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 ...

fully automatic loom. After a long career in the textiles industry he’s quite the expert when it comes to weaving, and as you’ll see he’s also an expert machine builder. A clamp hold the end ...

H. Northrop of Hopedale, USA. The Northrop Automatic Loom was a truly revolutionary machine. It used a rotating magazine to keep the shuttle constantly supplied with cotton thread and could be run ...