Carding: The carding room was located on the ground floor because of the heavy weight of the machinery. It was also accessible from the picking house where machinery opened and cleaned the baled cotton. "The initial carding and drawing operations transformed the loose cotton into a coarse roving that spinning frames on the second floor drew down and twisted into yarn." (Dublin, p.62)

Drawing: Drawing followed carding. " Drawing frames stretched four or more strands of sliver and then recombined them into a single strand of the original size. Gears regulated the speed of successive pairs of rollers so that the slivers were stretched slightly between the first pair of rollers and still more between the later pairs. This drawing down and recombining was usually repeated three times in succession, thus producing a sliver which was much more even and uniform than that produced in the earlier carding step." (Dublin, p.63)

Speeders: This was the last set of machines in the carding room. "The double speeders further drew down the sliver and gave it a slight twist to enable it to withstand additional reducing in the spinning step. The coarse roving produced, considerably finer than the earlier sliver, was not suitable for coiling, but rather was wound on large bobbins. The winding on the double speeder proved a delicate step calling for considerable skill and judgment." (Dublin, p.63)

Spinning: "The throstles took coarse roving and drew it out between successive pairs of rollers and then twisted it by the action of a flyer revolving about a bobbin. Depending on subsequent use, yarn could be drawn out to varying thickness and given more or less twist. Spinning throstles produced two kinds of yarn to serve different purposes in the subsequent weaving step. Filling yarn, spun directly onto shuttle bobbins, went straight to the weaving room, but warp yarn had to undergo several intermediate steps." (Dublin, p.64)

Winding: " In the winding room women tended machinery that wound warp yarn off small bobbins onto larger spools.

Dressing: "In the dressing room women workers placed several hundred of the spools onto a rack, or cradle, and a warping machine wound the parallel warp yarns onto a yard wide beam. Dressing frames treated the warp with a starch pasted, called sizing, dried the yarns by fan, and rewound them onto a second beam. Finally in one of the few hand processes in production, women drew the sized warp yarns individually through the loom reed and harnesses in preparation for weaving." (Dublin, p.64)