Scientific amusements . ith it. Two pencils, a visiting-card or playing-card, somethread, a good knife, and, if you please, a wooden paper-knife,—that is the whole of the material for our ap-paratus. Our loom consists of two pencils, which servefor beams ; a comb (or heddles) cut out of the cardby the penknife into a kind of grating, on which longitu-dinal openings alternate, with small circular holes. Theapparatus is completed by two shuttles cut from the samecardboard, on which are wound the cotton for the weftwhich is destined to pass across the warp-threads. 126 MKCHANICAL TOYS, ETC. Place
Scientific amusements . ith it. Two pencils, a visiting-card or playing-card, somethread, a good knife, and, if you please, a wooden paper-knife,—that is the whole of the material for our ap-paratus. Our loom consists of two pencils, which servefor beams ; a comb (or heddles) cut out of the cardby the penknife into a kind of grating, on which longitu-dinal openings alternate, with small circular holes. Theapparatus is completed by two shuttles cut from the samecardboard, on which are wound the cotton for the weftwhich is destined to pass across the warp-threads. 126 MKCHANICAL TOYS, ETC. Place the pencils at the edge of a table, and, supportedby some books, as shown in the illustration herewith(Fig. lOo). Then you may commence by attaching toone of the pencils one end of the thread of the warp,and by means of a needle pass it through the first slitin the comb, then turn it around the second pencil,returning below it and passing it through the first circularhole in the comb. Then around the first pencil and. Fig. 99.—Shuttles and Comb cut from Card ; above is a Specimen of the Material woven. through the second longitudinal opening, and so on, untiltke last hole in the comb is reached, as represented in theillustration (Fig. 100). Now, to proceed to our weaving, we have only to raiseand lower the comb alternately ; and we shall perceivethat the only threads engaged will be those which are drawnthrough the holes. It now remains for us to pass, be-tween each movement, the shuttle full of the thread ofthe weft between the two lines of the warp threads placed MECHANICAL TOYS, 127 at different elevations. We may use the paper-cutter as a batten to drive home the shot. This little apparatuswill enable you to comprehend the mechanism of the?loom, and may be regarded as at once a medium ofamusement and of information. With patience we mayweave some material by its aid.
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