LISTS OF LECTURES GIVEN

1934-5

• Fifty years of textiles
• Profit sharing
• Worsted spinning
• The wool outlook
• The hosiery trade
• Re-manufactured fibres
• Lecture by Platt Bros & Co
• Lecture by Metro Vickers
• New chemicals in the textile trade

1935-6

• Twist in yarns and threads - its worth and cost
• Water for scouring and dyeing
• A bird’s eye view of the largest tailoring organisation in the world (Montague Burton)
• The textile trade from an accountant’s viewpoint
• The prospects of modifying normal wool to manufacturing advantage
• The carding engine, past, present and future
• Weaving in relation to dress goods
• Chambers of Commerce and their work
• Modern developments in textile machinery
• The economic situation

1936-7 (average attendance = 50)

• The present wool situation
• How new yarns and fibres have assisted the development of fancy fabrics
• Technical service with reference to production and distribution
• The bankers’ part in the woollen industry
• Felting theory and felting practice
• Home and foreign trade in wool textiles
• The continental system of yarn manufacture
• Woollen carding
• The chemist and the mill
• General methods for the examination of textile oils.

1938-9 (average attendance not given; 3 lectures attracted over 100, one over 200).

• Industry and science
• Textile mill lighting
• Modern developments in woollen yarn manufacture]some aspects of cloth finishing
• Redundant plant and control schemes in the textile industries
• Film: the manufacture of card clothing
• Coloured worsted spinning
• Raw materials for the woollen industry
• Some aspects of fancy wool designing
• The origin and development of the Dobcross four-colour automatic loom

1939-40

• Film: the manufacture and application of the electric motor
• Scientific selling
• Modern power transmission
• Fancy yarns
• The costing of woollen cloth
• Modern improvements in textile machinery
• Woollen carding engines
• Some aspects of the choice of wetting agents
• Faults in fabrics – ‘short papers’
• (note that the whole of this programme was cancelled due to the onset of the Second World War)

1945-6 (average attendance = 150; highest = 226)

• Future of nylon
• Modern methods of carding
• Exports
• Woollen and worsted piece dyeing
• Some methods of modifying the properties of wool to commercial advantage
• Lighting
• Modern improvements in textile finishing machinery
• The cost accountant’s contribution to the science of management.

1946-7 (average attendance = 166; highest = 250)

• Carding
• Motion study
• Fancy yarns
• Automatic wool oiling
• Man-made fibres
• Woollen yarn manufacture
• Recent developments in woollen and worsted finishing
• Winding and warping
• Electronics in the textile industry
• Textile brains trust

1947-8 (average attendance = 147)

• Scientific investigation in woollen carding
• Modern winding and warping machinery
• Aids to management
• Developments in weaving
• Oils and fats and  their use in the woollen industry
• Trends of events and present day problems in the woollen manufacturing industry
• Colour in woollen and worsted fabrics
• Training in the textile trade
• Modern wool ring spinning
• Defects in finishing woollen and worsted fabrics

1948-9 (‘reduced average attendance’, but highest = 315)

• The Peralta machine in woollen carding
• Continuous filament nylon yarn in the wool industry
• American impressions
• Principles of textile research
• The protection of wool against insect pests
• Recent researches in modern carding
• Electric motors in the woollen and worsted industry
• Recent developments in modern detergents
• The Saurer loom
• Wool knowledge – technique and handicraft

1949-50 (suggested lectures)

• Carding
• Weaving
• Finishing
• Spinning
• Film – this is colour
• What the mantle manufacturer expects of the cloth manufacturer
• Automatic blending
• Blending of staple fibre with wool
• Faults in general
• Finishing of face cloths, including billiard cloths

1950-1 (average attendance = 164 – range from 60-272)

• Scouring and milling
• Warp breakages in weaving – causes and remedies
• Principles of woollen carding
• A uniform costing system in the textile industry
• The clothes doctor
• Modern developments in woollen yarn manufacturing machinery
• The adaptability of design in relation to cloth setting
• The Benninger non-stop shuttle changing loom
• Knitting
• Scouring and milling

1951-2 (average attendance = 134 – range from 78-190)

