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Interior of the Read and Lovatt Manufacturing Company throwing mill in Weatherly, Carbon County, PA, circa 1910.
flipFlip to Women softening silk, Read and Lovatt Manufacturing Company throwing mill, Weatherly, Carbon County, PA, circa 1925.
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This picture is of a winding floor–the silk, probably on the large bobbins that can be seen empty on the tops of the winding frames, would have been drawn up from the vertical spindles on the bottom, and wound onto the smaller horizontal bobbins.

Credit: Courtesy of the National Canal Museum

It was in the throwing mill that raw silk was prepared to be woven into fabric. In 1918 Read and Lovatt employed about 500 in a town of 2,500, and its throwing mill had 42,000 spindles.

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