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Manufactured by Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co, Dresden, East Germany

Model: 1967, Version 7.0, (A&R:1, Hummel: 030), (produced between 1967-70, quantity 104100)

Version, manufacturing year, body and lens info are as to Andrzej Wrotniak

All Dresden Exactas produced between 1936-70

35mm SLR film camera

Engraving on the top plate: Ihagee Dresden

Engraving on the front plate: VX1000

Lens release: via a lever on the left of the lens flange

Focusing: via Fresnel matte glass screen, ring and scale on the lens, w/DOF scale

Shutter: horizontal focal plane double cloth type,

Speeds: 1) Fast speeds 1/30 -1000 +T, B, dial on the left of the top plate, lift and turn

2) Slow speeds 1/8 - 12, dial knob on the right of the top plate

Setting: turn the knob clockwise as far as it will stop, then lift and turn the outer ring of the slow speed knob to desired speed, (black engravings)

Shutter release: a knob, on front of the body, left side of the lens,

w/ a safety locking cap, and cable release socket, it can be pressed with the plunger on the special lenses, w/ cable release socket also

Cocking lever: also winds the film, short-stroke, right to left film transport, left of the top plate

Frame counter: coupled with winding lever, decreasing type, resets manualy

Mirror Instant return type

View finder: SLR penta prism finder, interchangeable with waist level finder

Finder release: via a knob beneath the Exacta logo

Re-wind: via a Folding crank on the bottom plate

Re-wind release: a push knob, on the top plate, just in front of the cocking lever

Flash PC sockets: three, for X, F, FP

Memory dials : for ASA: on the slow speeds dial knob,

for film type: on the camera support knob, on the left of the bottom plate,

Self-timer: 1) for high speeds: after winding and selecting the high speeds, turn the slow speeds knob as far as it will go and set it any one of the red figures

2) for slow speeds: set the fast speed dial to B and set the low sped dial in your

speed choice : 1/5-2-4-6, after shutter releasing the time elapse is 13 seconds for shot.

Film loading: Special take up spool, removable

Back cover: Hinged, non-detachable, opens via a latch on the left side of the camera

Film-cutting knife: handle on the right of the re-wind crank

Tripod socket: 1/4''

Strap lugs

Body: metallic, Weight:725g (wo/ lens)

serial no.1159027

LENS:

aus Jena T (Tessar) 50mm f/2.8 , (Zebra), 4 elements, fully automatic diaphragm type, (no internal aperture coupling, diaphragm always in open position, pressing the plunger on the lens closes the aperture to the pre-set f number then the shutter releases)

Mount: Exacta bayonet, interchangeable with Exacta Varex lenses,

filter thread: 49mm, serial no.8043601, (introduced in 1961)

Aperture: f/2.8-f/22 , setting: ring and scale on the lens

Focus range: 0.5- m +inf

Ihagee Kamerawerk Steenbergen & Co, in Dresden, which was the largest independent camera manufacturer in Germany and was founded in 1912 by Johan Steenbergen.

Exakta is one of the very first SLR cameras in the world and Exakta was quite expensive camera and it was used mostly by the professionals.

Ihagee never made lenses of the own brand. Many manufacturers made lenses for Exakta.

The East German Zeiss lenses made for export, were marked from 1954 with different engravings. The brand name Carl Zeiss Jena is replaced by C.Z. Jena or Jena or aus Jena.

The lens names Biotar, Biometar, Sonnar, Tessar, Triotar were replaced by the letter B, Bm, S, T, Tr.

The true Exaktas are ones made by Ihagee in Dresden.

Notes about Exa/Exakta classification

I use the Exa/Exakta classification of Andrzej Wrotniak. As to me, it is the best.

Some opinions of a serious Exa/Exakta collector, F W Tappe :

Andrzej Wrotniak uses a very sensible classification, listed on his website, which I personally like the best. It is multi dimensional in setup, without being complicated!

Richard Hummel's 1995 book lists an "one dimensional" classification, which is incomplete, but many sources still refer to this.

Aguila and Rouah (A&R) in their 2003 edition of "Exakta cameras 1933 - 1978", come to an improved classification. They built on their previous 1987 edition classification, which was the leading standard among collectors.

Klaus Wichmann, prolific writer of books about Exakta - and Exa cameras, published his classifications earliest.