• Some applications of the woollen type card in allied industries
• The manufacture, wet processing and finishing of pressed felt
• Modern loom design and development
• Rag pulling
• Syton in the textile industry with particular reference to woollen and worsted spinning
• Technical efficiency and motion study in woollen carding
• High speed warping
• The story of wool
• Dyeing faults – an explanation for the manufacturer

1952-3 (no attendances stated)

• Research in its relation to industry
• Carding and spinning brains trust
• Cap spinning
• Electronic control applied to the woollen spinning mule
• The future of cloth finishing
• Flight of the shuttle
• An introduction to Fibrolane
• Woollen and worsted carding
• Mechanical handling in the textile industry
• Evolution of fashions in wool
• Film show: 6 films
• Tar branding
• The Australian sheep industry (‘The Golden Fleece’)
• Clothes of the Empire (‘the great variety of clothing worn by people in the British Commonwealth’)
• Harris tweed (‘The Western Isles’)
• From silk worm to parachuteThe impact of wool on the economy of the country (‘Goddess of Merchants’)

1953-4 (average attendance = 103)

• Technical & managerial aspects of woollen carding and manufacture
• Applications of pvc plastics to textiles
• Film show (courtesy of IWS):
  o The discovery of a new pigment (Research and development in dyeing)
  o Queen of the border (Hawick ‘at work and at play’)
  o Story of wool
  o A magic carpet (the sheepskin industry for carpet manufacture)
• Film (courtesy Montague Burton Ltd: Ideals in industry (organisation in a modern clothing factory re men’s wear)
• Orlon acrylic fibre
• The application of radio-active techniques to textile processing problems
• Removal of impurities from carded web
• Recent experiments in worsted yarn production
• End breakage in weaving
• Weave well alone
• Practical application of the new British wool futures market

1954-5 (average attendance = 97)

• Some new developments in winding
• Chemistry in the wool industry
• Defects arising in the processes preparatory to weaving
• Methods of automatic control in woollen carding
• What the retailer wants
• The place of design and colour in modern textiles
• The finishing of fabrics containing wool and man-made fibres
• The Clothes Doctor (‘Ladies’ Night’ – about commercial and domestic cleaning of clothes)
• Film show –sheep farms in different countries; from wool to fabric

1955-6 (average attendance = 142)

• Hopper feeds – new developments
• The examination of fibrous materials in relation to criminal investigation
• British sheep, wool and fabric
• Some practical results of weaving research in mills and laboratory
• Some aspects of automatic weaving
• Melange printing
• Research applied in the textile industry
• The finishing of “Terylene” and “Terylene”/wool

1956-7 (average attendance = 136)

• Trees
• Automatic weaving
• Techniques of blending
• The history and development of fashion in wool
• Trade Union approach to work study
• Changes in Scottish woollens
• Practical woollen yarn manufacture
• The evolution of wire raising

1957-8 (average attendance = 143)

• Future trends in wool carding and spinning
• A consultant looks at work study
• Mechanical faults in textile processing
• Finishing of new blended fabrics
• Semi and full automisation of existing looms
• Shrink resisting wool
• Influence of automation on fabric styling

1958-9 (average attendance = 87)

• Further experiments in wool carding
• Colour, finish and the consumer
• New developments in the training of operatives
• Modern worsted spinning practice: a critical appraisal
• Unusual means of fabric production
• Lecture by J B Speakman
• The problems of uniformity in wool growth
• The British wool industry in a free trade area
• Fashion show

1960-1

• Carding in the Scottish woollen industry
• Some troubles of the maker-up
• Colour and design in the textile industry
• Recent developments in worsted textile machinery
• The Crompton & Knowles “Papa” loom
• 3 short lectures – local industry
• Modern piece scouring methods in relation to uneven dyeing
• Requirements of loom design
• Potential developments in the finishing of woollen and worsted fabrics

1961-2

• The Platt-Joseph woollen card for coarse and fine counts
• Planning for re-equipment
• Soaps and detergents used in wool processing
• Fashion merry-go-round
• Schweiter automatic pirn and super cop winding
• Advertising in relation to textiles
• The reason for designing
• The continuing battle to improve worsted yarns
• Courtelle – fibre to fabric

