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Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution

Cotton Manufacturing Processes
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Bale Breaker Blowing Room
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Willowing FCIcon ovo.svg
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Breaker Scutcher Batting
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Finishing Scutcher Lapping
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Carding Carding Room
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Drawing
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Slubbing
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Intermediate
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Roving FCIcon h.svg Fine Roving
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Mule Spinning - Ring Spinning Spinning
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Winding Bundling Bleaching
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Weaving shed FCIcon vvo.svg Winding
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Beaming FCIcon vvo.svg Cabling
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Warping FCIcon vvo.svg Gassing
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Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution in Britain was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines. In Germany it was concentrated in the Wupper Valley, Ruhr Region and Upper Silesia, while in the United States it was in New England. The four key drivers of the Industrial Revolution were textile manufacturing, iron founding, steam power and cheap labour.

Before the 18th century, the manufacture of cloth was performed by individual workers, in the premises in which they lived and goods were transported around the country by packhorses or by river navigations and contour-following canals that had been constructed in the early 18th century. In the mid-18th century, artisans were inventing ways to become more productive. Silk, wool, and fustian fabrics were being eclipsed by cotton which became the most important textile.

Innovations in carding and spinning enabled by advances in cast iron technology resulted in the creation of larger spinning mules and water frames. The machinery was housed in water-powered mills on streams. The need for more power stimulated the production of steam-powered beam engines, and rotative mill engines transmitting the power to line shafts on each floor of the mill. Surplus power capacity encouraged the construction of more sophisticated power looms working in weaving sheds. The scale of production in the mill towns round Manchester created a need for a commercial structure; for a cotton exchange and warehousing. The technology was used in woollen and worsted mills in the West Riding of Yorkshire and elsewhere.


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