Category: Women at Work

Rags to riches

Turning your shirts into books. This Gem is a picture that tells a story of its own origin: a sketch...

Nice rice

Mill don’t just grind flour. This is a donkey-powered rice mill in China. It makes use of an Edge Runner Stone rather...

A lonely fight for survival

“Newport’s cattle market had not seen anything like it before. There, talking business among the weather-beaten faces of Isle of...

She’s a jolly miller

“With flour-dust sprinkled in her greying hair and a beaming smile [she] runs, all alone, the centuries-old watermill of Thunder...

Curious quern

This Quern is thousands of years old and is one of the earliest ancestors of modern milling. This ancient Gem...

Flour power

“Some of the work in a flour mill requires a good deal of muscular strength, and in peace days such...

Milling for votes

The experience of a national suffrage campaigner which led to the saving of the nation’s watermills. Miss Emilie Montgomery Gardner,...

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