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  2. Category:Weaving equipment - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Weaving equipment" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. ... Rapier loom; Reed (weaving) Roberts Loom; S. Shuttle (weaving ...

  3. Band weaving - Wikipedia

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    A table-top inkle loom was patented by Mr. Gilmore of Stockton, CA in the 1930s but inkle looms and weaving predate this by centuries. Inkle weaving was referred to 3 times in Shakespeare: in Love's Labour's Lost (Act III, Scene I), Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Act V), and in The Winter's Tale (Act IV, Scene IV). [6]

  4. Drop box (weaving device) - Wikipedia

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    In weaving, a drop box or dropbox is a housing for a shuttle, invented in 1759 [1] or 1760 [2] by Robert Kay (1727-1802) in Bury, Lancashire. [3] The box sits beside a loom and allows one to rapidly switch between two shuttles with bobbins, usually of different colors, making it easier and quicker to weave multiple colors for figured fabrics or ...

  5. Hattersley loom - Wikipedia

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    The plain Hattersley Domestic Loom was specially developed for cottage or home use and designed to replace the wooden handloom; the Domestic is similar in construction to a power loom. It was introduced ca.1900 and the makers claimed that a speed of 160 picks per minute could be easily attained with from 2 to 8 shafts weaving a variety of fabrics.

  6. Tablet weaving - Wikipedia

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    Tablet weaving, Finland (image of finished band). Side view of tablet weaving. Tablet weaving (often card weaving in the United States) is a weaving technique where tablets or cards are used to create the shed through which the weft is passed. As the materials and tools are relatively cheap and easy to obtain, tablet weaving is popular with ...

  7. 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.

  8. Warp-weighted loom - Wikipedia

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    The warp tension needed on a loom is roughly proportional to yarn diameter, and loom weights must be positioned in an even, level row, with all the threads hanging nearly straight down, for smooth weaving. This means that the shape of a loom weight limits a loom to certain thread counts, and the mass of the loom weight is related to the yarn ...

  9. Toyota Industries - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded on 18 November 1926 as Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. by Sakichi Toyoda, the inventor of a series of manual and machine-powered looms.The most significant of these was the 1924 Toyoda Automatic Loom, Type G, a completely automatic high-speed loom featuring the ability to change shuttles without stopping and dozens of other innovations.