Title

Carding, drawing and roving cotton, c1830. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Carding, drawing and roving cotton, c1830. A carding engine (left) delivers cotton in a single sliver. The factory is operated by shafts and belting, which could be powered by water or steam.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1830

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B63_169

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,0Mb (3,2Mb) / 12,6in x 9,2in / 3782 x 2772 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings female women woman people interior indoors event job technology industry manufacturing worker trade occupation British factory machine machinery mill century textiles Britain profession inside lady concept cotton B&W MONOCHROME textile industry industrial revolution cotton Mill 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century textile mill workers Oxford Science Archive carding mechanisation textile manufacturing textile worker textiles worker engraving Unknown engraving