If you have ever struggled to untangle the wires on your headphones, an electrical extension cable or a reel of fishing line, then spare a thought for the workers at Britain's largest yarn processors who are responsible for keeping 1,500 miles of super-thin thread, tangle and snag-free each week. There has been a mill on the banks of the river Dove at Mayfield on the Staffordshire, Derbyshire border in Mayfield since the 1200's. Today thousands of spools and bobbins (known as cheeses), send the nylon and polyester yarn rushing along a labyrinth of frameworks – known as Creels – emerging to form giant webs that fan-out above the mill floor. They then feed into machines that use cameras and laser beams to constantly check up to 1000 threads at-a-time before the filaments contained in each thread are bonded in a glue and then dried. Workers at Britain's largest yarn processors who are responsible for keeping 1,500 miles of super-thin thread, tangle and snag-free each week . Machine Operator Ben Winfield checks the nylon and polyester yarn which is rushing along a labyrinth of frameworks – known as Creels . Warper Bryan Carter checks the 'cheeses' - the thousands of spools and bobbins which send the nylon and polyester yarn along frameworks . The 24-hour operation processes enough yarn each year to go around the world more than three times. Some of the yarns are so thin they are measured by weight with 10,000 thousand meters of some of today's threads weighing-in at only a few grams. Today's yarns are shipped to weaving companies around the world after being wound and twisted on one of the many machines that fill the other end of the factory floor. Mayfield Yarns supplies weavers who use the synthetic yarn to make highly technical and demanding fabrics such as automotive products, parachutes, sail cloth, hot air balloons and loading straps. Production operator Rob Waring 'tying-in' yarns -  the 24-hour operation processes enough yarn annually to go around the world three times . Some of the yarns are so thin they are measured by weight with 10,000 thousand meters of some threads weighing-in at only a few grams . The yarns are shipped to weaving companies around the world after being wound and twisted on one of the many machines in the factory . Mayfield Yarns supplies  yarn to make highly technical and demanding fabrics such as parachutes, sail cloth and hot air balloon straps . Bryan Carter, 59, has worked in the mill for 43 years - he is pictured after a giant spool of yarn was damaged in a customer's factory . There has been a mill on the banks of the river Dove at Mayfield on the Staffordshire, Derbyshire border in Mayfield since the 1200's .
Workers at Britain's largest yarn processors keep 1,500 miles of thread tangle and snag-free each week .
The super-thin synthetic fibres in nylon and polyester are used in everything from parachutes to sail cloth .
The 24-hour operation processes enough yarn each year to go around the world more than three times .
There has been a mill at Mayfield on the Staffordshire, Derbyshire border in Mayfield since the 1200's .
If you have ever struggled to untangle the wires on your headphones, an electrical extension cable or a reel of fishing line, then spare a thought for the workers at Britain's largest yarn processors who are responsible for keeping 1,500 miles of super-thin thread, tangle and snag-free each week. There has been a mill on the banks of the river Dove at Mayfield on the Staffordshire, Derbyshire border in Mayfield since the 1200's. Today thousands of spools and bobbins (known as cheeses), send the nylon and polyester yarn rushing along a labyrinth of frameworks – known as Creels – emerging to form giant webs that fan-out above the mill floor. They then feed into machines that use cameras and laser beams to constantly check up to 1000 threads at-a-time before the filaments contained in each thread are bonded in a glue and then dried. Workers at Britain's largest yarn processors who are responsible for keeping 1,500 miles of super-thin thread, tangle and snag-free each week . Machine Operator Ben Winfield checks the nylon and polyester yarn which is rushing along a labyrinth of frameworks – known as Creels . Warper Bryan Carter checks the 'cheeses' - the thousands of spools and bobbins which send the nylon and polyester yarn along frameworks . The 24-hour operation processes enough yarn each year to go around the world more than three times. Some of the yarns are so thin they are measured by weight with 10,000 thousand meters of some of today's threads weighing-in at only a few grams. Today's yarns are shipped to weaving companies around the world after being wound and twisted on one of the many machines that fill the other end of the factory floor. Mayfield Yarns supplies weavers who use the synthetic yarn to make highly technical and demanding fabrics such as automotive products, parachutes, sail cloth, hot air balloons and loading straps. Production operator Rob Waring 'tying-in' yarns -  the 24-hour operation processes enough yarn annually to go around the world three times . Some of the yarns are so thin they are measured by weight with 10,000 thousand meters of some threads weighing-in at only a few grams . The yarns are shipped to weaving companies around the world after being wound and twisted on one of the many machines in the factory . Mayfield Yarns supplies yarn to make highly technical and demanding fabrics such as parachutes, sail cloth and hot air balloon straps . Bryan Carter, 59, has worked in the mill for 43 years - he is pictured after a giant spool of yarn was damaged in a customer's factory . There has been a mill on the banks of the river Dove at Mayfield on the Staffordshire, Derbyshire border in Mayfield since the 1200's .
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