Weaving. -- No. XIII: Draw Loom for Damask Weaving
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Installment XIII of Alfred Barlow's 'Weaving' series, as printed in Engineering, covers the draw-boy and the draw loom used for damask weaving. It explains how the draw-boy's work of lifting the simple cords was assisted by a fork and later by a draw-boy machine with a pecker, ratchet wheel, and knotted cords worked from the treadles. It also describes a French eighteenth-century draw loom for figured velvet damasks with 400 pulleys and a bobbin frame, and compares it to the Jacquard. The text refers to Figs. 120-126, with an engraved view of the draw loom and mechanical diagrams.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- November 13, 1874
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
- Archive notes
- Reduced to 85% to fit on printed page.
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