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2. Tablet weaving - Wikipedia

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   Tablet weaving is especially freeing, because any pattern can be created by turning individual tablets. This is in contrast to normal looms, in which the complexity of the pattern is limited by the number of shafts available to lift threads, and the threading of the heddles. Tablet weaving can also be used to weave tubes or double weave.

3. Heddle - Wikipedia

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   Single and double heddle looms are types of rigid heddle loom, in that the heddles are all together. Heddles are normally suspended above the loom. The weaver operates them by pedals and works while seated. [6] Among hand woven African textiles, single-heddle looms are in wide use among weaving regions of Africa. Mounting position varies ...

4. Cam shedding - Wikipedia

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   Cam shedding, also known as tappet shedding, is the control of the movement of heald shafts in weaving simple constructions by means of cams or tappets.. In positive cam shedding, the heddle (or heald) shafts are both raised and lowered by the tappets.

5. Shed (weaving) - Wikipedia

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   The shed, the triangular aperture on the far right, shown from the back of a table loom Passing the shuttle through the shed The shed shown in tablet weaving. In weaving, the shed is the temporary separation between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven. The shed is created to make it easy to interlace the weft into the ...

6. 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 ...

7. Reed (weaving) - Wikipedia

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   Handweaving looms (including floor and table looms) use interchangeable reeds, where the reeds can vary in width and dents per inch. This allows the same loom to be used for making both very fine and very coarse fabric, as well as weaving threads at dramatically different densities. [10] The width of the reed sets the maximum width of the warp. [4]