Lancashire Loom
Butterworth and Dickinson Limited
Category
Machinery and industrial devices
Date
1900
Materials
Metal
Measurements
127 cm (height)242 cm (length)109 cm (width)
Place of origin
Burnley
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Quarry Bank, Cheshire
NT 1453831
Summary
A Lancashire loom made by Butterworth and Dickinson, Burnley, circa 1900. This machine is number 43, identified by its affixed plate. This machine weaves cotton fabric using warp and weft threads. Hundreds of warp threads are wound around a metal beam at the back of the machine, and are drawn in from the back through a series of healds (thin ropes with eyelets) that are attached to heald shafts. As the shafts are raised and lowered, the weft thread is sent from side-to-side between the warp threads by a shuttle, weaving together the individual threads into a solid piece of cloth.
Provenance
The loom was purchased from Oxford Mill in Burnley, Lancashire.
Marks and inscriptions
Front of horizontal bar that runs across the top of the loom: Butterworth and Dickinson Burnley Front of horizontal bar that runs across the top of the loom: Butterworth and Dickinson Burnley Plate centre of horizontal bar that runs across top of loom: white; 43 Front of horizontal bar that runs across the top of the loom: Butterworth and Dickinson Burnley Plate centre of horizontal bar that runs across top of loom: white; 43 Left end of horizontal bar that runs across top of loom: white; 774 Front of horizontal bar that runs across the top of the loom: Butterworth and Dickinson Burnley Plate centre of horizontal bar that runs across top of loom: white; 43 Left end of horizontal bar that runs across top of loom: white; 774 Left and right end of cross piece (back): indicates width of cloth that loom weaves; 56 Front of horizontal bar that runs across the top of the loom: Butterworth and Dickinson Burnley Plate centre of horizontal bar that runs across top of loom: white; 43 Left end of horizontal bar that runs across top of loom: white; 774 Left and right end of cross piece (back): indicates width of cloth that loom weaves; 56 Top of cross piece, left end: 45TV=____(unreadable)
Makers and roles
Butterworth and Dickinson Limited, manufacturer