Flip to Women softening silk, Read and Lovatt Manufacturing Company throwing mill, Weatherly, Carbon County, PA, circa 1925.
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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.