The Loom and Spindle: Past, Present, and Future
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Reprint of Luther Hooper's three Canton Lectures on the history and mechanics of the spindle and the loom, given to the Royal Society of Arts in 1912 and reprinted in the Smithsonian Annual Report for 1914. It covers prehistoric, ancient and primitive looms and spindles (Swiss lake dwellers, Greek, Egyptian, African, Indian, Chinese), the development of spinning wheels and spinning machinery, and the loom's shedding motions, heddles and treadles. The later lectures treat the draw loom, the drawboy, the Jacquard machine, the fly shuttle and power looms. It has 11 plates and many line drawings, with a few simple drawdown and tie-up diagrams.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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