woolen mills
Fabric production plants
Woolen mills are factories that process wool into yarn or fabric.
The term evokes 19th-century industrial textile production, when water-powered mills transformed raw fleece into cloth.
Many historic mill buildings survive as landmarks or have been converted to other uses: The old woolen mills are now luxury apartments.
- sheep shearingRemoving a lamb's coat
- cardingPreparing fibers for spinning
- weavingInterlacing strands into fabric
- spinningRevolving around an axis
- blanketsFabric bed coverings
fleece · industrial revolution · water wheel · fulling · bobbins · loom · alpaca · spindle · worsted · lanolin · guilds · labor unions · merino · combing · smokestacks · artisanal crafts · heritage sites · cloth
- child laborchild labor, child workers, child labor laws, bonded labor, debt bondage
- textile makingspinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing, carding
- Industrial Historyfactories, cotton mills, coal mines, power stations, sawmills
- textile industrytextile mills, cotton mills, spinning mills, silk mills, yarn spinners
- wool industryfleece, sheep shearing, worsted, worsted yarn, shearing
- Scottish BordersMelrose, Kelso, Lauder, textile mills, Stow
production method
woolen millshand spinning
Creating yarn without machines
cottage industry · spinning wheels · domestic production · craft workshops