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A practical treatise on the construction of the power-loom and the art of weaving : all descriptions of texture produced by leaves of heddles : illustrated with diagrams, with calculations and instructions for the production of cotton, woollen, linen, and jute fabrics : intended as a textbook for those engaged in the trade (1883)

Brown, Alex (Alexander) · Dundee : James P. Mathew & Co. ; London : Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. · leaf 134

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130 DRAUGHTS AND TREADING. simple process, illustrated by figs. 33 and 34. They show the shed formed by the leaves of heddles A and B and the looping heddle C. One thread is drawn on the back Fig. 33. A … leaf and another on the front leaf ; the looping thread that binds them together with the weft threads is drawn through a heddle on the back leaf, and also through the flying heddle which is attached to the front leaf. Fig. 33 shows the position of these threads when the front leaf is sunk, and…

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