1962-3

• Prospects for automation in woollen yarn manufacture
• Whither wool
• Tufting
• New developments in woollen and worsted finishing machinery
• Developments at Dobcross
• Developments in the setting of wool textiles
• Some considerations of mule and frame spinning
• 1 lecture tba

1963-4

• Trends and developments in carding
• Man made fibres and yarns
• The Snoek rapier loom
• The Italian and Japanese textile industries
• Foambacked fabrics
• The Mackie approach to wool and man made fibres
• The problem of static electricity
• Two for one twisting

1964-5

• Woollen carding
• Production planning and control
• Materials handling
• Preparing and blending for woollen spinning
• The Textima gripper shuttle
• Wool stretch cloths
• Colour

1965-6

• The Jungbauer system of vacuum stripping of cards
• Explanation and use of the tex system
• Recent developments in woollen frame spinning
• Electronics and cloth finishing
• Aspects of new developments in weaving
• The designer’s dream (Thieron novelty and high speed twisting)
• Colour television

1967-8

• Fashion in textiles
• Trends in weaving machinery development
• The Platt system of semi-worsted yarn manufacture
• Du Pont and the West Riding
• Investigations on break spinning methods at the Shirley Institute
• Export marketing
• Textile processing oils
• Wool makes its mark

1968-9

• Nonwoven fabrics for the woollen industry
• Nep formation in carding
• Continuous method of weft insertion
• The worsted industry in Japan
• Management services in wool textiles
• The Garnett-Bywater web forming and needle punching machine
• The computer link at WIRA

1970-1

• Developments in textile machinery
• The problems of the maker up
• The production and use of novelty yarns
• Productivity in preparatory processes
• Management by objectives and its use by smaller firms
• Some common cloth faults
• New fibres and novel textile products

1971-2

• Review of ITMA 1971
• Transprints – theory and practice
• Washable fabrics
• Why knitting?
• Rationalisation
• Developments in card clothing
• Trevira

1972-3

• Study of the report by Atkins Planning
• The challenge of textile marketing
• Nonwoven apparel fabrics – the fibre lock approach
• Rag-tearing machinery and woollen and worsted blending machinery
• Recent developments in nonwoven materials
• Woollen and worsted carding and spinning machinery
• Weaving, dyeing and finishing machinery for woollen and worsted fabrics

1973-4

• The present and future structure of the woollen textile industry
• Guarding of textile machinery
• Fashion show
• Blended fabrics containing Terylene
• Lecture by Haigh-Chadwick
• A general review of new methods of yarn production
• Developments in weaving technology

1974-5

• Woven and tufted carpet developments
• Shift work – some principles and problems
• Retail textiles
• Nonwoven fabrics
• Break spinning
• Modern trends in the vacuum steaming of textiles in autoclaves

1975-6

• The changing scene
• Textile education and group training
• New European standards for cloth faults
• Recent legislation and its implications for textiles
• The future of the clothing industry
• Troyfil process – colouration of contaminated piece goods
• Quality control in woven fabric production

1976-7

• Opening address
• The future of the textile industry
• Axispinner
• Why export?
• Recent developments in the law and people at work in textiles
• ‘Lecture’ (by P P Townend)

1977-8

• Lecture by Bulmer & Lumb
• Open evening
• The role of technology in retailing
• The work of the Wool Textile Economic Development Committee
• Lecture by Joe Hyman (Crowther Group)
• The importance of export strategy in wool textiles

1978-9

• Lecture by Woolcombers
• Water
• The wool textile industry’s career structure proposals
• Energy conservation in the textile finishing industry
• Modern fibre blending plants
• Making money in textiles
• 1 lecture –title not on membership card

1979-80

• The Galaxy carding system
• Textiles tomorrow
• The principles of exporting
• Design, erection and commissioning of a spinning mill
• Developments in finishing machinery
• How to make real returns from textiles
• 1 lecture –title not on membership card

1980-1

• The British wool textile industry and the third wave
• The future of the UK industry in the EEC
• Present-day requirements for apparel cloths
• Developments in lubricants and additives in textile processing
• 2 lectures – titles not on membership card

