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Title: Revolving Flat Carding Engine at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00116
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Title
Revolving Flat Carding Engine at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00116
Description
This is carding, the first process in the Cardroom, where the raw wool or cotton is prepared for subsequent spinning by separating the fibres to form a sliver, this is performed on a revolving flat card made by Platt Bros & Co Ltd of Oldham, the world's largest textile machinery maker. Cotton is supplied to the machine as a 'lap' which is like a big roll of cotton wool, produced in the Blowing Room. The card mixes the fibres, removes short fibre (which is stripped from the flats - as seen in below the revolving "Phillipson brush") and delivers cleaned cotton in a web which is drawn together into a sliver and coiled into the can, ready for the drawframes.
The word carding comes from the Latin ‘carduus’ meaning a thistle. Thistles were used for many years as a means of combing the fibres.
The word carding comes from the Latin ‘carduus’ meaning a thistle. Thistles were used for many years as a means of combing the fibres.
Creator
Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. Publicity Dept.
Source
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Date
1930s
Rights
PHDA - Co-operative Heritage Trust
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
CWS00116.tif
Collection
Citation
Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. Publicity Dept., “Revolving Flat Carding Engine at Nutclough Mill, c1930 - CWS00116,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/707.
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