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48 photos and 2 illustrations tagged textiles, from 16 members of Flickr Commons.

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Weavers at work (LOC)

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  • [ aboring ] said:
    this is all SO very cool!!
  • neotoma73 said:
    It looks like they're weaving rugs and coverlets on jack looms.
  • Patrick said:
    This is indeed awesome...like peering back through a time machine.
  • Erika Morrison Bunda said:
    Beautiful vintage clothing*~*
  • Mark Byron said:
    This photo was taken by my Great Grandfather Percy Byron. The Byron Company NY has a large collection at mcny.org over 22,000 prints.

Rhodes Mfg. Co. Spinner. A moments glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 11 years old. Been working over a year. Lincolnton, N.C., 11/11/1908

  • Gavin Veasey said:
    She was building a better future for the next generation.
  • dead threat said:
    quite the burden to bear as an 11 year old.
  • tohu777 said:
    When you see the kids in these century-old photos, and reflect on the fact that the subjects lived their lives - no matter how long they lived - and are gone, you're made to wonder about all that happened in the intervening years... And just think: her great-grandchildren (if indeed she had children; if indeed she lived through the later flu pandemic circa 1918; or survived polio, or measles...) could be browsing through the images in flickr, unaware that she's pictured here, looking out that window at god-knows what sort of miserable industrial vista...
  • Paul Jackson said:
    Thank you very much for posting this to the Things They Won't Let Us Do Anymore Group.

Woman standing at long row of bobbins, 1936

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