The art of weaving, by hand and by power, : with an introductory account of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times. For the use of manufacturers and others. (1844)
Gilroy, Clinton G · New York: : George D. Baldwin · leaf 95
. 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 hand. Theboxes, drivers, spindles, and other apparatus used for throwing the * So called from the weavers depressing…
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