A loom is a device used to weave cloth. The basic purpose of any loom is to hold the warp threads under tension to facilitate the interweaving of the weft threads. The precise shape of the loom and its mechanics may vary, but the basic function is the same.
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... The Lancashire Loom was a semi-automatic power loom invented by James Bullough and William Kenworthy in 1842 ...
... The principal advantage of the Lancashire loom was that it was semi-automatic, when a warp thread broke the weaver was notified ... An operative thus could work 4 or more looms whereas previously they could only work a single loom ... Indeed the term A Four Loom Weaver was used to describe the operatives ...
... the very first operational trial of the Draper Northrop automatic loom was made at the Seaconnet Mills ... Further trials and improvements to the Northrop loom were made over the next year or so ... In the following decades, the Northrop automatic loom would revolutionize the weaving industry, allowing a single operator to manage multiple looms at the same time ...
... From 1830 there had been a series of incremental improvements to the basic Roberts Loom ... Richard Roberts 1830, Roberts Loom ... William Dickinson of Blackburn Blackburn Loom the modern overpick loom There now appear a series of useful improvements that are contained in patents for useless devices Hornby, Kenworthy ...
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Famous quotes containing the word loom:
“... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
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—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
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