Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . achedsuch a degree of perfection and efficiency in this country that almost the entireindustry was centred here. This fabric was made from the hair of horsestails as weft, and a strong cotton warp; and as the weft could not be woundupon bobbins, as usual, each separate hair was inserted by an ing
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . achedsuch a degree of perfection and efficiency in this country that almost the entireindustry was centred here. This fabric was made from the hair of horsestails as weft, and a strong cotton warp; and as the weft could not be woundupon bobbins, as usual, each separate hair was inserted by an ingeniousdevice made to reciprocate through the shed, and select one out of a bundle THE CENTURYS TEXTILE PROGRESS 141 of hairs cut to the same length. The conception of a power device capableof the delicate operation necessary to weave hair-cloth, could never havebeen realized except in a highly intelligent manufacturing community ; butin 1870, Rhode Island alone produced on such machines over 600,000 yards,consuming thereby the hair of about eight hundred thousand horse-tails. The evolution of the lappet loom started between 1840 and L850in Englandand Germany. It sought to enhance the pleasing effect of plain fabrics, byplacing an embroidered or raised figure over the surface during the weaving. CIRCULAR I,OOM. process. Near the lower edge of ladies skirts, on the ends of neckties andlike articles, an embroidered effect was desirable; and this has been securedby the lappet attachment to the present power-loom. In this a needle ismounted in appropriate location, usually back of the lay, and through an eyein the end thereof, the lappet thread is led from a suitable supply. Thisneedle is normally either above or below the warp. When a spot or figure iswanted, it is caused to move into the plane of the opposite warps of the shed,under the direction of suitable controlling pattern mechanisms. The shuttlebeing then shot, the lappet thread appears upon the surface, and it may bemade to
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