History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . eaving. Weaving is the interlacingof two sets of strands or yarns at right anglesto each other. The foundation threads areof equal lengths and are called the interlacing threads are called the fillingor weft. In order to measure the yarn intoskeins, the home weaver wound the yarnfrom the bobbins of the spinning wheel ontobobbins used in the loom. The processseems long to us today. It was as follows: web or cloth beam. The yarn was stretchedbetween the beams and held taut by meansof weights attached to
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . eaving. Weaving is the interlacingof two sets of strands or yarns at right anglesto each other. The foundation threads areof equal lengths and are called the interlacing threads are called the fillingor weft. In order to measure the yarn intoskeins, the home weaver wound the yarnfrom the bobbins of the spinning wheel ontobobbins used in the loom. The processseems long to us today. It was as follows: web or cloth beam. The yarn was stretchedbetween the beams and held taut by meansof weights attached to the beams. Theprincipal motions in weaving are shedding,or raising the warp threads to allow the pass-age of the interlacing shuttle; picking, orthrowing the shuttle through the warp; andbattening, or forcing the filling into a com-pact mass. The shedding in the colonial plain loomwas accomplished by an appliance called aharness. The harness was made of tw^osticks the width of the loom and cut in alter-nate grooves and eyes. These sticks werecalled heddles or healds and the warp. In Days Gone By—The Old-Fashioned Loom and Spinning Wheel (Courtesy rf Draper Company) First the yarn was wound onto a clock reelthat ticked when it was set for a definitelength of skein. The skein was thenstretched on a swift, and the yarn woundonce more onto bobbins for the loom. Asthe weaver filled her bobbins she placedthem in a bobbin frame called a creel, andstood the frame in front of the warping barsready to wind them off in lengths for theloom. The colonial loom was horizontal andsometimes called the Zuni type. Theframe held two beams at opposite ends ofthe loom. On one, called the warp beam,the warp threads were wound. The otherheld the finished fabric and was called the thread was passed across them in threadingthe loom. A treadle was attached to theheddles, and worked by foot pow^er under-neath the loom. This left the hands free,and the foot depressed the alternate warpthreads widening t
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