A practical treatise on weaving by hand and power looms; intended as a text book for manufacturers by hand and power looms, and power loom engineers .. (1846)
White, George · Glasgow, J. Niven · leaf 44
ck homewith the left hand, which always rests on the lathefor that purpose. 21. These motions by this method of weaving areperformed in a very short space of time ; usually, onyard wide work, at about the rate of an 100 shotsper minute. In broad work where the shuttle re- ON WEAVING BY HAND. S3… … Fig. 19. Transverse Section of the Modern Hand Loom. of the fly-shuttle, inasmuch as all w^ork woven bythe old method, of a greater width than the weavercould embrace within his extended arms, was ne-cessarily done by two weavers, one at each side ofthe web to receive and return the shuttle, and…
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