Brief introduction of shuttle weaving

Shuttle weaving is a fabric made up of two or more groups of mutually perpendicular yarns interwoven at 90 degrees. The longitudinal yarn is called warp yarn, and the transverse yarn is called weft yarn.

Shuttle weaving is different from knitting. It uses a shuttle to drive the weft yarn to pass through the warp yarn opening that opens and closes up and down, and one yarn forms a cross structure.

English: woven.

Later, the weaving method was first used by machinery, and weaving also represented this weaving method. After the emergence of knitting mechanization, knitting and shuttle weaving continue to be used to distinguish it from knitting.

Shuttle-less looms appeared in the 1950s. Shuttle-less loom separates the weft package from the shuttle, or only carries a small amount of weft, and replaces the big and heavy shuttle with a small and light weft insertion device. Shuttle looms have high speed, low noise and good fabric quality, which can greatly improve labor productivity and gradually replace shuttle looms. Contemporary shuttleless looms, including rapier looms, air-jet looms, water-jet looms and projectile looms, are high-tech products integrating electronic technology, computer technology, precision machinery technology and textile technology. In the minority areas of China, shuttle looms are still used to weave homespun. However, weaving and knitting are still used to distinguish two branches of textile industry: processing, equipment and clothing.