A practical treatise on weaving and designing of textile fabrics : with chapters on the principles of construction of the loom, calculations, and colour (1885)
Ashenhurst, Thos. R. (Thomas R.) · Huddersfield, [Eng.] : J. Broadbent · leaf 374
366 WEAVING AND DESIGNING cords, and with them such of the warp threads, as have been raised. Then the duty of the draw boy is to pull the lashes I in succession as the weaver throws in the weft, and so by continually drawing the cords over and over again in the order in which they are read, the… … FIG 2. simplest form. At various times machines were invented to supersede, or rather to assist the draw boy in his work, but in all of them the use of the “tail” and “simple” were preserved. They therefore consisted chiefly in mechanical means of drawing the lashes or some apparatus which should…
