"Boyce Weaver's Knotter / Mill Devices Co., Gastonia, N.C.", mid 20th C
date: label: Date made
content: No earlier than 1926
label: date made
content: 1926-1975
name: label: maker
content: Mill Devices Co.
label: manufacturer
content: Mill Devices Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Knot tier, weaver's, "Boyce Weaver's Knotter / Mill Devices Co., Gastonia, N.C., U.S.A. No. 54219". An object to be worn on one hand. The four fingers fit through a leather loop strap. The thumb then works the trigger. Used to tie in warps. No earlier than 1926.
label: Description
content: A ubiquitous tool in American textile mills. An essential element in telling the story of the hands that operated the nation’s hundreds of thousands of looms while the American textile industry was at its peak. As an industrial story, in addition, is the preference of textile workers in many countries for certain categories of English-made tools, and the transition of certain types of textile tool-making from its original sources in Europe to American manufacturers, first in New England and the mid-Atlantic states and by the 1920s, in the southeastern US.
label: Description
content: ATHM Collection - # - 1981.22.1.A-B; Gift of Thomas I. Peacock
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: manufacturer
content: United States: North Carolina, Gastonia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: American Textile History Museum Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0232.14
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.14
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Knot tier
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)