enow.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: 4 shaft weaving drafts

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Dobby loom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobby_loom

    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.

  3. Loom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom

    In the center, devices for performing the motions of weaving. Weaving a tapestry on a vertical loom in Konya, Turkey A Turkish carpet loom showing warp threads wrapped around the warp beam, above, and the fell being wrapped onto the cloth beam below. A simple handheld frame loom. Weaving is done on two sets of threads or yarns, which cross one ...

  4. Double cloth - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_cloth

    Dove and Rose jacquard-woven silk and wool double cloth furnishing textile, designed by William Morris in 1879. [1]Double cloth or double weave (also doublecloth, double-cloth, doubleweave) is a kind of woven textile in which two or more sets of warps and one or more sets of weft or filling yarns are interconnected to form a two-layered cloth. [2]

  5. Shed (weaving) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shed_(weaving)

    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. Warp and weft - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_and_weft

    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 crosses the warp thread. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution facilitated the industrialisation of the production of textile fabrics with the "picking stick" [ 4 ] and ...

  7. Sailcloth - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailcloth

    Viking longships used wool for sailcloth. The cloth was woven in one of three ways, according to locality and tradition: plain weave with individual threads going over and under each other, three-shaft twill with two threads going over and under at each cross thread, and four-shaft twill with thread interwoven with two threads at a time in either direction.

  8. Bradford Industrial Museum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Industrial_Museum

    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. Because foot pedals, or treadles , operate the loom it is still classed as a handloom, but it is much easier and faster to weave as all the motions of the loom are connected via ...

  9. Heddle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heddle

    A handwoven tea-towel will generally have between 300 and 400 warp threads [4] and thus use that many heddles. In weaving, the warp threads are moved up or down by the shaft. This is achieved because each thread of the warp goes through a heddle on a shaft.

  1. Ad

    related to: 4 shaft weaving drafts