Loom
A loom is a machine for weaving thread or yarn into textiles. Looms can range from very small hand-held frames, to large free-standing hand looms, to huge automatic mechanical devices.
The invention of the power loom by Edmund Cartwright was very important in the Industrial Revolution.
Model of Navajo Loom, late 19th century, Brooklyn Museum.jpg
An early nineteenth century Japanese loom with several heddles, which the weaver controls with her foot
A Jakaltek Maya brocades a hair sash on a back strap loom.
Hand loom at Hjerl Hede, Denmark, showing grayish warp threads (back) and cloth woven with red filling yarn (front)
Oaxacan artisan Alberto Sanchez Martinez at loom
Hand loom at the Korkosz Croft in Czarna Góra, Poland, 19th century
A loom in an Old Believer homestead in Slutiški, Latvia
Handloom from India
Weaver from India showing handloom during an exhibition
Loom Media
A treadle-driven Hattersley & Sons Domestic *Loom, built under licence in 1893, in Keighley, Yorkshire. This loom has a flying shuttle and automatically rolls up the woven cloth; it is not just controlled but powered by the pedals.
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
Passing the shuttle through the shed
Pin weaving, not using any shedding devices. Note ordinary white plastic hair comb (beneath a red yarn, behind the box), presumably used to beat the warp against the fell.
Heddle-rod, laid across the warp threads, and tied to every other thread with short lengths of string. Tapestry loom, France, 2018
Métier vertical à pesons 2
Diagram of Tablet weaving
Jacquard ribbon loom, showing distinctive sliding ribbon shuttles.
Weft insertion at 15 seconds
Two Lancashire looms in the Queen Street Mill weaving shed, Burnley
A 1939 loom working at the Mueller Cloth Mill museum in Euskirchen, Germany.
Handloom with a flying shuttle. The shuttle runs in a shuttle race attached to the front of the beater bar. Subtitles describe step-by-step.
An early fully-automated loom. The arms at the sides can be seen swinging to bash the flying shuttle back and forth.
The automated shuttle moves almost too fast to see
A power loom in the TextielMuseum Tilburg weaving a tapestry for the Niewe Kerk Middelburg; note that the threads do not vary in colour along their length.
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