Mural - the woollen industry, Huddersfield
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Mural - the woollen industry, Huddersfield
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 2 Nov 2017
This depicts scenes from the woollen industry. In the background the water wheel and chimney represent mechanisation and the move from the domestic to the factory system. The man in the grey shirt is holding a pair of hand cropping shears used for cropping the nap of the woollen cloth on the table he is leaning against. It was the development of mechanised cropping frames that was one of the targets of the Luddite movement, represented by the man with a hammer. The mechanised cropping frame could do the work of ten men. A set of hand cropping shears can be seen at the Calderdale Industrial Museum. The woman on the right is operating a spinning jenny.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.644273
Longitude
-1.783048