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Definition: loom 1 from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

(15c) : a frame or machine for interlacing at right angles two or more sets of threads or yarns to form a cloth


loom

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
frame or machine used for weaving ; there is evidence that the loom has been in use since 4400 B.C. Modern looms are of two types, those with a shuttle (the part that carries the weft through the shed) and those without; the latter draw the weft from a stationary supply. There are basically three kinds of shuttleless looms. The dummy shuttle, the most widely used, contains no weft but moves through the shed depositing a trail of yarn. A second type, the newest of looms, makes use of jets of air or water to force the weft through the shed. A third kind, called the rapier type and widely used in carpet weaving, uses steel rods to move the weft into the shed. The fundamental parts of all looms are the warp beam, a cylinder on which the warp threads are wound; heddles (rods or cords), each with an eye through which is drawn a warp thread; the harness, a rectangular frame set with a series of heddles operated to form a shed between the warp threads for the insertion of the weft threads; the…
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Full text Article loom

From Philip's Encyclopedia
Frame or set of frames on which threads are woven into cloth. The loom enables a set of threads, called the weft, to be passed over and under a set of lengthwise threads, called the warp. The simplest kind of loom is a single frame on which weaving is done by hand. …
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Full text Article loom

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
frame or machine used for weaving ; there is evidence that the loom has been in use since 4400 B.C. Modern looms are of two types, those with a shuttle (the part that carries the weft through the shed) and those without; the latter draw the weft from a stationary supply. There are basically three…
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Full text Article loom

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Any machine for weaving yarn or thread into cloth. The first looms are thought to have been used to weave sheep's wool in about 5000 BC . A loom is a frame on which a set of lengthwise threads (warp) is strung. A second set of threads (weft), traditionally carried in a shuttle, is inserted at right…
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Full text Article loom

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Principal parts of a traditional hand loom....
Machine for weaving cloth. The earliest looms, from the 5th millennium bc , consisted of bars or beams forming a frame to hold a number of parallel threads in two alternating sets. By raising one set of these threads (which together formed the warp), it was possible to run a cross thread (a weft, or…
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Full text Article Jacquard loom

From Dictionary of Eponyms
The Jacquard loom was a loom for weaving patterned fabrics. It is named after the French weaver and inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard ( 1752-1834 ), who completed its design in 1801. When first introduced in France, it was very unpopular, because it was so efficient that it made thousands of people…
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Full text Article Jacquard loom

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Loom incorporating a special device to control individual warp yarn s. It enabled production of fabrics with intricate woven patterns such as tapestry , brocade , and damask, and has also been adapted to the production of patterned knitted fabrics. Developed in France by J.-M. Jacquard in 1804–05, …
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Full text Article Lloyd Loom (f. 1919)

From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900
Was an American furniture-manufacturing company that used imitation cane work invented by an American, Marshall B. Lloyd. It was made of twisted paper, woven on mechanized looms and later strengthened by the addition of steel wire in the warp. The fabric was attached to a steam-bent wooden frame…
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Full text Article NATURE, LOOM OF

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
English physicist and mathematician Nothing is gained by saying that the loom of nature works like our muscles if we cannot explain how our muscles work. Physics and Philosophy Chapter I (p. 15 ) Dover Publications. New York New York USA . 1981. English physicist …the loom of Nature is weaving a…
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Full text Article looming

From The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology
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Full text Article hand-loom weavers

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Textile workers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who used manually operated machines often as ‘out-workers’. They were in great demand and relatively highly paid until the advent of mechanised methods of weaving made hand-weaving expensive and slow. There were as many as 200,000 in the late…
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