The art of weaving, by hand and by power, with an introductory account of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times . built upon three horizontal frames, one ofwhich is represented at A Fig. 3. The circular piece L is of solidwood with a mortise B in the centre, having a square axis passingthrough it, in each end of which axis is an iron pivot or lower pivot works in a socket and the upper in a round holeor bush, the axis being placed perpendicular to the horizon. Themill is turned about by a trundle F, from which motion is commu-nicated to it by a crossed band H, passing a
The art of weaving, by hand and by power, with an introductory account of its rise and progress in ancient and modern times . built upon three horizontal frames, one ofwhich is represented at A Fig. 3. The circular piece L is of solidwood with a mortise B in the centre, having a square axis passingthrough it, in each end of which axis is an iron pivot or lower pivot works in a socket and the upper in a round holeor bush, the axis being placed perpendicular to the horizon. Themill is turned about by a trundle F, from which motion is commu-nicated to it by a crossed band H, passing around its circumference,as near to the floor as convenient. The arms or radii (20 in num-ber) are dovetailed into grooves in the centre piece L, and their ex-tremities are mortised into the upright standards which form thecircumference of the mill, and which beiQg exactly 1]|- inches PLAIN WEAVING. 71 asunder, from centre to centre, divide that circumference into 20equal parts. The arms are numbered from 1 to 20, and appearvery plainly in Fig. 3 ; but the standards at their extremities ap-pear only as sections. Fiff. In Fig. 4 nine of the upright standards are quite visible, and arenumbered from 2 to 10. Near the circumference the arms areconnected and kept firm by round pieces of wood, as representedin Fig-. 3. E is the heck, as it is usually called. It consists of a number(120, or more,) of steel pins, with a round hole or eye in the upperend of each, through which a thread passes in the process of warp-ing. The pins are placed alternately in two frames, distinct fromeach other, and either of them may be raised at pleasure. Bythese means what is called the lease is formed, and it is most essen-tial in every stage of the operation of weaving, as the whole regu-larity of the yarn in the loom depends upon it. Fig. 5 is a frontelevation of a part of a heck, for the purpose of showing more dis-tinctly the way of lifting the alternate threads, when steel pins of th
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