Looms and Weaving

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Anna Benson and Neil Warburton are weavers and textile historians, with an extensive collection of antique hand and power looms. Anna has a textile degree and was formerly curator of Helmshore Textile Museum and Queen Street Mill, Burnley, which preserved the last steam-powered weaving mill in Britain. Neil has a history degree and studied weaving at Huddersfield Polytechnic. Together they run their own weaving business, producing reproduction fabrics of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
Looms ancC Weaving
This book describes the development of the loom from a crude wooden frame to a sophisticated electronic weaving machine. It introduces common textile terms and techniques and there is a description of primitive looms, such as Greek Tapestry and Navaho blanket weaving. Medieval craft guilds, the domestic system and Yeoman Weavers are dealt with, while handloom weaving is contrasted with the powerloom and the mill system. The authors examine the decorative fabrics... Tovább

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Anna Benson and Neil Warburton are weavers and textile historians, with an extensive collection of antique hand and power looms. Anna has a textile degree and was formerly curator of Helmshore Textile Museum and Queen Street Mill, Burnley, which preserved the last steam-powered weaving mill in Britain. Neil has a history degree and studied weaving at Huddersfield Polytechnic. Together they run their own weaving business, producing reproduction fabrics of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
Looms ancC Weaving
This book describes the development of the loom from a crude wooden frame to a sophisticated electronic weaving machine. It introduces common textile terms and techniques and there is a description of primitive looms, such as Greek Tapestry and Navaho blanket weaving. Medieval craft guilds, the domestic system and Yeoman Weavers are dealt with, while handloom weaving is contrasted with the powerloom and the mill system. The authors examine the decorative fabrics such as brocades produced on early Chinese drawlooms and the introduction of Jacquard and dobby weaving in the nineteenth century. The reaction against industrialisation and William Morris's inauguration of the Arts and Crafts movement are discussed in relation to the craft revival of the twentieth century. This book continues the history of looms and weaving beyond the invention of the Northrop automatic to include special woven eflfects and twentieth-century technological development, including today's computer-based weaving machines.
-}- There are over six million handlooms in commercial production throughout the world and nearly all may be described as primitive because they usually consist of a simple wooden frame, although the most exquisite cloth can be woven on them.
-5- With the mechanisation of spinning, handloom weaving was at a premium, commanding high wages. This golden age of the handloom weaver ended with an influx of unskilled labour, lower-
1. ing quality and accelerating powerloom development. Vissza