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    Evelyn Mitchell and her “Burler”

    Through oral history and archival research, the Swamp Ward and Inner Harbour History Project is revealing the twentieth-century history of two of the oldest neighbourhoods in Kingston, Ontario. Evelyn Mitchell worked at Hield Brothers Woolen Mill in the 1950s when she first arrived in Kingston from Yorkshire. In her interview, she describes in great detail the process by which she did “invisible mending” on the cloth coming out of the looms, picking out and pushing through loose threads. Here she displays the tool she used, a “burler,” which she has saved to this day.
    Submission Year: 
    2016-17
    Photographer's affiliation: 
    Faculty
    Academic areas: 
    Arts and Science
    Photo: 
    Evelyn Mitchell and her “Burler”
    Categories: 
    Faculty / Researcher
    Faculty of Arts and Science
    Department of English Language and Literature
    Society, Culture and Human Behaviour
    Location of photograph: 
    Kingston, Ontario
    Prize name: 
    Photographer's name: 
    Laura Murray
    Display Photographers Affiltion + Faculty or Department: 
    Faculty, English Language and Literature (Affiliated with Cultural Studies)