More info Captain Jack, Maurizio Frizziero

"La plástica de lo insostenible"

(Manufactured Landscapes DVD)

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Manufactured 2004 by Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. of Japan. An “SLR-Like” 8.0 Megapixel digital camera. It used a Minolta GT 28mm to 200mm (equivalent in 35mm film camera) f/2.8-3.5 lens and a 2/3 inch CCD to produce a 8.0 Megapixels or 3264x2448 pixels image. Like the A1 before it, the A2 had a unique image stabilization system that actually moves the CCD sensor to adjust for camera movement. I’ve personally used it to hand hold exposures down to 1/10 of a second that come out tack sharp! This became so successful, it was used on into the Maxxum digital SLRs and then to the Sony Alpha line. Storage was to Compact Flash cards or MicroDrive. It had a TTL metering system selectable to either multi Segment Metering, Center-Weighted Average or Spot mode. This supported operation modes of full Program, Aperture preferred automatic, Shutter preferred automatic and fully manual. It also had special program “Scene” modes: Portrait, Sports, Sunset, Night and Text. Up to four sets of camera settings could also be saved and recalled by the user. It simulated ISO ratings of 64 to 800. It was NOT interchangeable lens, but did give the feel of a small 35mm SLR—especially with the accessory grip show here (which held an additional Lithium-Ion battery or could be fitted with six AA Lithium or NiMH batteries in a pinch). It could shoot continuously for at approx. 2.7 fps for 3 images and supported shutter speeds up to 1/4000 of a second. There was no optical viewfinder—it used an electronic viewfinder using a Ferroelectric LCD (similar to DiMage 5, but higher resolution) that could be swiveled upwards through 90 degrees, provided a frame coverage of 100%, had diopter adjustment and an automatic mode to detect locality of eye to turn it on. It could even shoot short movie clips! It used high end Minolta accessories such as dedicated flash units and wired remote controls. It could focus as close as 4 inches in macro mode. It had a small built-in flash which could perform red-eye reduction or do fill flash outdoors. It used contrast detection to focus. Manual focus was provided by an electronic "focus by wire" ring at rear of lens barrel and “manual focus after autofocus” was an option. In short—you could do just about anything you could do (and some things you couldn’t) with a high end 35mm SLR on the market at that time EXCEPT change the lens. It was powered by a NP-400 Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery (7.4V 1500mAh).

See also: www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Konica_Minolta/konicaminol...

manufacture

Out of frame to the left is both a warehouse and a separate manufacturing plant called Auburn Manufacturing. Beyond the train is 'Maine Wood' which takes in Centerbeams and up the line about 10 miles in Paris is another NEPW warehouse. With little doubt, the first 15 miles of the SLR is a fierce industrial center in Maine that supports the railroad. At this point the train was a bit late -- waiting on a busted host on the FRED before getting going. The sun was in and out and I opt'd to wait here for a time for the train to arrive. Friendly visits from some Auburn Manufacturing folks and the local PD keep it lively as a bit of bewilderment as they aren't used to folks taking pictures of the trains (mostly because they've run at night for 10 years).

Seen here in Mechanic Falls, ME with a lengthy consist but only the first two units providing the power.

Manufactured by F.E. Dzerzhinsky factory, Kharkov, Ukraine, former USSR

Model: c. 1975 type 4b (produced between ?)

All FED-4 produced between 1964-80 and with quantity 633.096units

There are 6 types and 10 sub-types of the camera,

as to Alexandr Komarov

35mm film rangefinder camera

Lens: Industar-61(ИНДУСТАР ) 52mm f/2.8 Mount: M39 screw mount, filter slip-on serial no.8723878

Aperture: f/2.8-f/16setting: ring and scale on the lens shutter barrel

Focus range: 1-20m+inf

Lens release: simply screw counter-clockwise

Focusing: matching yellow rangefinder images in the viewfinder,

distance scale and ring on the lens, w/ DOF scale

Shutter:rubberized silk double cloth curtain, horizontal focal plane, speeds:1-1/500 +B, setting: dial on the right of the top plate, Not. When setting to low speeds you will hear a clockwork winding voice.

