. Tops, a new American industry; a study in the development of the American worsted manufacture. The Arlington Mills ... and weaving of thepicture, and will give some idea of the magnitudeof the work involved. A photograph of an engraving, made from theoriginal painting, was first taken, and from that pho-tograph the weaving design was made on an enlargedscale upon cross-section paper, each square of whichis intended to represent the position of a thread inthe warp and filling in the cloth. This design sheetwas 6 feet 5 inches wide and 8 feet 9 inches high,and was a picture in itself, the figu
. Tops, a new American industry; a study in the development of the American worsted manufacture. The Arlington Mills ... and weaving of thepicture, and will give some idea of the magnitudeof the work involved. A photograph of an engraving, made from theoriginal painting, was first taken, and from that pho-tograph the weaving design was made on an enlargedscale upon cross-section paper, each square of whichis intended to represent the position of a thread inthe warp and filling in the cloth. This design sheetwas 6 feet 5 inches wide and 8 feet 9 inches high,and was a picture in itself, the figures being largerthan life size. The loom used was an ordinary power loom withthe Jacquard attachment. The Jacquard machinewas the invention of a native of Lyons, France,Joseph Marie Jacquard, whose name it bears. Hisattention was first directed to the subject of me-chanical invention by seeing in a newspaper the offerof a reward for a machine for making nets. He pro-duced the machine, but did not claim the circumstances becoming known to some personsin authority in Paris, Jacquard was sent for, intro-122. COLVMBVS SIGHTING AMERICA DESIGNED AND WOVEN AT THE ARLINGTON MILLS LAWRENCE MASSACHVSETTS ducecl to Napoleon, and was employed in correcting columbusthe defects of a loom belonging to the state. Jac- Americaquard stated that he could produce the effects in-tended to be produced on this loom by far simplermeans, and as a result he made, in 1801, the ma-chine bearing his name. He returned to Lyons witha pension of one thousand crowns, but his inventionwas regarded with so much distrust and jealousy bythe weavers. that they attempted to suppress it byviolent means. The object of the Jacquard loom is to facilitatethe production of elaborate designs upon textile fab-rics. The Jacquard engine, as it is called, isplaced above the loom, and its object is to so separatethe threads of the warp that the shuttle, in passingbetween them with the filling, will produce the
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