Check out an updated video on the process here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aaJ9m9iKpbOzZ5c.html

Today on stuff I never expected to have to look up: videos to work out how a loom in operation sounded.

@mountvernon

5 жыл бұрын

We are glad we could help you with your research.

"My name is Melissa Weaver Dunning" the way she introduces herself sounds so menacing for some reason and idk why but I like it!

Utterly fascinating! I would LOVE to learn this! My great-great-great grandfather was a Weaver by trade as he came from Germany to Canada then the US. What a wonderful video! Thank you for sharing! :D

I operated one of these yesterday making a rug. 1800's. It did not use the throw shuttle but a long stick with large notches on the ends. Pretty cool machines.

Great demonstration! I just found that my ancestors were weavers.

@Tsukuyomi28

4 жыл бұрын

Mine probably made cups. Based on my last name(becherer)

@Tsukuyomi28

4 жыл бұрын

At least some of them did

Melissa Weaver Dunning the Weaver. How much more appropriate of a name can you get???

1 shirt a year? wow!

@Tsukuyomi28

4 жыл бұрын

Dont wear it in the summer and it should last

Thank you, that was really informative and interesting.

To be completely honest with you guys, when I saw the intro I thought "we aRE OUTGUNNED, OUTMANNED"

Amazing!!!

Very interesting!

Very interesting.

I am trying to make authentic linen fabric of the colonial period. Can you tell me the width of the fabric and the warp ends per inch?

This is very much interesting ,even I am also weaver from India

@karnativishnu2103

5 жыл бұрын

Please let me know I need any information regarding the same

I am a weaver too, this was very nice to see....I have a question about something I see all the time...why is it that you do not advance the warp so that the shed is closer to you and you don't have to lean so far over to throw...just askin' ! I am also weaving with a linen warp right now and its a pain in the butt !!

@dawnklug6986

10 жыл бұрын

The old looms were made for longer weaving and the constant getting up/down to advance short warps was time consuming and the tensioning stayed better as the ratchet systems are not as precise as our modern looms. Also, these ladies show the public what life "REALLY WAS" in the 18th century and back breaking work was the norm.

@tradweaver

9 жыл бұрын

The optimal area for consistent weaving is in the center third of the warp between the breast beam and the beater on most looms - so you don't actually want to advance the warp as far as possible or the weaving will be rather inconsistent. On an old loom like this with a fixed bench, the weaver will not necessarily "fit" the loom and have to bend over more. I love weaving with linen, but it does have some special needs!

I'm here from "Empire of Cotton: A Global History" (2016), by Sven Beckert. Weaving, spinning, and the use of looms significantly predated Europe's incorporation of such technology, though more rudimentary: in countries like India, China, and Africa, predating even the Triangular Slave Trade in the 17th and 18th century. Also, some of the American enslaved were drafted as skilled weavers over the historical course of their involuntary servitude.

so this would be the equivalent of a 2 shaft loom? because of the 2 foot pegs?

Well that was interesting. I wonder if they grew and harvested their own flax, or if they imported it from else where.

Very simple weaving

So cool! Question - what did the foot pedals do? I assume they had something to do with the heddles?

@mountvernon

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, the foot peddles do have something to do with the heddles. They move the wooden bars that hold the heddles. When you are weaving, the weft thread (or filler) typically goes over one warp thread, then under the next, over one warp thread, under the next, all the way across the cloth. The peddles make it easy to create this over-under pattern because when one heddle bar moves, it separates the warp threads, lifting up every other strand. This creates a space for the weft to pass through. And when the weft goes between the warp threads, it is automatically going over the threads that are on the bottom and under the threads that the peddle lifted up. When the weaver puts the weft through the next time, he or she will push down the other peddle, which causes the warp threads to change places. The threads that were up are now down and vice versa. So now, the weft is going under-over, under-over instead of over-under, over-under. Switching between the two peddles is what holds the weft thread in place.

@CyclingM1867

4 жыл бұрын

Thank-you, both. 🙂

@mountvernon

3 жыл бұрын

Michelle we just uploaded a new video on the process which demonstrates the role of the heddles better: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aaJ9m9iKpbOzZ5c.html

What do the foot pedals do in this process? Seemed as if the upper movement was doing all the work? Also, why the need for humidity?

@jessesanders7086

7 жыл бұрын

Halane Cummings the foot pedals are connected to the counterbalanced shafts (the parts that hold all the thread ties or heddles). When the treadle is depressed, one shaft gets pulled down, but because it's connected to the other shaft by the pulley, the other one gets pulled up.

@mountvernon

3 жыл бұрын

Halane we just released an updated video about the weaving process that shows how the loom in entirety (including the foot pedals) works: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aaJ9m9iKpbOzZ5c.html

my weaving loom is 45x45x28 inches. i can make 300 pcs. of rugs 18x30" for the whole role of warp.

I would love to have a loom.

Wow!,...i tell you what every step of the way to make something back in those days was hard work. Look how far we have come. We are spoiled in today's times......i would love to time warp back in time for a day and just watch. Then time warp back to the Wal-Mart error.....we were pround of the simple thinks back then....

excellent

good.iam from tamilnadu INDIA.iam from weaver family.today any new technical ........??

Nostalgia, at that time every thing was blessed

@thetruthandnothingbutthetr6484

5 жыл бұрын

Lies ابن الحجاز العظيم

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Hi like your 90s shirt from the past

these look exactly like the looms at my school haha

i come here because of manga "dr.Stone". lol. so that is a loom create by using linen clothing. now i know. hahaha

Weaver's my middle name!

Hello I am weaver from india. ...

One shirt per year wtf

One shirt per year? I can’t say I’m surprised but... that’s awful. Either way, she’s a great weaver.

Very interesting.