Shutter release: beside the winding lever, w/ cable release socket

Cocking lever: also winds the film, short stroke, retractable, on the right of the top plate

Frame counter: coupled with the cocking lever, advance type, manual reset

Viewfinder: coupled viewfinder/ rangefinder, w/ Diopter correction ring, around eyepiece

Exposure meter: uncoupled Selenium sensor, metering by a needle window on the top-plate

Exposure setting:Set the film speed on the setting dial. Even though the speeds on the dial are in GOST, just set the ASA value; Point the camera to the scene you want to photograph; Turn the light meter dial until the needles in the window match; Read off the suitable shutter speed and aperture combinations on the dial and set the camera accordingly

Re-wind knob: a thumb wheel on the left side of the camera

Re-wind release: set to B the collar aroun the shutter release

Flash PC socket: on front of the camera

Cold-shoe

Memory dial : on the winding knob

Self-timer

Back cover: removable, opens by two folding levers on the top plate

Engraving on the back of the top plate: FED logo, Made in USSR and serial no.

Tripod socket: ¼"

Strap lugs: none

Body: metal ; Weight: 780g

Serial no.8705008

The early Leica cameras, and the other Leica inspired cameras like Canon III, FEDs and Zorkis, and almost any camera which winding also causes the film speed selector turning, always cock the shutter before changing film speeds.

Main difference from FED-3 is added selenium light meter.

The Fed-4 were produced in two versions. The first model (reffered to as Fed-4 (a)) has wind knob and was modified from Fed-3 (a) to accept a light meter. The Fed-4 (b) has much higher viewfinder assembly to add a light meter. The light meter control knob is where the rewind knob was so the rewind knob now sticks out of the side. The Fed-4 (b) camera again was available with either single or dual lettering.

More info: in Fotoua

in Sovietcams

+Original leather ever ready case

Interior of the big nissen type building at Spoland Bridge. They manufacture all sorts of springs in here.

This is the machine that draws the PLA filament into 1.75mm diameter thread would onto spools. The horizontal bath on the right is at 125°C and allows the filament to polymerize slowly before air cooling on the rollers in the center. Photo essay of the manufacturing flow below...

Manufactured by Royal Doulton circa 1920s. Designed by Charles Noke.

Manufactured by Zeiss Ikon, Stuttgart, Germany

Model: c.1966, (Produced between 1965-67)

35 mm film Rangefinder camera

Engravings on the top plate: Contessa LBE

Lens: Carl Zeiss Tessar f/2.8 50mm, serial no. 4010794

Aperture: f/2.8 - f/22, setting and dial ring on the lens-shutter barrel

Focusing: via a ring behind the shutter w/ a handle on it, classical rangefinder matching yellow images in the viewfinder

Focus range: 1-6m +inf, distance scale on front of the lens, w/ DOF scale

Shutter: Prontor 500 LK leaf shutter, speeds 1/15 - 1/500 B+

setting and dial ring on the lens-shutter barrel

Cocking lever: also winds the film, on the back side of the top plate

Shutter release button: on the top plate, right side

Frame counter: a ring and dial beneath the shutter release,

decreasing type and manual setting, w/ film memory window

Viewfinder: Coupled viewfinder/rangefinder, w/parallax correction bright frame

Exposure meter: Selenium cell posemeter, setting ready window on the top plate, a needle just between the two red arrows,

ASA range:10-800, setting: press the small black knob on the shutter ring, and turn the ring to click on desired ASA/DIN,

Re-winding lever: folding crank, on the bottom plate,

Re-wind release: a small knob beside re-winding lever

Self timer: on front of the shutter

Flash sync. 1/30 Automatic flash control by linkage between distance and aperture setting

Hot-shoe

Tripod screw: 1/4''

Back cover: hinged, opens with a knob, left side of the camera

Serial no.G10297

+ever ready case

The Zeiss Ikon Contessa series started in 1950 and got various upgrades and re-modelings up to 1971. The early models were folding type, others made after 1960 were compact type. Zeiss cameras were very well made - even the cheaper versions, like the Contessa LBE.

Variants: There are several variants.

Zeiss Ikon was formed in 1926 out of the merger of five companies: Carl Zeiss/Jena A.G., ICA A.G., Erneman A.G., Goerz A.G, and Contessa-Nettel A.G. and was a huge corporation with offices in five cities in Germany.

The main company Carl Zeiss is most famous with designs as the Tessar and T* coating. Even now, Carl Zeiss lenses are on the many best cameras from Contax to Hasselblad.

After World War II the Soviet occupied territory included both Jena and Dresden.

At that times there were two Zeiss Ikon: One in Soviet occupied East Germany with lens and cameras manufacturing in Dresden and Jena, and a second Zeiss Ikon based in Stuttgart in the US occupied West Germany, at the old Contessa Nettel factory.

