Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly . Figure No. 10. In placing the needle in position in thereed, care should be taken to put the short-sloped end upward, and the long-sloped <e^ FIG. 6.—HOOK FOR THREADING THE REED. for working with castor-wool. Thenumber of threads to be used is deter-mined by the width of the strip to bewoven. For instance, a strip measur-ing six inches in width will requireabout sixty-three threads of castor-wool. The threads are passed between twosteady supports ; such as, chair-backs,door-knobs, and the like, in such amanner that they will be arrangedalongside each oth
Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly . Figure No. 10. In placing the needle in position in thereed, care should be taken to put the short-sloped end upward, and the long-sloped <e^ FIG. 6.—HOOK FOR THREADING THE REED. for working with castor-wool. Thenumber of threads to be used is deter-mined by the width of the strip to bewoven. For instance, a strip measur-ing six inches in width will requireabout sixty-three threads of castor-wool. The threads are passed between twosteady supports ; such as, chair-backs,door-knobs, and the like, in such amanner that they will be arrangedalongside each other. After cutting FIG. 7.—SOCKET OF THE REED. open one end of the skein thus formed, thethreads are successively drawn into the reedplaced for this purpose upon the beam ;the screw-heads of which are provided withthe necessary apertures (see Figures and 5). In order to form the two layers of threadswhose crossing back and forth weaves theweft into cloth, the threads are alternatelypassed between the needles and through the. 8.—LIFTING THE REED AND PASSING THE SHUTTLE THROUGH,COMMENCE WORK. eyes of the needles, by means of the littlehook, shown at Figure No. 6, in the mannerillustrated at Figure No. 3. After drawing the threads through thereed, and arranging them uniformly along-side of each other, they are tied together FIG. 4.—THE weavers SHUTTLE. end downward. When the needles are inposition the reed is closed with the smalllathe or batten, which is kept in place bymeans of three thumb-screws, arranged onthe upper side. The process called warpingmust always precede that ofweaving. For this purpose thethreads are measured accordingto the intended length of the stripto be woven : the allowance of c 3
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