How does a loom weave cloth?

Abstract: Looms have a long history. During the Qin and Han dynasties, it was widely used in the Yellow River basin and the Yangtze River basin. Looms can be divided into shuttle looms and shuttleless looms, among which shuttle looms are more convenient and advanced, and more people choose them. When weaving, the loom steps on the wooden board, which pulls the heald and separates the warp yarns alternately up and down, thus turning the thread into a piece of cloth. Next, this paper will briefly introduce the types of looms and how they are woven. Let's have a look! 1. What kinds of looms are there?

Textile machines not only appear in factories, but also in some family workshops. So what are their general types and how are they classified?

Looms are generally divided into shuttle looms and shuttleless looms. Shuttleless looms are more advanced and have obvious advantages in output, quality and variety. At present, it is replacing shuttle looms in most weaving fields.

Shuttle-less looms are divided into rapier looms, projectile looms, air-jet looms, water-jet looms, multiphase looms, magnetic weft insertion looms, etc.

Second, how is the loom woven?

Weaving is weaving with a loom, which is different from ordinary weaving equipment. Only two healds are used to weave plain cloth, and at least five healds are needed for brocade. Each heald is connected with a pedal, and the pedal pushes the heald to stagger the warp yarns up and down.

Loom, the common name of loom. The earliest loom was the sitting loom (called waist loom). The use method is to step on the warp bar of the loom with your feet, hold the beating-up wooden knife in your right hand to tighten the weft, and make a gesture of throwing the weft thread with your left hand. This waist pedal machine has no frame, one end of the cloth winding shaft is tied to the waist, and the warp beam at the other end is pedaled by both feet to tighten the cloth.

The warp splitter divides the warp yarns into two layers according to odd and even numbers, lifts the warp yarns with heald bars to form a shed, picks them with bone needles, and beats them with beating-up knives. The most important achievement of waist weaving is the adoption of heald lifting rod, warp splitting rod and beating-up knife. Although seemingly simple, this loom has three actions: up and down opening, left and right weft insertion, and back and forth tightening. It is the prototype of the modern loom.