After 1959, The state owned factories in Dresden and Jena evolved into Pentacon VEB and lens manufacturing at Jena still called Carl Zeiss Jena.

In 1972, Stutgart Zeiss formed into a partnership with Yashica Corporation of Japan. Zeiss now only does lens design and makes a small amount of photographic lenses. Yashica manufactured the Contax series of Zeiss cameras.

Quai de Jemmapes, Paris 10e

Greenville Manufacturing, Greenville AL.

Made and manufactured by Paco Amusement Co Ltd of Singapore in 1980s. Replaced 1990s Duck kiddie ride "Dopey Duck". Filmed at QQ #1 Superstore, Inc. In 6019 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY on June 10, 2018. This particular model has lost its two decals off the base. The playback speed used to be 0.9 and now it keeps on pitching down. Fitted with EM2021B4 Control box. It played It's A Small World After All. It's gone now :(

おめでとう！写真中の原田さん（現在はDEKU代表やいつもお世話になっているゆかい社中そらぐみさんを中心に作った岡田製樽所のおひつが、2011年グッドデザイン賞を受賞しました。

カタログ写真撮影でお手伝いした私も嬉しい。というわけで、朝からせっせと使っております。

よかったらブログの方もご覧くださいませ。

He is making a big wodden barrel for fermenting miso (soybean paste).

The firm is now manufacturing "ohitsu", a kind of small wooden barrels to put cooked rice in. (Rice tastes better by doing so!)

岡田製樽所で撮った他のフィルム写真は blanc[che] にて。(see more film pics in the linked page:)

Lovely lagoon area in the park, with the Central Manufacturing District clocktower visible behind the trees. This park has a very interesting history. The CPD website recalls, " At the time, Chicago's existing parks were far away from the filthy, noisy, overcrowded tenement neighborhoods in the center of the city. Superintendent J. Frank Foster envisioned a new type of park that would provide social services as well as breathing spaces in these areas. To test the idea, in 1901 the park commission began acquiring property near the Union Stockyards. Composed of open prairie and cabbage patches, the site had previously been the Brighton Park Race Track. The experimental McKinley Park originally offered ballfields, lawn tennis, swimming and wadinglagoon, and a lovely classically-designed bathhouse. More than 10,000 people attended the park's dedication on June 13, 1902. The effort was so successful that the following year the South Park Commission began creating a whole system of new neighborhood parks for the south side. Opened to the public in 1905, the first ten were: Sherman, Ogden, Palmer, Bessemer, and Hamilton Parks, and Mark White, Russell, Davis, Armour, and Cornell Squares. These innovative neighborhood parks influenced the development of other parks throughout the United States..."

Manufacturing Logo

Image of various steel companies' executives at the Galesburg airport in town to inspect Butler Manufacturing's United States grain bin project. Left to right: Ralph L. Gray, James M. Kemper, A. B. Eisenhower (brother of President Dwight D. Eisenhower), and Oscar D. Nelson.

File Name: P-1665o

Date: 1953-08-14

Genre: Photo

Rights: No known copyright

Preferred citation: Courtesy Galesburg Public Library Archives

Photos on Galesburg Public Library's Flickr page are low-resolution scans of photos for personal use. For high-resolution, or to get permission to publish, contact the archivist at archives@galesburglibrary.org or visit www.galesburglibrary.org

Manufactured by Wm. Rennie, Toronto.

"One man with the elevator ditching machine can do more work than thirty men with spades."

SLR Class :- M4

Manufactures Model :- MX 620

Introduction year :- 1975

No of Locos :- 14

Loco Nos :- 743 to 756

Builder :- Montreal Locomotive Works

State :- Canada

Prime Mover :- ALCO V12 25 1 C3

Mode of Power transmission :- Diesel Electric (AC to DC Power Transmission )

Power :- 1700 hp

rpm :- 1050

Weight :- 98 ton

Length :- 58' 3"

Wheel arrangement :- Co-Co

Brake system : - Air and Vacuum

Max speed :- 104 Km/h

Gauge : - 1676 mm

Type :- Locomotive

Purpose/Used line :- Main line Passenger and Freight train Presently not to run beyond Rambukkana.

M4 753,754,755 and 756 were Special designed with Dynamic Brake for Upcountry (Colombo to Badulla) Rail track.

