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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 ...
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 ...
The power looms also created a lot of vibrations, which forced them to be located on the lower level of the mills, or eventually in separate weave sheds, apart from the main mill buildings. In 1895, the Northrop Automatic Loom was patented in England, Belgium, Germany, Russia, Austria, and Spain. By 1900, Draper had sold over 60,000 Northrop Looms.
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 ...
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.
This category contains types of looms that do not use a shuttle to carry the weft. Pages in category "Shuttleless looms" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
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.