Cotton weaving: its development, principles, and practice . Fig. 7.—French Loom, side view ; about 1740. be useful, therefore, to summarize the progress made,which can probably best be done by portraying the loomas it existed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,and at the early part of the eighteenth, previous to EARLY WEAVING : DEVELOPMENT OF HAND-LOOM. 39 the invention of Kays important improvements. Ourillustrations are drawn from various sources. The first,fig. 6, is a simple loom, and the figure is taken fromSchopfers Panoplia, published at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1568. It needs n
Cotton weaving: its development, principles, and practice . Fig. 7.—French Loom, side view ; about 1740. be useful, therefore, to summarize the progress made,which can probably best be done by portraying the loomas it existed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,and at the early part of the eighteenth, previous to EARLY WEAVING : DEVELOPMENT OF HAND-LOOM. 39 the invention of Kays important improvements. Ourillustrations are drawn from various sources. The first,fig. 6, is a simple loom, and the figure is taken fromSchopfers Panoplia, published at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1568. It needs no detailed description. Thenext two illustrations, figs. 7 and 8, represent a moreadvanced loom. They are taken from the French workjust mentioned. They represent a side and front view. Fig. 8.—French Loom ; front view. of a wide loom, which requires two weavers to work frame consists of inclined posts, 9, and cross-pieces, batten, or lathe, depends from the top cross-bars,where it is carried upon a serrated bearing, by which itcan be adjusted within a given range forward or backward,according to the requirements of the weaver, or of thefabric on which he is engaged. The lathe, it will beobserved, is composed of its two uprights, 11, carrying its 40 COTTON WEAVING. two blocks, 12, 13, for the reception of the reed, the lowerone not being furnished with the projection now calledthe shuttle-race, whilst the top one forms the cap, as inthe power-loom of to-day. By means of the cross-piece,14, the height of the lathe can be adjusted as two leaves of heddles, 18, are suspended on cords,which pass over small pulleys depending from a piece ofwood called the gallows, 15. The breast-beam, 16, is alarge block of wood with an aperture in it, through
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