M4 750 damaged due to Bomb blast at near Vavniya in 2000 back in service after repair.

M4 752 re painted Red and Yellow colours for use Jaffna Intercity. again Repainted Blue & Silver.

Upgraded with Air brake at C.M.E. Ratmalana.

M4 751used for Inaugural run “Yal Rani” Passenger Train Between Kankasantrei Murukandi in 11.07.2022

All Locomotives are presently on service.

M4s were named,

743 : Madu

744 : Sigiri

745 : Ruwanweli

746 : Namunukula

747 : Kelani

748 : Walawe

749 : Dunhida

750 : Isurumuni

751 : Diyaluma

752 : Point-Pedro

753 : Samanala

754 : Menik

755 : Mahaweli

756 : Luxapana

Information as at 09.07.2024

Fujifilm Superia 400

presentation of 20 hryven'

banknote in new design

Photo by Julia Berezovska/ Press office NBU

The Sun Manufacturing Company was an early manufacturing business in Columbus, Ohio. It made wood show cases, coffee mills and store fixtures. This building was of heavy timber type construction and built in the early 1900's.

16763U Celebration 3 ba/2 bed 1,178 sf

Old faded wall sign for the long-gone Oregon Macaroni Manufacturing Company in Portland, Oregon.

#Krashkraft

Cable manufacturing, Cable Solutions Worldwide

The company is a front runner in offering contract manufacturing services to tablet manufacturers across the globe.

For more details: nueranutra.com/

Never seen anything like Water Slide manufacturing? Must be a Splashtacular signature ride. Product lines include DrenalineDrop™, DownUnder™, 360 rush™, 360Rush® XT, Double BowlEye, Double BowlsEye XT

Manufactured by: Zebra A/S, Strandgade 71, DK-1401, Copenhagen, Denmark

Imported to UK by: Tiger Retail Ltd, 2 Morwell Street, London,

WC1B 3AR

Batch 236120

97 pieces, new and complete

8x8.25in

20x21cm

Whilst visiting Birmingham's 'Frankfurt Christmas Market' we popped into Flying Tiger, the Danish variety store. To our surprise, we spotted this colourful little wooden jigsaw for sale at a modest £10. A laser-cut push-fit, complete with whimsies and presented in a wooden box with a slide-fit lid, it was a bargain and a 'must-have'. Further investigation on their website informed us that it was sold as a limited edition (presumably for the Christmas period). Remarkably good quality for the price!

2021 piece count: 127793

Puzzle 148

Wm. Knabe & Co. was a piano manufacturing company in Baltimore, Maryland from the middle of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the 20th century, and continued as a division of Aeolian-American at East Rochester, New York until 1982. It is currently a line of pianos manufactured by Samick Musical Instruments.

Knabe Pianos have a rich history behind them...

The Knabe Piano Company was established in 1837 in Baltimore, Maryland.

General Robert E. Lee was a frequent honored guest at the Knabe family home.

Albert Einstein, who was a devoted music lover, owned a Knabe piano.

Brigham Young liked the Knabe pianos so much that he had 3 Knabes at his home in Salt Lake City.

Francis Scott Key (composer of Star Spangled Banner) owned a Knabe.

Hans Von Bulow used a Knabe piano for all of his concert recitals in the United States.

The Knabe piano was the official piano of the Metropolitan Opera house in New York for over 40 years.

In the late 20th Century, the abandoned Baltimore Knabe factory at Eutaw and West streets was razed to make way for the Baltimore Ravens' football stadium. A sidewalk keyboard mosaic on the southwest corner of the stadium honors the Knabe legacy. The cupola that was located atop the factory now stands on the grounds of the Baltimore Museum of Industry.

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CC Credit to Jack Baldwin, The Lead South Australia.

Manufactured by Ernemann AG für Cameraproduktion, Dresden, Germany

Model: c.1925 (produced between 1924-26) as to camerapedia

Folder film camera, film 120 roll, format 6x9cm

Engraving on front of the camera's leatherette: Ernemann

Lens: Ernemann Doppel Anastigmat "Vilar" 105mm f/6.8 filter slip-on

Aperture: f/6.8-f/25 (no click stops)setting: lever and scale on the lens-shutter barrel

Focusing: bellows focusing, by a radial-lever, index,scale and lever on the right-inside of the front cover

Focus range: 1.7-8m +inf

Shutter: Cronos >B< leaf shutter, speeds: 1-1/100 +Z&O (T&B)

setting : lever and scale on the lens-shutter barrel

Cocking and Shutter release: by the same lever, on the lens-shutter barrel

Manuel shutter cocking and releasing on the same time, for the speed settings, by pressing once the lever, the diaphragm opens and closes, (like old box cameras !)

