Milling Around- The World of Wooden Bobbins

As well as providing more than 300 illustrations of bobbins and much more besides, this book will explain how and why bobbins were invented as well as some of the machines and mills in which they served to produce, in volumes never previously imagined possible, the yarns and fabrics of the modern world. True, the humble wooden bobbin is today looked upon as an antique, and progress has made it largely extinct in modern manufacturing, but the degree of technological advancement that it represented in its day is as remarkable as anything that has happened since.