2020.2.16: School exercise book for Textile department for 1912-1913 session

Identifier: 2020.2.16
Title: School exercise book for Textile department for 1912-1913 session
Type: notebook
Date Created: 1912 - 1913
Publisher: J. Walker
Description: Shipley Technical School - Textile Department note book. With'Students Name' 'Harold Kendall' 'Session 1912-1913' 'Subject: 3rd Year Woollen and Worsted Spinning' handwritten in ink. This exercise book was used by Harold Kendall while a student at the Technical School, now Shipley College. The book includes notes from his 'Woollen, Worsted and Spinning' classes. The exercise book icludes notes on: Textile Fabrics, Mineral Fibres, Sketches of rollers, physical properties of wool and other materials, Sketches of machines to clean and wash wool. How different countries climates etc. produce different wools. The quality and use of wools. Sketch maps of the different sheep in different countries, and the different yarns from sheep. Trade terms and names, wool values. 'Gret details for anyone studying the history of wool textile production.'
Subject: Education; Textile industry; Mill machinery and processes
Associated person or organisation: Kendall, Harold; Technical and Art School
Associated place or event: Exhibition Building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Source: Gift: Porter, Geoffrey
Is Part Of: 2020.2: Silver-headed wooden walking cane