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 and especially designed to forward the extension of machinery to all kinds of plain weaving (1846)
ON WEAVING BY HAND. #7 operation on the right hand side, by taking the first heddle on the back leaf, into the eye of which he … Fig. 9. Section of Plan of the Old Hand Loom, taken im- mediately above the Heddles. puts the hook, when an assistant immediately places in its bight the first thread of the selvage, which the weaver pulls through, and then another heddle, the first on the fore leaf, is taken in like manner, and so…
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