The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the weaving of wide cloth faster and easier, stood at the threshold between the largely handcrafted world of the past and the ...

The needle loom is a lot like the flying shuttle loom that started the Industrial Revolution, except for making belts or ribbons. It’s certainly among the most complex 3D-printed machines that ...

Englishman James Kay invented the "flying shuttle" for looms in 1733. He escaped to Paris. James Hargreaves' "spinning jenny" was invented in 1770. Workers broke into his house and destroyed it.

Not to be outdone, just a few years later John Kay invented the flying shuttle loom (this was centuries ahead of the Wright Brothers). From this point forward, changes came more rapidly.

In 1733 Kay invented the wheel shuttle (Flying Shuttle) this meant that one person could operate a shuttle across a very wide loom, which greatly increased the rate of cloth production.

With almost evangelical zeal he says: éWhen I first stepped inside the shell of the building I could almost smell John Kayés Flying Shuttle loom, invented in 1733, which doubled a weaverés ...

The steady clack of the flying shuttle loom greets me at Buggaramulu Jella’s modest home in Koyyalagudem village in Telangana’s Nalgonda district. Jella, a slight, bespectacled man with a ...