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Textiles and clothing (1919)

McGowan, Ellen Amelia (Beers), 1873-, Waite, Charlotte, A. (Charlotte Augusta), b. 1873 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 56

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41 SPINNING AND WEAVING used for weaving pattern goods. It was invented by a Frenchman, Joseph Marie Jacquard of Lyons, France, in response to a demand for a method of weaving more elab- orate designs in silk and linen materials. The invention … ©Brown Bros: N. Y. FIG. 26. — MODERN WEAVING ROOM. consisted in a new method of shedding, operated from above the harness. In the old looms the harness was operated by the treadles. In the Jacquard loom the warp threads are operated separately instead of in groups, so that a very large number of…

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