Lancashire Loom
Category
Machinery and industrial devices
Date
1880
Materials
Metal
Measurements
128.5 cm (height); 226 cm (length); 116 cm (width)
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Quarry Bank, Cheshire
NT 1453821
Summary
A Lancashire loom (number 212), circa 1880, purchased from Grane Mill, Haslingden (part of a batch purchased for £1500 in the 1990s).
Marks and inscriptions
Front of horizontal bar that runs across top of loom: white; 212 Front of horizontal bar that runs across top of loom: white; 212 Hanging from horizontal bar: front; ends 2200 / reed b2 / ends grey 2200 / loom no. 212 / counts twist medium 18 / counts weft 12s / ends colour .... / dividend .... / price .... / reed space 49" / no. sort .... / width cloth 44½ / quantity of cuts 10 / counts reed 52 / prog no. .... / change wheel 44 / marks in cuts 10 / length in yards .... / date (deleted) / date in 17.1.1997 / 2 reed bars Front of horizontal bar that runs across top of loom: white; 212 Hanging from horizontal bar: front; ends 2200 / reed b2 / ends grey 2200 / loom no. 212 / counts twist medium 18 / counts weft 12s / ends colour .... / dividend .... / price .... / reed space 49" / no. sort .... / width cloth 44½ / quantity of cuts 10 / counts reed 52 / prog no. .... / change wheel 44 / marks in cuts 10 / length in yards .... / date (deleted) / date in 17.1.1997 / 2 reed bars Hanging from horizontal bar: reverse; numerical calculations in hand written in pencil