2020.2.10: The Worsted Overlooker's Handbook

Identifier: 2020.2.10
Title: The Worsted Overlooker's Handbook
Type: booklet
Date Created: 1902
Publisher: F. King and Sons Ltd. Technical School Outfitters
Place created: Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Description: This copy of 'The Worsted Overlooker's Handbook'. shows calculations, rules and tables useful for a worsted overlooker. It has details about Warping, Spinning, Yarns and Weft. Handwritten inscription inside front cover: 'William Gale, Burnside MIll (Swan Hotel), Addingham. Nov. 8th 1905'. The booklet was used by Harold Kendall during his time at Salts Mill
Subject: Textile industry; Mill machinery and processes; Working life
Associated person or organisation: Kendall, Harold
Associated place or event: Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Source: Gift: Porter, Geoffrey