Day at a Leeds Flax-Mill
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An illustrated 1843 Penny Magazine supplement describing flax from seed to linen cloth, centered on a visit to Marshall's flax-mill at Holbeck, Leeds. It covers flax growing, pulling, retting (notably at Courtrai), and the Irish flax improvement society, then follows mill processes: heckling, drawing, doubling, tow-carding, roving, spinning and twisting. It closes with notes on the linen trade in Dundee and Ireland, including hand-loom weavers and the fabrics woven. Engravings show the mill interior and the machine rooms.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- December 1843
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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