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 193
een woven by a Jacquard machine with 400 needles, such as we have already described, and composed of 400 warp threads per inch in width ; thus the spaces P and P' are 2 in. wide each, for in consequence of the split harness being employed, the 400 needle machine governs 800 threads or double the… … in the last Chapter, may be substituted by altering the working of the harness shafts without afi'ecting the figure itself. A simple circle or spot is the figure shown to be produced, but it may be designed as a flower as at A, or a running flower as at B. In either case the full width of the…
Weaving · Hand weaving · Lace and lace making
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