen or worsted yarns -- Close-up of the carding process, showing the wool coming off in the form of a filmy veil -- Twisting ot doubling the woollen yarn prior to weaving the cloth -- Close-up of a cropper. One of the many operations in the finishing of worsted cloth. |
| Notes |
Title derived by cataloguer |
| Subject |
Wool-combing -- Photographs.
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Woolen and worsted manufacture -- New South Wales -- Photographs.
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Wool-carding -- Photographs.
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Woolen and worsted weaving -- Photographs.
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Wool industry -- New South Wales -- Photographs.
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