Exhibition 'Textiles - From Sheep's Back to Man's Back' in Tolson Museum
The local textile industry created wealth for mill owners such as the Beaumonts who lived in Ravensknowle Hall before it became Tolson Museum.
Displays of machinery and artefacts, from processes including spinning, weaving and cropping, explain how the factory system changed the lives of workers and of the spirited resistance to new machinery by the Luddites.
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A hand cropping bench and shears and a display of the frames, so detested by the Luddites, which mechanised the process of cropping.
Other Luddite related artefacts including Enoch's Hammer and a hair tidy made by one of the Luddites whilst awaiting trial at York Assizes.
A Jacquard Loom used in Huddersfield for the 'fancy' trade of making elaborately patterned shawls and waistcoatings.
Exquisite local samples of fine 19th Century hand-loom woven fancy fabrics.
