Bradford Industrial Museum - all the bobbins and spools on the machines are very photogenic. Perhaps there is a reason why the spool ends are painted different colours. I don't suppose it was just in order to delight photographers a century or so later!
They do catch your eye!
ReplyDeleteThere must be a system involved!
ReplyDeleteThere is a system. An expert who renovated the machinery in the Burnley Triangle explained to me that the different coloured spool bobbins indicate one of the following:
ReplyDeleteDifferent materials / thread sizes / different manufacturers.