The International Exhibition - cotton manufacture: Harrisons sizing-machine, 1862. ...one among the series of interesting machines exhibited by J. Harrison and Sons, of Blackburn. In this machine the yarn is passed from the warpers beams through boiling size and over drying-cylinders, after which it is wound on the weavers beam ready for weaving in the loom, which converts the prepared cotton yarn into cotton cloth. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.