Weaving machine

1752: Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern data computation. Jacquard came from a family of silk weavers and went through a bankruptcy and the French Revolution before starting work on an automated, […]

Since moving to California five years ago, the Los Angeles textile artist Rachel Duvall has been refining an almost scientific approach to handweaving.

Today we visited the Rubelli weaving mill in Como. The modern mill was awesome beyond words. This picture shows one aisle of huge looms weaving fast and loud. The cords going up to the ceiling are …

Tabletop Weaving: very very easily tabletop weaving you can weave untill width 30cm can be weave long!(12.12 upload!!)

The bag making starts with the weaving of hundred percent jute or Hybrid of Jute Cotton fabrics. In jute fabric, jute threads are used both in horizontal and vertical stitching, in jute cotton, jute is used in horizontal fashion (in shuttles of loom) to hide the roughness, and to give a detailed finish through cotton thread overlaying, jute cotton fabric is in more demand because cotton can be easily dyed in numerous color options and fine smooth texture feel.

Three ways of using a double slotted heddle. A backstrap. I am weaving 13 thread heart patterns for bookmarks. I use a double slotted heddle (the Sunna heddle) and back strap to weave patterned bands. This is a very portable set of equipment and easy to set up. The picture shows the Gehpa curved shuttle which is excellent for making pick ups. The far end of the warp is looped around a G-clamp which I usually attach to a window ledge. The band lock is a lovely invention which enables the band…

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Power loom invented by Edmund Cartwright. Image from Textile Mercury, a Manchester paper published by Marsden, in 1892.

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