Textile Heritage Museum at Glencoe, North Carolina

EXHIBITS

     
The Undying Art of Dyeing---Ancient to Modern Times

   History of the art of dyeing on 6 large boards: ancient to modern times, natural dyes exhibit, mid-18th century
   embroidered bed hanging pieces, Cone's indigo blue-dyed hanks of yarn for blue jeans, commercial dye pot advances,
   Sunbrella awning fabric samples, a hand-loomed tapestry of a 1904 Bayer Company dye label, and much more.
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Museum exhibits:

 
Dyeing demonstration
 



Weaving demonstration on an 1830s floor loom

 

 



 


1960s era Draper industrial loom
 







 Demonstrating an old time toy
next to a mill village house model.
 







Circular Knitting
Machine

 

 

 




The beginning of the
computer:

1890 Piano Machine
for designing cards 
used to create the pattern
to be woven on the JACQUARD loom



 








1890 Card Lacing machine
         and Bobbin (cop) Winder 
 


 
 








1890 Card Repeat Machine 




 

 

 
 


 

 

 





 

 

  

 

 

    

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