Students wrote: 

  Our first stop in the mill was the weave room.  There were 88 looms in the room; eight of them were actually working.  They
 made a terrible racket!  When the room was in full operation, 150 looms would have been operating.  The weave room would have been a noisy place. 

Here is what a real mill girl looked like.
 
 
 

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