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Tapestry (1878)

Champeaux, Alfred de, 1833-1903, Sketchley, Richard Foster, Mrs · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall · leaf 20

An illustration from Tapestry, 1878, leaf 20
rolled on the second, in the same way as in high-warp weaving.The coats are supported above the warp by a bar resting on two-cross beams, which serve to unite the four upright posts. Thesecoats are fastened beneath the warp to two treadles, which areused to raise alternately each leaf of the warp… … LOW-WARP LOOM, EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTORIES AT AUBUSSON. 8 TAPESTRY. requires, and passes between the two leaves of the warp thebroach, or flute, mounted with wool. He regulates the courses bymeans of an instrument called a reed, and presses them down witha comb of wood or ivory. In low-warp…

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