The annexed engravings are views of a loom invented by John Gledhill, of this city, for weaving haircloth by power, an invention which is as valuable for the weaving of hair cloth as the power ...
The warp-weighted loom uses a system of holding the warp threads parallel under tension by tying them in small bunches to weights made of stone, pottery or metal. From the beginning of Western history ...
The warp-weighted loom has been used since about 7000 BCE It is not a specialized loom and can be used to weave many things, including blankets and clothing. The most commonly used materials for ...
In the late 19th Century, a Japanese inventor named Sakichi Toyoda created an automatic loom and set up a company working with textiles. While he may have been an inventive and clever entrepreneur, he ...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex ...
Versions of the Jacquard loom were adopted only in France but Great Britain ... The Englishman Charles Babbage greatly admired Jacquard’s invention. He suggested that punch cards might be used to ...
and at the same time requiring the attention of but one person to each loom. It will be difficult to give an accurate or comprehensive description oi the various improvements made by the inventor ...
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