1981-2

• Very nice but will it clean
• A different view of textiles
• Modern developments in carding and spinning
• New shuttleless weaving machinery/Developments in high bulk pp fibre processing machinery
• Research associations under present conditions

1982-3

• Weight control in card feeding
• Communication on quality
• Insolvency matters
• Recent developments in wool processing
• Wool marketing 1983
• The history and development of textile mills

1983-4

• ITMA retrospect
• Weaving with information
• Plain and fancy yarns, the hollow spindle way
• The fine line
• Microbial spoilage of textiles
• S R Gents present and future

1984-5

• The future of the UK wool textile industry
• Yarn production – the benefits of machine monitoring
• Developments in yarn manufacture
• Mildew growth on textile materials
• Somet Master SM92

1985-6

• The retailing revolution
• Computer Aided Design in textiles and colouration
• The policing of West Yorkshire
• Finance for management buyout
• The Stock Exchange/textile industry interface
• Quality control in textiles and clothing

1986-7

• Has package dyeing a future?
• A new look at international trade
• An explanation of group training and YTS
• Fancy yarn design and high fashion
• A five point plan for wool to the 1990s
• Finishing in the year 2000
• Fashion in woven textiles
• Quality control in textiles and clothing
• Weaving with ease
• Advances in textile machinery development

1987-8

• The future for European textiles
• Electrical techniques in the textile industry
• Taking jacquard weaving into the 1990s
• Latest developments in winding and splicing
• The latest in Somet weaving
• Dynamic response
• Cotton textiles – the challenge ahead
• Paris fashion fabrics

1988-9

• Today’s problems and tomorrow’s opportunities
• BS5750: quality systems
• Latest developments in air jet technology and their commercial applications
• The match prediction of blended coloured fibres
• Cerifil spinning – replacement for ring spinning
• Spinning towards zero defects
• Readicut International – the story of a textile company’s revival
• Ladies’ evening

1989-90

• Towards 2000: the future environment for the British textile industry
• Nonwoven textiles in the bedding industry
• BTTG – and the benefits it offers to the textile industry
• Computer Aided Design – present and future
• Suessens contribution to spinning for today and the future
• Profit engineering – garment production
• Sulphur dyeing in the modern dyehouse/Automation in the dyehouse: planning for the future
• The NWTEC and 1992

1990-1

• Environmental issues in wool processing
• British textiles – towards the year 2000
• Training within textiles
• The importance of fibre blending for product quality
• A critical review of modern spinning techniques
• New developments in electronic flat knitting machines
• A family and its weaving business
• Chemical coatings on textile materials

1991-2

• Can British textiles survive another 5 years?
• A move into the 90s
• The Environmental Protection Act 1990: an introduction and its implications for industry
• The UK in 1999: Portugal without the good weather?
• Working together
• Images for the 1990s

1992-3

• Kosset Carpets post Coloroll
• The implications of environmental legislation for the UK industry
• Towards total quality
• Flaming textiles
• Thoughts on the textile industry
• Cool wool
• The Stock Exchange view of the textile industry
• Developments in the wool industry in Australia

1993-4

• Camborne Fabrics
• Glass fibre textiles for thermal protection
• The press and wool textiles
• Kosset – life after Coloroll
• Design means business
• A textile view of environmental protection – Courtaulds textile approach
• Sorting sheep from goats – fibre identificatio
• Wool textiles in a global market

1994-5

• Toray Textiles Europe – the Japanese experience
• Global markets for wool textiles
• Finishing with quality
• Warp knitted technical textiles
• Aspects of carding
• Cotton in a competitive world

1995-6

• Environmentally-friendly colour in textiles
• ITMA Forum: yarn, weave, knit, dye, finishing
• Corporate bartering in textiles
• New developments in weaving
• Textiles and the environment in the future

1996-7

• Eco textiles – what dyes can we use
• Exporting to the clothing trade
• The changing world of medical textiles
• Profit and productivity from an unexpected source
• Industry for charity’s sake

1997-8

• Looking to the future
• Making environment management work
• Long term business success
• Rapier weaving in the new millennium
• Perspectives on the retail environment
• The UK – jewel in Europe’s crown?
• Economic sample and production warping

1998-9

• Play your cards right
• Tencel – a revolution in cellulosic fibres
• Film – archive footage
• Lycra – a fibre for the 21st century
• New ways to use computer power in textiles
• Where are we with quality?

