Items

• 2014.115: Connecting the threads: From the Altiplano to Airedale

  A set of research documents detailing how alpaca wool from the Peruvian Altiplano made its way to Saltaire. Sir Titus Salt's success in textile production was largely based on his use of alpaca wool.
• 2016.4: Derwent Valley Textile Mills

  A booklet on the history of the Derwent Valley Textile Mills. Produced from original in: Industrial Archaeology Review Vol. XVI, Number 1, Autumn 1993
• 2018.42.4: Yorkshire Past and Present Vol. 1. 1873

  4 of 5 volumes of the publication 'Yorkshire Past and Present'. Containing prints of Rivaulx and Bolton Abbeys and Bradford Wool Exchange. This volume contains the early history of Yorkshire from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 18th century. Includes Daniel Defoes 'Tour of Yorkshire'. Includes the history of the Woollen and Worsted Manufacture of Yorkshire.
• 2018.55: Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons and Co Limited

  Promotional booklet for the Salt company. Booklet is similar to others from the same time but has text in French. Contains photographs of processes in the mill. Has two pages of introductory text.
• 2018.56: Saltaire

  Souvenir booklet for the visit of King George V and Queen Mary on 29 May 1918 to Salts Mill. The Mill had recently been purchased from James Roberts by a group of local businessmen whose photographs are featured in the booklet. It also contains photographs of Salts Mill, and a brief textual history of the mill and Saltaire. There is a plan of the mill site with different areas identified. The booklet contains a brief desciption, photographs of processes in the mill, and a plan of the mill showing the location of various processes. In the centre pages there is an artists impression of the King and QUeen in the Burling and Mending room.
• 2018.57: Cloth from Great Britain

  Promotional brochure for the subsidary companies of Illingworth, Morris Group. There is some brief introductory text. There are individual double-page presentations for each of the companies. One page features samples of cloth produced by the company. The other page is a photograph of a 'typica'l' scene from teh Britain of the time. There is an index of overseas agents at the back of hte book.
• 2019.4.10: Product tag

  Small product tag. The label states Registered trademarks. Brown with certification.
• 2019.4.11: Product tag

  Small green product tag with a green alpaca tag. The label states Registered trademarks.
• 2019.4.13: Burling Iron

  Burling Iron used in the Burling and Mending Department to remove knots or lumps in woven cloth
• 2019.4.14: Burling Iron

  A burling iron used in the Burling and Mending Department to remove knots or lumps in woven cloth
• 2019.4.6: key ring

  Small cream keyring with the words Saltaire fabric on it. Possibly given out by the Sales or Marketing Representatives at trade shows or to clients.
• 2019.4.7: Product tag

  Small product tag. The label states Registered trademark, Super Pelecia Pepper Lee; green, black and red certification.
• 2019.4.8: key ring

  Small red keyring with the words Saltaire fabric on it. Possibly given out by the Sales or Marketing Representatives at trade shows or to clients.
• 2019.4.9: Product tag

  Small product tag. The label states Registered trademarks. Black with certification.
• 2019.45.11: Saltaire Overlookers

  Saltaire Overlookers Part 1-Part 5 1853-1959
• 2019.59: Textile Voices: a century of mill life

  A book by Tim Smith and Olive Howarth of Bradford Heritage Recording Unit. Contains reminiscences of textiles workers about working in mills around Bradford, as recorded by the Unit. Illustrated with photographs of mills, workers and the streets of Bradford and nearby towns
• 2019.6.1: Reed Brush

  Reed Brush with wooden handle.
• 2019.6.3: Wooden wall / table cloth measure

  Wooden wall / table cloth measure.
• 2019.60: Here To Stay

  Here To Stay-Bradford's South Asian communities (A pictorial guide) by Bradford Heritage Recording Unit
• 2019.7.1: Shuttle

  Shuttle used in the textile manufacture.