The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the ... called the shed, through which a shuttle carrying the weft thread is passed. The weft thread is then pressed in place ...

Weaving is one of the oldest crafts in the world, and was also among the first to be automated: the Industrial Revolution was in large part driven by developments in loom technology. [Roger de ...

These shuttle looms were used to make denim from the earliest days of Levi Strauss & Co. in the 1800s through the Rebel Without a Cause era, when cool cats like James Dean and Marlon Brando helped ...