The art of weaving by hand and by power, with an account of its rise and progressBaldwin, 1845 - 538 pages |
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Page 25
... axis : this ratchet wheel is turned by four clicks , or drivers , attached to a lever , hav- ing an ascending and descending motion . This motion is regulated by a rest that rises from a rod , which is parallel with the roller , and ...
... axis : this ratchet wheel is turned by four clicks , or drivers , attached to a lever , hav- ing an ascending and descending motion . This motion is regulated by a rest that rises from a rod , which is parallel with the roller , and ...
Page 27
... axis , and these wheels are turned by drivers . 7th . And , may it please the King , Each time the pattern - board moves , the needles are raised and let fall again , so as to come on a different part of the pattern , by which means ...
... axis , and these wheels are turned by drivers . 7th . And , may it please the King , Each time the pattern - board moves , the needles are raised and let fall again , so as to come on a different part of the pattern , by which means ...
Page 70
... axis passing through it , in each end of which axis is an iron pivot or journal . The lower pivot works in a socket and the upper in a round hole or bush , the axis being placed perpendicular to the horizon . The mill is turned about by ...
... axis passing through it , in each end of which axis is an iron pivot or journal . The lower pivot works in a socket and the upper in a round hole or bush , the axis being placed perpendicular to the horizon . The mill is turned about by ...
Page 72
... axis of the mill . When the mill is turned one way , the cord winds around the axis and raises the frame D ; when turned the contrary way , the cord unwinds and the frame is lowered . Four small rollers are generally placed in the ...
... axis of the mill . When the mill is turned one way , the cord winds around the axis and raises the frame D ; when turned the contrary way , the cord unwinds and the frame is lowered . Four small rollers are generally placed in the ...
Page 134
... axis by the cord i . By this means the whip is slackened , and a greater or smaller range is given to it , to suit any given pattern , merely by shifting the fulcrum or centre of motion farther from , or nearer to the end o , of the ...
... axis by the cord i . By this means the whip is slackened , and a greater or smaller range is given to it , to suit any given pattern , merely by shifting the fulcrum or centre of motion farther from , or nearer to the end o , of the ...
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arrangement attached axis barrel bead lams bobbins breadth breast beam cards carpet carriage Cashmere catch centre cloth roller colours comb connected crank cross cylinder damask dents design paper double cloth draw loom embroidery fabric fastened figure fixed frame front gauze groove harness board holes horizontal improvements inch invention Jacquard Jacquard loom knot lace lash leaf tweel leaves of headles length lever long march machine machinery manufacture means motion mounting needles operation pantograph party-coloured passes patent pattern piece pincers placed plain plain weaving plate power loom produced pulley raised ratchet wheel reed round screw selvage shaft shawls shed shown in Fig shuttle side silk slides Spitalfields spring stripes stud-pin suitable tail cord tappet teeth texture thread breaks tion treadles turned twine upper warp threads weaver weaving weft thread weight wire woven yarn beam
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Page 58 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age : and he made him a coat of many colours.
Page 42 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, And cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 45 - The King's daughter is all glorious within ; her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework : the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Page 43 - Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work of the engraver. And of the cunning workman and of the embroiderer, in blue and in purple, in scarlet and in fine linen and of the weaver, even of them that do any work and of those that devise cunning work.
Page 47 - So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
Page 48 - O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature ; on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. Agr. O ! rare for Antony. Eno. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 14 - Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Page 48 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 42 - Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
Page 48 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...