Gilroy, Clinton G · New York, G. D. Baldwin · leaf 105
. In weaving thick and bulky fabrics of cloth there is a cross beamof wood called the breast beam instead of the small roller. SHUTTLE AND QUILL. The Shuttle is made of well seasoned box wood, or of apple tree,and tipped with steel at each end ; it runs upon two small wheelsof iron, or wood, hung… … In the woollen and cotton manufactures, the use of the fly shuttleis almost universal; but in the linen and silk it is still common topass the shuttle through the warp by the weavers band. Theboxes, drivers, spindles, and other apparatus used for throwing the * So called from the weavers depressing…
Weaving
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