Grant silk reel; Cheney Brothers, ca. 1882
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1882
name: label: maker
content: Cheney Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Grant silk reel; Cheney Brothers, ca. 1882. Machine for reeling silk, invented by James Munroe Grant, while employed at the Cheney Brothers silk mill in Hartford, CT. The Grant reel wound the silk in a crisscross pattern, rather than in parallel lines or spirals. This reduced snarling and increased efficiency and productivity. The Grant reel was an important innovation for silk manufacturing and was used around the world.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Manchester, South Manchester
topic: label: web subject
content: Textile Processing and Production
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silk Industry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cheney Brothers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T01060.000
label: catalog number
content: T01060.000
label: catalog number
content: T1060
label: accession number
content: 56298
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Silk Reel, Grant
label: Object Name
content: silk reel, Grant
label: Object Name
content: silk reel
label: Object Name
content: silk reeling machine