History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) (1922)
Boston : Frank P. Bennett · leaf 24
ghts attached to the beams. Theprincipal motions in weaving are shedding,or raising the warp threads to allow the pass-age of the interlacing shuttle; picking, orthrowing the shuttle through the warp; andbattening, or forcing the filling into a com-pact mass. The shedding in the colonial plain… … In Days Gone By—The Old-Fashioned Loom and Spinning Wheel (Courtesy rf Draper Company) First the yarn was wound onto a clock reelthat ticked when it was set for a definitelength of skein. The skein was thenstretched on a swift, and the yarn woundonce more onto bobbins for the loom. Asthe weaver…
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