1999-2000

• The Textile Centre of Excellence – training and education
• New ways of using computer technology in textile design and marketing
• The way ahead
• Niche market for woollens – textiles for theatre and films
• Managing your balance sheet in the new millennium

2000-1

• A stitch before time
• Textile Society quiz
• The future of short-run fabric printing
• Always making the fashion
• Smart fibres
• Closed-loop recycling of carpet industry waste material

2001-2

• Bon Marché – a niche market
• The use of textiles in civil engineering earthworks
• Adding value through change
• The only constant is change
• The UK – still Portugal without the good weather?

2002-3

• The power of design-led business
• The wool textile industry: past, present and future
• Textile archives
• Textiles and clothing in Yorkshire – the challenge ahead
• Lubricants for woollen spinning – a change is on the cards
• Textile names

2003-4

• What future for the British textile industry
• The Colne valley in its heyday
• Interesting times
• 2 other lectures – details not on membership card

2004-5

• Environmental business support
• Smart textiles
• Textiles and the family firm in West Yorkshire – the paternalist tradition
• The retail sector’s view of modern textiles
• Designers for industry: we need each other
• Fashion retailing

2005-6

• Weaving technology
• White Rose lecture
• Textile innovations
• Weaving the story
• Reliance Textile Industries – a company profile
• Textile and manufacturing in the region
• Nanotechnologies for textiles

2006-7

• REACH – the regulation, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals
• Is there a future for textile manufacturing in the UK?
• Textile films
• China and textiles – challenges and opportunities
• Students reporting
• Our past is our future

2007-8

• Blurring the boundaries
• Cricket and textiles in the Huddersfield area
• A sustainable future for textiles
• UK weaving in the 21st century
• The history and future of military textiles

2008-9

• Marketing and manufacturing – a fabric-ated story
• Relaunch of ‘Woolmark’ brands
• Film show – from the Yorkshire Film Archive section
• Moors to luxury floors
• Cloths made in Yorkshire – the best in the world

2009-10

• Wool: past, present and future
• The felt connection
• Leeds Fashion Works for Yorkshire textiles
• Sustainability or profitability – can we afford both?
• Lecture by Baltex Ltd
• Zandra Rhodes: a lifelong love affair with textiles
• The business of excellence

2010-11

• Development of an advanced personal protective equipment garment for protection against slashes and cuts
• Why manufacture textiles in Yorkshire?
• Presentation by the Fashion Department of the University of Huddersfield
• Savile Row tailoring for cars
• A week in the life of a retail fabric technologist
• The Campaign for Wool patron – HRH The Prince of Wales
• From hand loom to power loom
• Opportunities in the technical textiles sector

2011-12

• Wool, probably the best fibre in the world
• Regeneration
• The textile innovation
• Fashion - back to the future?
• Can you believe your eyes?
• Building global niche brands and the renaissance of the Cooperative and Fair Trade movements. How can this help local textile companies?
• A love hate relationship with couture
• The first new worsted spinning mill for over a generation

(Note that some meetings are held jointly with the Bradford Textile Society)

 EXCURSIONS

1934-5 (2)

• British Dyers
• Wool Industries Research Association (Leeds)

1935-6 (2)

• C & M Sumrie (Leeds)
• Shirley Institute (Manchester)

1947-8 (4)

• Huddersfield Corporation sewage department
• Montague Burton Ltd (Leeds)
• Huddersfield Corporation electricity works
• Slazengers, Horbury

1948-9 (4)

• Firths Carpets (Brighouse)
• CID (Wakefield)
• Huddersfield Corporation gas works
• City of Bradford Conditioning House

1950-1 (6)

• Wm Whiteley & Sons Ltd
• J Bailly-Ancion Ltd (Marsden)
• Bulmer & Lumb Ltd (Bradford)
• Jerseycraft Ltd (Lockwood)
• David Brown & Sons Ltd
• Paton & Baldwin Ltd (Darlington

1951-2 (6)

