Encyclopedia: Weaving Plates, Part VII - Plain/Uni
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A set of eleven engraved plates from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie, devoted to silk weaving (soierie) of plain fabrics such as taffeta, satin and serge. The plates show warping frames (ourdissoir), cantres, the operations of preparing and beaming the warp, the plain-fabric loom and the ribbon loom with its reed rack, and loom parts such as the carette and heddle carrier. The final plates give diagrams of taffeta, ribbon and satin weaves (5, 8 and 9 shafts) with warp and weft interlacings and harness and draw-cord arrangements. Text is limited to French plate captions and figure numbers.
- Type
- Illustration
- Date
- 1763
- Language
- French
- Pages
- 11
- Weaving drafts
- on 3 pages: 9, 10, 11
- Archive notes
- Contributed by Philippe Demoule
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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