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A loom is an apparatus for weaving yarn into a textile by the crossing of vertical (warp) and horizontal (weft) threads.
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A textile is a woven fabric. The manufacture of textiles is one of the oldest human arts already well developed before history began, with loom weights and combs found with the remains of Iron Age Man.
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In weaving, the term tie describes any method of connecting the threads in a Jacquard loom to produce a desired pattern. The term is also applied to the arrangements of threads thus produced.
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Warp threads are the parallel threads which traverse a loom from end to end.
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Weaving is the art of interlacing yarn threads or other filaments by means of a loom, so as to form a web of cloth or other woven fabric. Two sets of threads are used which traverse the web at right angles to each other. The first set extends from end to end of the web in parallel lines and is called the warp; while the other set of threads crosses and interlaces with the warp from side to side of the web and is called the weft.
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Charles Babbage was a British mathematician. He designed an analytical engine which was the forerunner of the modern computer. He was born in 1801 and died in 1871. Educated at Cambridge, he occupied the Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge for eleven years, but delivered no lectures. As early as 1812 he conceived the idea of calculating numerical tables by machinery, and in 1823 he received a grant from government for the construction of such a machine. After a series of experiments lasting eight years, and an expenditure of 17,000 pounds (6000 pounds of which was sunk by himself, the balance voted by government), Babbage abandoned the undertaking in favour of a much more enlarged work, an analytical engine, worked with cards like the jacquard-loom; but the project was never completed. The incompleted machine is now in the South Kensington Museum (Science Museum). Among the many treatises he published on subjects connected with mathematics and mechanics few can be regarded as finished performances.
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Edmund Cartwright was an English cleric and inventor. He was born in 1743 at Marnham and died in 1823. He invented a mechanical weaving machine and took out four patents for a wool-combing machine. He was educated at Oxford, and took orders in the church. In 1785, he brought his first power-loom into action. Although much opposed both by manufacturers and workmen, it made its way, and in a developed and improved form is now in universal use. Edmund Cartwright spent much of his means in similar inventions, and fell into straitened circumstances, from which a parliamentary grant of l0,000 pounds relieved him.
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F Murray Abraham is an American actor and film director. He was born in 1939 at Pittsburgh. He is perhaps best known as the talking leaf from Fruit of the Loom TV commercials. In 1984 he was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award of Best Actor, won an oscar and won the Golden Globe award for best actor, for playing the second rate composer, Antonio Salieri, who competed with the young musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the film Amadeus.
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A cylinder is the name given to the revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.
In weaving, a heddle is one of the sets of parallel knotted cords forming loops for the warp threads; and by whose vertical reciprocation the warp threads are shifted so as to make the shed for the passage of the shuttle. Heddles are a necessary integral feature of all looms, having sets of strings for separating the warp threads into two or three groups, between which the weft is passed. This called mounting the loom and consists in dividing the warp among the leaves of healds or heddles.
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