• Sellers & Co
• Mather (Hopton) Ltd (Burnley)
• Wilson & Longbottom Ltd
• Wm Kenyon & Sons Ltd (Dukinfield)
• Thos Burnley & Sons (Gomersal)
• Woolley Colliery

1952-3 (6)

• Holme Moss television station
• Montague Burton (Leeds)
• T P Firth & Sons
• Hopkinsons Ltd
• Charles Walker & Co Ltd
• R L Beanland & Co

1953-4 (5)

• JohnBright & Co (Rochdale)
• T W Broadbent Ltd
• The British Picker Co (Todmorden)
• The Huddersfield Corporation Sewage Works
• Department of Textile Industries at Huddersfield Technical College

1954-5 (2)

• Mark Day Ltd (Dewsbury)
• J Brooksbank (Skipton)

1955-6 (2)

• Homfray & Co Ltd (Sowerby Bridge)
• Thomas Ambler & Co Ltd (Bradford)

1956-7 (3)

• The British Thomson Houston Co Ltd (Chesterfield – glass manufacturers)
• Redfearn Bros Ltd (Barrnsley – bottle manufacturers)
• John Smith’s Tadcaster Brewery

1957-8 (4)

• “Use Development” Centre, Courtaulds Arrow Mill (Rochdale)
• Park Gate Iron and Steel Co Ltd (Rotherham)
• J C Croydsdale (Parkland Manufacturing) (Bramley, Leeds)
• Textile Departments at Leeds University

1958-9 (3)

• Machinery and Accessories Exhibition (Belle Vue, Manchester)
• Daily Express print works (Manchester)
• David Brown Corporation (Meltham)

1960-1 (3)

• Martins Dyers and Cleaners (Bradford)
• Wood Bros Glass Co Ltd (Barnsley)
• The Home Office Forensic Science Laboratory (Harrogate)

1961-2 (4)

• Joseph Newsome & Sons Ltd (Batley Carr)
• Montague Burton Ltd (Leeds)
• Joshua Tetley & Son Ltd (Leeds)
• Huddersfield Fire Station

1962-3 (3)

• Singer-Cobble Ltd (Blackburn)
• The Daily Mail newspaper (Manchester)
• Hartley Brothers (Ravensthorpe) Ltd

1963-4 (4)

• Emley Moor Colliery (Emley)
• J H Heal & Co Ltd (Halifax)
• The Birstall Carpet Co Ltd (Birstall)
• J Mackie & Sons Ltd (Belfast)

1964-5 (5)

• Hepworth Iron Co Ltd (Hazelhead)
• Sandoz Products Ltd (Horsforth)
• Walpamur Paints Ltd (Darwen)
• Thomas Burnley & Sons Ltd (Gomersal)
• Houget Dueserg Bosson S A (Belgium – 2-day visit)

1965-6 (3)

• John Crossley & Sons Ltd (Halifax)
• John Quarmby & Son Ltd (Milnsbridge)
• The Park Gate Iron and Steel Co Ltd (Rotherham)

1967-8 (5)

• 2-day visit to Basle
• Storthes Hall hospital (Kirkburton)
• Samuel Webster & Sons Ltd (Halifax)
• R L Shaw & Co (Golcar)
• Baird Television Ltd (Bradford)

1968-9 (2)

• Dewsbury Gas Works
• Rolls Royce Ltd (Crewe)
• 2 visits to ‘audience participation shows’ at Yorkshire Television (Leeds)

1970-1 (4)

• John Mackintosh & Sons Ltd (Halifax)
• Star Paper Mills Ltd (Barnsley)
• ITMA (Paris)
• 1 visit tbc

1971-2 (3)

• UG Glass Containers Ltd (Castleford)
• Bachelors Foods Ltd (Sheffield)
• Brewery visit

1972-3 (3)

• Mintex (Cleckheaton)
• Huddersfield GPO new sorting office
• Visit to Prato (Italy)

1973-4 (3)

• Brooksbank Tannery (Skipton)
• New Police headquarters (Huddersfield)
• Visit to a coal mine

1974-5 (2)

• Bass Charrington (Tadcaster)
• Shaws Carpets

1975-6 (2)

• Montague Burton Ltd (Leeds)
• David Brown tractors (Meltham)

