The art of weaving, by hand and by power, with an introductory account of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times . c headles, in-stead of the weights, mails, twines, &c. composing the mounting 204 THE ART OF WEAVING. of the draw loom ; and, secondly, in constructing the cylinder andpattern cards or apron, so as to lift directly the said headles or wires,to form the sheed or shire;* or, in constructing a trunk and patternweb, both, to direct what shall be the sheed, by trapping or untrap-ping the hooks or knot cords to be drawn up, as m Jacquard anddraw looms. Mr. C. uses several ter
The art of weaving, by hand and by power, with an introductory account of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times . c headles, in-stead of the weights, mails, twines, &c. composing the mounting 204 THE ART OF WEAVING. of the draw loom ; and, secondly, in constructing the cylinder andpattern cards or apron, so as to lift directly the said headles or wires,to form the sheed or shire;* or, in constructing a trunk and patternweb, both, to direct what shall be the sheed, by trapping or untrap-ping the hooks or knot cords to be drawn up, as m Jacquard anddraw looms. Mr. C. uses several terms here which we do not recollect of hav-ing seen applied before to anything in the way of weaving; trunkfor cylinder, sheed or shire for shed, heylds for headles, foot hoardfor treadle, and apron or pattein web for pattern cards or chain ofcards, must be new to most weavers, and, perhaps, these terms formthe principal part of the invention. I (A. C.) make the heylds or perpendicular wires, for a Scotchimperial three-ply carpet, of No. 13 wire, the length of which heyldsis 24 inches. A head A (see Fig. 99) Fiff. t^nr^ B &^ R * For the meaning of the word shire, (in weaving,) see Plain Weaving,Section First, of this Work. JACaUARD MACHINE. 205 is made on each of the said wires; and 14 inches below this headthe wire is flattened, as at M M, where an eye is punched or boredin it, and these eyes are substituted for mails. The wires or heylds,work in two boards C and D (Fig. 99 :) the board C suspends orhangs them, by their heads A ; the board D serves as a guide todirect the point of each needle respectively throughout the series orrange of the web into the holes of the trunk B, on which the apronor pattern web works. I (A. C.) make the boards C and D oneinch thick, (each we suppose,) 5| inches broad, and 4 feet in length,or long enough to work on the slides E E, (Fig. 99.) I (A. C.)bore the holes in the said boards C and D large enough to admitwires about 2 numbers coarser th
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