Mechanical Loom

Mechanical Loom

A Jacquard Loom The Jacquard loom was invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in Lyon in 1801 to weave textiles, mainly silk. It stored weaving programmes in a series of punched cards. Usually, about 4,000 cards were used for each design, though a portrait of Jacquard [see below] needed 24,000 cards. I have seen one of these portraits [in the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris] and the quality is remarkable. Automatic looms were already in use but could only produce simple designs. Complex…

a weaver working a mechanical loom in Home mill at the end of 19th century

Our Jacquard Loom. The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, which simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with complex patterns such as brocade, damask and matelasse. The loom is controlled by punched cards with punched holes, each row of which corresponds to one row of the design. Multiple rows of holes are punched on each card and the many cards that compose the design of the textile are strung together in order. #MadeInNepal…

WEAVING MACHINE INSTRUCTIONS This is the instruction manual to maintain weaving machines. My father-in-law went in Winterthur, Switzerland to take a course for various mechanical adjustments on the weaving machines Sulzer. He was working at the Bruck Silk Mills (whose founder is Isaac Bruck), here in Cowansville. In 2010, the company have closed in Cowansville. The course manual is in french only. My father in law took the course December 12, 1980 (for a week or so). See pictures for more…

A Jacquard Loom, invented 1801, considered a precursor to the modern computer. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom

A power loom is a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. The first power loom was designed in 1784 by Edmund Cartwright and first built in 1785. Edmund Cartwright was an English inventor born on April 24 1743 in and died on October 30 1823. In 1792, Dr Cartwright obtained his last patent for weaving machinery; this provided his loom with multiple shuttle boxes for weaving checks and cross stripes.

Edmund Cartwright was born in April 24, 1743, in Marnham, Nottinghamshire, England, and died the 30th of October, 1823, in Hastings, Sussex. He was the inventor of the first wool-combing machine, and of the predecessor of the modern power loom. The power loom is a mechanized loom, an instrument used for weaving cloth.

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