Natural fibre from the soft hair of sheep or other mammals

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An itinerant salesman selling small woollen toys from a wicker baket. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.

Machinery: card wire maker. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. Farey.

Textiles: a spring pen-holder and parallel rule (above), a rack for stretching woollen fabric (below). Engraving by G. Gladwin after C. Varley.

Textiles: three stages in the production of woollen cloth, cutting the nap (top), washing [or sizeing ?] (centre), and pressing (bottom). Engraving, 1750.

Textiles: a spinning jenny. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811.

Copper-deficient & copper-replete fleeces

Textiles: a spinning machine. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. D. Herbert.

An old Afghan man sits with a woman and child on the ground smoking a hooka. Wood-engraving after F. Dadd.

Textiles: a belt-driven cutting machine. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811.

Textiles: tapestry dyeing, three workmen in a textile dyeing workshop (top), a basket and bucket (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

Textiles: a stretching machine [?]. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. D. Herbert.

Textiles: a carding machine. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1809, after J. D. Herbert.

Instruction sur les diverses maladies des bêtes a laine : avec les remèdes curatifs les plus salutaires / Par le comte Henry de Chastenay.

Selections from essays on health-culture and the sanitary woollen system / by Gustav Jaeger.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Examen du sentiment de M. Roland de la Platiere, sur les troupeaux, sur les laines, & sur les manufactures.

Specification of Theophilus Westhorp : lint.

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Wool

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Works from the collections

Instruction sur les diverses maladies des bêtes a laine : avec les remèdes curatifs les plus salutaires / Par le comte Henry de Chastenay.

Selections from essays on health-culture and the sanitary woollen system / by Gustav Jaeger.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Examen du sentiment de M. Roland de la Platiere, sur les troupeaux, sur les laines, & sur les manufactures.

Specification of Theophilus Westhorp : lint.

Wool

Images from the collections

Images referencing Wool

Works from the collections

Instruction sur les diverses maladies des bêtes a laine : avec les remèdes curatifs les plus salutaires / Par le comte Henry de Chastenay.

Selections from essays on health-culture and the sanitary woollen system / by Gustav Jaeger.

Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries

Examen du sentiment de M. Roland de la Platiere, sur les troupeaux, sur les laines, & sur les manufactures.

Specification of Theophilus Westhorp : lint.

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