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  2. Tatting - Wikipedia

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    Vintage tatting shuttles from the early twentieth century Newer type of shuttle with hook. Tatting with a shuttle is the earliest method of creating tatted lace. A tatting shuttle facilitates tatting by holding a length of wound thread and guiding it through loops to make the requisite knots. Historically, it was a metal or ivory pointed-oval ...

  3. Picot - Wikipedia

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    Bobbin lace border with picot edging, Study Collection, ST271, ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen To create a picot in tatting, the first half of a double stitch is made, but instead of pulling the half-stitch taut against the stitch before it, the half-stitch is pinched against the foundation thread and held some distance from the stitch before it.

  4. Vibrating shuttle - Wikipedia

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    Shuttle is rearward and beginning to move forward again. Needle moves slightly upward to form a small loop in the upper thread at the needle's eye. 4 Shuttle is midway, and its point ('hook') has passed through the loop in the upper thread. Upper thread is now looped around the shuttle's waist. Needle is up. 5

  5. Shuttle (weaving) - Wikipedia

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    A shuttle is a tool designed to neatly and compactly store a holder that carries the thread of the weft yarn while weaving with a loom. Shuttles are thrown or passed back and forth through the shed , between the yarn threads of the warp in order to weave in the weft.

  6. Flying shuttle - Wikipedia

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    Holding the reed beater bar in the left hand, and the (picking-stick-mounted) string tugged to return the flying shuttle in the right hand.See video below. In a typical frame loom, as used previous to the invention of the flying shuttle, the operator sat with the newly woven cloth before them, using treadles or some other mechanism to raise and lower the heddles, which opened the shed in the ...

  7. Bobbin driver - Wikipedia

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    Transverse shuttles carry the bobbin in a boat-shaped shuttle, and reciprocate the shuttle along a straight horizontal shaft. The design was popularized in Singer's 'New Family' machine. [2] The design became obsolete once the other bobbin driver designs were developed. [3] Shuttle from a transverse shuttle bobbin driver

  8. Template:Space Shuttle - Wikipedia

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    Place {{Space Shuttle}} at the end of an article, but above any categories.. This template's initial visibility currently defaults to autocollapse, meaning that if there is another collapsible item on the page (a navbox, sidebar, or table with the collapsible attribute), it is hidden apart from its title bar; if not, it is fully visible.

  9. Space Shuttle design process - Wikipedia

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    Original North American Rockwell Shuttle delta wing design, 1969: fully reusable, with a flyback crewed booster Maxime Faget's DC-3 concept employed conventional straight wings. During the early shuttle studies, there was a debate over the optimal shuttle design that best-balanced capability, development cost, and operational cost.