Cable release socket: on the lens-shutter barrel

Winding lever: on the right side of the camera

View finder: Waist level Brilliant Finder on top of the lens and bellows mount plate, turnable 90 degrees left upon its own axis for landscape pictures

Front shift: Bellows can bend over with a sliding part on the lens and bellows mounting plate,

vertical with micrometer screw

Front plate and bellows opening: first pull the front cover by using front cover leg of the camera, then pull the bellows forward by engaging its rails to the front cover mounted rails, then press the two jagged, knob like chrome handles on front of the lens rails to inwards simultaneously, then pull out the bellows as far as reaching to the focus scale,

Closing: simply pull in the bellows as far as it goes, than push to inward the struts

Flash PC socket: none

Self-timer: none

Back cover: hinged, w/ red window, opens by a latch on the top back of the camera

Engraving inside of the front cover: Ernemann

Tripod socket: Old 3/8'' type, two, on the bottom and right sides of the camera

Lugs for hand grip

Body: metallic, Weight: 605g

serial no.1267708

This Bob V folders came with many variations as formats, lenses and shutters.

The Ernemann Bob series includes models with numbers 0 to XV and was produced from 1914 to 1926.

In 1889 Ernemann and his partner Matthias founded Dresdner Photographische Apparate-Fabrik Ernemann & Matthias. In 1899 the company name changed as Heinrich Ernemann, Aktiengesellschaft für Cameraproduktion in Dresden.

Before the first world war, Ernemann employed Johan Steenbergen, who later founded Ihagee, also in Dresden.

In 1926 Ernemann merged with ICA, in Dresden, Goerz in Berlin and Contessa-Nettel in Stuttgart to become Zeiss Ikon.

The new factory (1923) was on Dresden-Striesen and the building's central high-riser is still known today as the Ernemann Tower. This tower later became the symbol of VEB Pentacon. On 1 January 1959, the Dresdner camera manufacturers Zeiss Ikon AG, Niedersedlitz (formerly Noble), Altix, Aspecta Welta united as a large company, which was later named VEB Pentacon in 1964.

CC Credit to Jack Baldwin, The Lead South Australia.

Future umbrellas, Thailand

Avoca Handweavers, now mostly known simply as Avoca, is a clothing manufacturing, retail and food business in Ireland. The company began in Avoca, County Wicklow and is the oldest working woollen mill in Ireland and one of the world's oldest manufacturing companies. It is also Ireland's oldest surviving business. Although commonly believed to have come from Wicklow, the family are from Sligo.

The mill on the banks of the fast-flowing River Avoca survives from at least 1723. Travel to and from the remote village was difficult and a barter system was used. The mill was used for grinding corn for bread and spinning and weaving wool.

In 1760 a Fly Shuttle Loom, capable of weaving up to 20 metres of cloth a day arrived. Workers, concerned about possible unemployment, resorted to burning some looms.

Three sisters, the Wynnes, inherited the mill in the 1920s and introduced colour. Avoca Handweavers tweeds was produced and exported, including for use by Italian designer Elsa Schiaparelli. The material was also used for a waistcoat for King George VI and baby blankets for the children of Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1974, Donald Pratt, a solicitor engaged to handle the sale of the mill which now faced closure decided to buy it himself. Along with his wife, Hilary, a teacher, he set about getting Avoca Handweavers back on its feet. The Pratts began exporting handwoven rugs and throws to the UK and other countries. Avoca throws are still sold across the globe.

Managed now by two generations of the Pratt family, Avoca continues to develop with several large retail outlets around Ireland, including Powerscourt and Malahide Castle, and in Belfast. Many of these also have popular foodhalls & cafes attached as their food operations expand. The Avoca Café Cookbooks have proven to be popular bestsellers.

The company has a number of women's clothing ranges which it sells through its own stores designed by Amanda Pratt, as well as wholesaling in Ireland and internationally. The best known of these is Avoca Anthology.

Avoca is also strongly associated with gardens and has several very rare trees in its Kilmacanogue grounds and one of Ireland's most famous gardens at Mount Usher Gardens in Ashford, County Wicklow. The company employs over 600 people.