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Dove and Rose jacquard-woven silk and wool double cloth furnishing textile, designed by William Morris in 1879. [1]Double cloth or double weave (also doublecloth, double-cloth, doubleweave) is a kind of woven textile in which two or more sets of warps and one or more sets of weft or filling yarns are interconnected to form a two-layered cloth. [2]
Weaving a tapestry on a vertical loom in Konya, Turkey A Turkish carpet loom showing warp threads wrapped around the warp beam, above, and the fell being wrapped onto the cloth beam below. A simple handheld frame loom. Weaving is done on two sets of threads or yarns, which cross one another.
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The development of the rapier loom began in 1844, when John Smith of Salford was granted a patent on a loom design that eliminated the shuttle typical of earlier models of looms. [3] Subsequent patents were taken out by Phillippe and Maurice in 1855, W.S. Laycock in 1869, and W. Glover in 1874, with rigid rapiers being perfected by O ...
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[3] [4] These swivel shuttles are responsible for forming the designs, while the regular shuttle creates the base structure. [5] Swivel weaving is characterized by minimal waste. [6] Typically, contrasting colors were utilized for the designs. [4] The Dotted Swiss is an example of a swivel weave, where dots may be formed on a sheer fabric. [7] [8]