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  2. Hattersley loom - Wikipedia

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    The Hattersley Standard Loom was designed and built in 1921. Thousands of models were expected to be sold, which would bring considerable financial success to the company.[1] After the recapitalisation boom of 1919, cotton yarn production peaked in 1926 and further investment was sparse.

  3. Loom - Wikipedia

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    The word "loom" derives from the Old English geloma, formed from ge-(perfective prefix) and loma, a root of unknown origin; the whole word geloma meant a utensil, tool, or machine of any kind. In 1404 "lome" was used to mean a machine to enable weaving thread into cloth.

  4. Geo. Hattersley - Wikipedia

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    Geo. Hattersley was a textile machinery manufacturer from Keighley, West Yorkshire in England, founded in 1789 and responsible for the Hattersley Standard Loom and other types of looms. History [ edit ]

  5. Dandy loom - Wikipedia

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    A Dandy loom was a hand loom, that automatically ratcheted the take-up beam. Each time the weaver moved the sley to beat-up the weft, a rachet and pawl mechanism advanced the cloth roller. [1] In 1802 William Ratcliffe of Stockport patented a Dandy loom with a cast-iron frame. It was this type of Dandy loom that was used in the small dandy loom ...

  6. Bradford Industrial Museum - Wikipedia

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    The hand loom with jacquard is a wooden hand loom typical of the many thousands of looms that were used in the domestic cottage industry throughout the British Isles. They were gradually replaced by all-metal looms (see the Hattersley domestic loom) and new methods of working practice, such as the factory system, during the Industrial Revolution.

  7. Timeline of clothing and textiles technology - Wikipedia

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    1889 – Northrop Loom: Draper Corporation, First automatic bobbin changing weaving loom placed in production. Over 700,000 would be sold worldwide. 1900 – Heinrich Stoll creates the flat bed purl knitting machine. 1910 – Spiers invents the circular bed purl knitting machine. c. 1920 – Hattersley loom developed by George Hattersley and Sons.

  8. Keighley - Wikipedia

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    Hattersley Domestic Loom built by Geo. Hattersley, Keighley on display at Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Burnley. The town's industries have typically been in textiles, particularly wool and cotton processing. In addition to the manufacture of textiles, there were several large factories making textile machinery.

  9. Dobby loom - Wikipedia

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    A loom from the 1890s with a dobby head. A dobby loom, or dobbie loom, [1] is a type of floor loom that controls all the warp threads using a device called a dobby. [2]Dobbies can produce more complex fabric designs than tappet looms [2] but are limited in comparison to Jacquard looms.