Tension on the warp was maintained by brakes, one pulled tight around the upper roller beam (). Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of
Tension on the warp was maintained by brakes, one pulled tight around the upper roller beam (). Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'encyclopedie, ou Dictionnarie Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of Denis Diderot". (Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dover Publications, New York, 1959).
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