Shuttle
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A short encyclopedia entry defining the weaver's shuttle as the instrument that carries the weft thread back and forth through the warp on a loom. It describes the eye or chamber that holds the pirn (quill) wound on a tube of paper or rush. It also describes the ribbon-weaver's shuttle, made of box wood, iron-shod and pointed at both ends.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1819
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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