. The velvet and corduroy industry; a brief account of the various processes connected with the manufacture of cotton pile goods. e separatethreads has to be far more divided, and mechanismof a more or less elaborate type is required, accordingto the design or pattern selected, this being done onthe loom termed a Jacquard after the Frenchmanwho invented it. In illustration No. 3 all the details in a modern weavingshed are shown. The photograph also gives a good ideaof the disposition and arrangements in a good classmodem weaving shed. As will be seen from the loomsin the foreground, all the op
. The velvet and corduroy industry; a brief account of the various processes connected with the manufacture of cotton pile goods. e separatethreads has to be far more divided, and mechanismof a more or less elaborate type is required, accordingto the design or pattern selected, this being done onthe loom termed a Jacquard after the Frenchmanwho invented it. In illustration No. 3 all the details in a modern weavingshed are shown. The photograph also gives a good ideaof the disposition and arrangements in a good classmodem weaving shed. As will be seen from the loomsin the foreground, all the operations in the cycle of weav-ing velvets given in detail in the following pages canbe followed. The girl is seen starting the loom withher hand on the starting handle. At the loom on theother side are the healds, the functions of which aredescribed in detail on page 27. This is the first operationof the cycle. On the near side is the shuttle ready to putin the pick of pile weft—^the second operation of the cycle;and finally the lathe, ready for beating up the pileagainst the reed or dent which can be seen in the looms, 1. fe Q O> > 30 VELVET AND CORDUROY INDUSTRY whilst the loom on the right hand shows at its side thegears to work the tappets. The woven piece of velvetis shown rolled up beneath the loom, and in the back-ground is the back beam upon which the warp is wound,as detailed on p. 26. Illustration No. 4 gives a good idea of the Jacquardprinciple as applied to a velvet loom for the weaving offigured velvets. At the back of the loom is seen agreat array of cards which form the pattern ; in thiscase 2,400 cards take their ordained share in producingthe figure on the velvet, and each card manipulatesseparately 3,000 warp ends, playing upon 400 is probably nothing more impressive to thelayman in the processes of velvet weaving than theordered complexity of these movements. One mayborrow from Kiplings masterly description of the marineengine at work, a
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