Lowell Mill Weavers
Source: Lowell Mill Girls

Two Woman Weavers, 1860 (Merrimack Valley Textile Museum)
Drawing In
Illustration from A History of Wonderful Inventions (New York: Harper, n.d.) (Merrimack Valley Textile Museum)

Song of the Spinners
Lowell Offering

The day is o’er
No longer we toil and spin
For ev’nings hush withdraws from the daily din
And we spin all day
and then in the time for rest
Sweet peace is found
A joyous and welcome guest
Tis now we sing
with gladsome hearts
The theme of the spinner’s song
That labor to leisure a zest imparts
Unknown to the idle throng
Pine of toil we all agree
or out of the Mills or in
Dependent on others we ne’er will be
So long as we’re able to spin
More Clipart
Page 1: Drop Spindles, buttons
Page 2: Dye vats, Mechanical looms
Page 4: Clipart -Yarn balls, cotton bolls
Page 5: Clipart -Tapestry weavers
Page 7: Clipart – Weaver at a loom
Page 8: Clipart – Weaving room, Distaff Wheel
Page 9: Clipart – Icelandic Spinning Wheel
Page 10: Clipart – Silk Reeling, Cotton Gin
Page 11: Clipart – Flax Retting
Page 12: Clipart – Lowell Mill Girls
Page 13: Clipart – Salish Woman – Emily Carr
Page 14: Clipart – Backstrap Loom
Page 15: Clipart – Spanish Woman Carding Wool
Page 16: Clipart – Hopi Basket Weaver





