Weaving. -- No. XXIV: The Ribbon Loom
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An 1875 installment (No. XXIV) of the Engineering series on weaving, dealing with the ribbon loom, also called the Dutch engine loom or swivel loom. It traces the loom's history from 16th and 17th century Dantzic and Leyden, through the bans and riots it provoked across Europe, to the Kay and Stell patents of 1745 and 1760 and the later bar loom and rack-and-wheel shuttle motion. It also describes how the swivel loom works: warp reels, weights, heddles and treadles, and the swivel shuttles driven by a peg driver or by rack and star wheels. The pages carry engraved figures (Figs. 248-256) of hand ribbon looms and their mechanisms.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- June 4, 1875
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Archive notes
- Formerly missing page added September 28, 2003
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