The history and principles of weaving by hand and by power : reprinted, with considerable additions, from "Engineering," with a chapter on lace-making machinery, reprinted from the "Journal of the Society of Arts" (1878)
Barlow, Alfred · London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington ; Philadelphia : H. Carey Baird · leaf 145
g. 112, the process mentioned will be at once apparent. It will be seen that at A the figure woven consists of not less than five threads in both warp and weft between each inter- section, and in some places the figure runs nearly across the cloth without any intersection of the weft threads… … This is effected by passing the threads, in groups of five, in this instance, through the eyes of the healds at G, and thence through the healds at D, where they are distributed, each thread having a separate eye. The eyes in these healds are made of con- siderable length, as shown in section, Fig.…
Weaving · Hand weaving · Lace and lace making
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