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Resource key
Audio Audio file Document Document
Image Image Map Map
Object Object Video Video

Available Resources
File type: Image Drawing of child pushing basket of wool (JPEG, 177.33 KB)
Original drawing of poor boy working a woollen mill.
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File type: Image Studley Mill and the handle house (JPEG, 442.76 KB)
Original photograph showing the buildings of Studley Mill.
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File type: Image Aerial view of town centre showing mills (JPEG, 163.68 KB)
Aerial photograph c1920s showing Salter's Mill buildings and centre of town.
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File type: Image Aerial view of town centre showing mills with labels (JPEG, 162.04 KB)
Aerial photograph c1920s showing Salter's mill buildings and town centre, with streets and mill labelled.
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File type: Image Spinning Jenny operating in a Trowbridge Mill (JPEG, 351.96 KB)
Photograph showing a spinning jenny in use.
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File type: Object Slubbed wool on the Spinning Mule (JPEG, 64.77 KB)
Photograph showing wool ready to be spun.
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File type: Object Handloom displayed in reconstruction of Victorian room (JPEG, 100.5 KB)
Modern photograph of Victorian wooden hand loom.
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File type: Image Weaver operating a loom in a Trowbridge Mill (JPEG, 676.76 KB)
Photograph showing woman with loom c 1900.
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File type: Object Teasels (JPEG, 78.93 KB)
Photograph of teasels, prickly seed head of plant used to raise nap on cloth.
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File type: Object Teasel Hand (JPEG, 60.77 KB)
Photograph of teasel hand, several teasels held together by wood to make a brush.
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File type: Object Teasel Gig (JPEG, 79.66 KB)
Photograph of machine in Trowbridge Museum, used for raising the nap on finished cloth.
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File type: Image Trowbridge Handle House (JPEG, 123.67 KB)
Modern photograph of handle house, where teasel hands were placed to dry.
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File type: Object Wool Shears (JPEG, 79.24 KB)
Image of large hand shears used to trim nap on finished cloth
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