1976-7 (1)

• I Solomon & Co Ltd (Whitefield)

1977-8 (1)

• Air Traffic Control: Manchester Airport

1978-9

• (details not on membership card)

1979-80

• Huddersfield Town Hall
• Sybro Spinning Co Ltd

1980-1 (2)

• Golcar Museum
• Wilson’s Brewery (Manchester)

1982-3 (2)

• Haigh-Chadwick
• Brewery visit

1983-4 (1)

• Samuel Webster (Halifax)

1984-5

• (details not on membership card)

1985-6 (2)

• James Heal & Co (Halifax)
• J L Brierley Ltd

1986-7 (1)

• J & E Dickinson (Holmfirth)

1987-8 (1)

• ITMA

1988-9 (3)

• Suncharm Ltd (Honley)
• Dorma CV Home Furnishings (Manchester)
• F Drake & Co Ltd (Slaithwaite)

1989-90 (2)

• Mossley Woolcombing and Spinning Co Ltd (Mossley)
• Suncharm Ltd (Honley)

1990-1 (3)

• Coca-Cola & Schweppes Beverages Ltd (Wakefield)
• Priest (Lindley) Ltd (Cleckheaton)
• Crosrol Ltd (Halifax)

1991-2 (3)

• Fred Lawton & Sons Ltd (Meltham)
• New Huddersfield Examiner Office
• C & J Antich & Sons Ltd

1992-3 (1)

• Kosset Carpets Ltd (Bradford)

1993-4 (1)

• Heckmondwike Carpets (Liversedge)

1994-5 (3)

• Toray Textiles (Europe) (Mansfield)
• Parkland Manufacturing Co (Lockwood)
• Welbeck Technical Textiles (Mansfield)

1995-6 (2)

• IWS (Ilkley)
• Bradford Industrial Museum

1996-7 (2)

• Tetley’s Brewery (Leeds)
• C & J Antich & Sons Ltd

1997-8 (2)

• S Lyles & Co Ltd (Dewsbury)
• Yorkshire Mining Museum (Middlestown)

1998-9 (2)

• Wool Processors Ltd (Gomersal)
• Jorvik Museum (York)

1999-2000 (2)

• Haworth Scouring Co Ltd (Haworth)
• National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (Bradford)

2000-1 (2)

• William S Graham Ltd (Ravensthorpe)
• Manchester United FC

2001-2 (2)

• Avena Carpets (Halifax)
• W M Fibres Ltd (Knowsley)

2002-3 (2)

• John Cotton (Mirfield) Ltd
• Sharps Fabric Printers (Yeadon)

2003-4 (1)

• The Colour Museum (Bradford)
• Camira (Hopton)?

2004-5

• (details not on membership card)

2005-6

• (details not on membership card)

2006-7 (1)

• Spectrum Yarns Ltd (Slaithwaite)

2007-8 (1)

• Hewitt & Booth

2008-9 (2)

• Westwood Yarns Ltd (Holmfirth)
• Abraham Moon Ltd (Guiseley)

2009-10 (1)

• Bower Roebuck & Co Ltd (New Mill)

2011-12

• Camira (Hopton, Meltham)

2015

• The Campaign for Wool - A New Era of Wool Marketing
• Weave Design & Virtual Sampling Using Shima Seiki’s Apex 3 Design System

2016

• What Makes a Great English Brand? How to Add Value, Build Equity & Engage Markets
• English Fine Cottons - Sole Spinner, Made in Britain
• Automotive Textiles - Innovation in a Global Market
• Interface - Pioneers in Sustainable Flooring

2017

• Making the Best Mountain Shirt in the World
• The Woolmark Company - Exploring The Potential Of Australian Merino Wool
• Woven Protective Shields - The Science Behind The Airbag
• Textiles In Huddersfield

2018

• 2D-3D Woven Engineered Outer Surface and Internal Structural Forms
• Transitions 2: Material Revolution - University of Huddersfield
• Wool - The Pinnacle of Natural Fibre
• Transparency - Not Seeing the Wood for the Trees
• TBC

2019

• Textile Digital Printing, The Two Sides of Sustainability and Future Developments 

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