How To Do Beaming Turning-On With A Hand Loom

There was once a time when department stores and boutiques weren't in existance. Ladies created much of their own clothing at home.

Along with sewing, knitting and crochet, weaving was a popular past time.

This is a very rare set of instructions from 1936 for hand-loom weaving. It has been painstakingly remastered so it's easy to read and print.

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Turning on, or Beaming The raddle, or vateau Selection of a raddle for a particular warp The cane roller and cane sticks The raddle stand for small warps To separate the portees Distributing the portees in the raddle Turning on in the loom Position of the cane roller in the loom Means of turning the roller Assistance required in turning on Method of keeping the warp hard on the roller The Beaming Drum The essential part of beaming machinery The drum and its fittings Friction brakes Ropes of the drum Space necessary for beaming Importance of accuracy of detail in weaving operations Turning-on posts Appliance for beaming in confined space Winding the warp on the drum Beaming with the drum The Hand-Loom For Automatic Weaving Opening or shedding the warp for wefting Shedding the warp without appliances Simplicity of Egyptian and Greek weaving The headle-rod Ancient horizontal looms and automatic sheds Indian and Chinese looms The Old English hand-loom The loom frame The rollers The ratchet and wheel Friction brake for cane roller Comparison of indian and English looms Automatic method of opening the shed The long comb or reed The batten Position of the harness and batten Preparations for entering the warp in harness and reed Gating the loom The Accessory Appliances of the Loom The hand-shuttle Superiority of hand-shuttle weaving The fly-shuttle The batten for the fly-shuttle The raceboard The shuttle-boxes The pickers The picking stick The action of the fly-shuttle Advantages of the fly-shuttle The temple The skein reels The doubler The quill-winder other tools Method of weaving with hand-battens Method of weaving with box-battens