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LECTURES

1934-1935

  • 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

1935-1936

  • 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

1936-1937

  • 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.

(average attendance = 50)

1938-1939

  • 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

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

1939-1940

  • 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)

1945-1946

  • 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.

(average attendance = 150; highest = 226)

1946-1947

  • 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

(average attendance = 166; highest = 250)

1947-1948

  • 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

 (average attendance = 147)

1948-1949

  • 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

(reduced average attendance’, but highest = 315)

1949-1950

  • 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

suggested lectures

1950-1951

  • 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

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

1951-1952

  • 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

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

1952-1953

  • 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’)

1953-1954

  • 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

(average attendance = 103)

1954-1955

  • 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

(average attendance = 97)

1955-1956

  • 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

(average attendance = 142)

1956-1957

  • 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

(average attendance = 136)

1957-1958

  • 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

(average attendance = 143)

1958-1959

  • 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

(average attendance = 87)

1960-1961

  • 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

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

1961-1962

  • 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

1962-1963

  • 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

1963-1964

  • 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

1964-1965

  • Woollen carding

  • Production planning and control

  • Materials handling

  • Preparing and blending for woollen spinning

  • The Textima gripper shuttle

  • Wool stretch cloths

  • Colour

1965-1966

  • 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

1967-1968

  • 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

1968-1969

  • 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

1970-1971

  • 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

1971-1972

  • Review of ITMA 1971

  • Transprints – theory and practice

  • Washable fabrics

  • Why knitting?

  • Rationalisation

  • Developments in card clothing

  • Trevira

1972-1973

  • 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

1973-1974

  • 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

1945-1946

1974-1975

(average attendance = 150; highest = 226)

  • 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

1975-1976

  • 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

1976-1977

  • 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)

1977-1978

  • 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

1978-1979

  • 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

1979-1980

  • 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

1980-1981

  • 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

1981-1982

  • 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

1982-1983

  • 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

1983-1984

  • 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

1984-1985

  • 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

1985-1986

  • 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

1986-1987

  • 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

1987-1988

  • 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

1988-1989

  • 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

1989-1990

  • 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

1990-1991

  • 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

1991-1992

  • 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

1992-1993

  • 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

1993-1994

  • 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 identification

  • Wool textiles in a global market

1994-1995

  • 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

1995-1996

  • 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

1996-1997

  • 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

1997-1998

  • 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

1998-1999

  • 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

2000-2001

  • 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

2001-2002

  • 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?

2002-2003

  • 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

2003-2004

  • What future for the British textile industry

  • The Colne valley in its heyday

  • Interesting times

  • 2 other lectures – details not on membership card

2004-2005

  • 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

2005-2006

  • 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

2006-2007

  • 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

2007-2008

  • 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

2008-2009

  • 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

2009-2010

  • 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

2010-2011

  • 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

2013-2014

2011-2012

  • 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

2012-2013

2013-2014

2014-2015

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

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