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  2. Loom - Wikipedia

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    Two Lancashire looms in the Queen Street Mill weaving shed, Burnley A 1939 loom working at the Mueller Cloth Mill museum in Euskirchen, Germany. A power loom is a loom powered by a source of energy other than the weaver's muscles. When power looms were developed, other looms came to be referred to as handlooms. Most cloth is now woven on power ...

  3. Loom (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Loom, a graphical adventure game; Light Opera of Manhattan, an Off-Broadway repertory theatre company; Looms, fictional machines in the expanded universe of the television series Doctor Who; see Other; Loom (band), an English rock band from Warwickshire; The Loom, American rock band; Loom (Katie Gately album), 1984; Loom (Imagine Dragons album ...

  4. Bolt (cloth) - Wikipedia

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    The machine used for weaving is the loom. and knitting is another method of cloth manufacturing. Bolts [ B ] are the rolls of cloth manufactured by a loom or knitting machine, which moves through subsequent processes of textile finishing .

  5. Narrow cloth - Wikipedia

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    Weaving narrow cloth on a back-strap loom.A lone weaver without a flying shuttle must be able to span the cloth they are weaving with their arms. "Narrow cloth" (streit, strait, [1] narrow ware articles, narrow ware woven [2]) is cloth of a comparatively narrow width, generally less than a human armspan; precise definitions vary.

  6. Shuttle (weaving) - Wikipedia

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    A shuttle is a tool designed to neatly and compactly store a holder that carries the thread of the weft yarn while weaving with a loom.Shuttles are thrown or passed back and forth through the shed, between the yarn threads of the warp in order to weave in the weft.

  7. Weaving - Wikipedia

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    The tertiary motions of the loom are the stop motions: to stop the loom in the event of a thread break. The two main stop motions are the Warp stop motion; Weft stop motion; The principal parts of a loom are the frame, the warp-beam or weavers beam, the cloth-roll (apron bar), the heddles, and their mounting, the reed. The warp-beam is a wooden ...

  8. Warp and weft - Wikipedia

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    The vertical warp yarns are held stationary in tension on a loom (frame) while the horizontal weft (also called the woof) is drawn through (inserted over and under) the warp thread. [1] In the terminology of weaving, each warp thread is called a warp end (synonymous terms are fill yarn and filling yarn ); a pick is a single weft thread that ...

  9. Bead weaving - Wikipedia

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    A bracelet in progress on a bead-weaving loom A 1903 Apache bead loom. 1. Roller. 2. Roller end. 3. Spacers. 4. Spacers. When weaving on a loom, the beads are strung on the weft threads and locked in between the warp threads. Although loomed pieces are typically rectangular, it is possible to increase and decrease to produce angular or curvy ...