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2. 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]

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Category:Textile machinery - Wikipedia

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   Weaving equipment (1 C, 31 P) Pages in category "Textile machinery" ... Power loom; R. Rapier loom; Ring spinning; Roberts Loom; S. Schiffli embroidery machine ...

7. Flying shuttle - Wikipedia

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   Holding the reed beater bar in the left hand, and the (picking-stick-mounted) string tugged to return the flying shuttle in the right hand.See video below. In a typical frame loom, as used previous to the invention of the flying shuttle, the operator sat with the newly woven cloth before them, using treadles or some other mechanism to raise and lower the heddles, which opened the shed in the ...

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9. Heddle - Wikipedia

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   Three different types of heddles: a wire, flat steel, and a repair heddle Inserted eye wire heddles Patent model of a mechanized loom with string heddles. A heddle or heald is an integral part of a loom. Each thread in the warp passes through a heddle, [1] which is used to separate the warp threads for the passage of the weft.