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Weaving shed, Queen Street Mill, Harle Syke, Burnley, January 1976
Between 1975 and 1980, Daniel Meadows documented cotton mills in north-east Lancashire before they closed down.
Lancashire looms were arranged in alleys, each weaver minding 10 looms.
It was piecework.
When a thread in the warp broke, which happened frequently, the loom stopped for the weaver to ‘take up an end’.
To earn their money weavers needed to keep their looms running.
The touring exhibition Shuttles, Steam and Soot is at FourCorners, London, until 29 March 2025
Loom with a view: Lancashire’s old cotton mills – in pictures Amid the clatter, Daniel Meadows spent the late 1970s shooting the boiler rooms, weaving sheds and ‘mee-mawing’ workers of an industry that has since vanished G Wed 5 Mar 2025 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/mar/05/
Weaver, Queen Street Mill, Harle Syke, Burnley, Lancashire, January 1976
To contend with the appalling noise or ‘clatter’, weavers communicated using lip-reading and gesture known as ‘mee-mawing’
Loom with a view: Lancashire’s old cotton mills – in pictures Amid the clatter, Daniel Meadows spent the late 1970s shooting the boiler rooms, weaving sheds and ‘mee-mawing’ workers of an industry that has since vanished G Wed 5 Mar 2025 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/mar/05/
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