Shy, slender-waisted girls at the loom in harmony with the frangipani by the wayside.

While most crochet is made with a hook, there is also a method of crocheting with a knitting loom.

Dissatisfaction with this state of affairs continued to loom over Nerva's reign, and ultimately erupted into a crisis in October 97, when members of the Praetorian guard, led by Casperius Aelianus, laid siege to the Imperial Palace and took Nerva hostage.

The latter shows limp figures with featureless or hidden faces, over which loom the threatening shapes of heavy trees and brooding houses.

On the eastern front, the Turks continued to loom large as a threat, although war would mean further compromises with the Protestant princes, and so the Emperor sought to avoid that.

Other inventors increased the efficiency of the individual steps of spinning ( carding, twisting and spinning, and rolling ) so that the supply of yarn increased greatly, which fed a weaving industry that was advancing with improvements to shuttles and the loom or ' frame '.

The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with complex patterns such as brocade, damask and matelasse.

The loom is controlled by punched cards with punched holes, each row of which corresponds to one row of the design.

Even for a small loom with only a few thousand warp ends the process of re-threading can take days.

Image: Jacquard. loom. hooks. jpg | Close-up view of comber board, harness, mails, weights ( Lingoes ) and warp with 1040 ends

File: JacquardWeavingPoland. jpg | Weaving on a jacquard loom with a flying shuttle at the Textile Department of the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland.

Due to the reduction in the number of electrical items the wiring loom was reduced in complexity which saved weight and also the battery was replaced with a smaller one, again reducing weight.

While stationed in St Kitts, West Indies, on, he had his first encounter with Clements Markham, then Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society ( RGS ), who would loom large in Scott's later career.

The textile industry was the first to be mechanized — with the powered loom — during the Industrial Revolution.

A back strap loom with a shed-rod.

* 298 AD – earliest attestation of a foot-powered loom with a hint the invention arose at Tarsus

: But she loved not the pacing tread this way and that beside the loom, nor the delights of merry feasts with her companions in the household.

An Axminster-type power loom is capable of weaving high quality carpets with many varying colours and patterns.

Ballot stated that Jacquard initially helped his father operate his loom, but the work proved too arduous, so Jacquard was placed first with a bookbinder and then with a maker of printers ' type.

The loom was declared public property in 1806, and Jacquard was rewarded with a pension and a royalty on each machine.

* Bolus hook, an instrument in a Jacquard loom

A loom from the 1890s with a dobby loom | dobby head.

A loom from the 1890s with a dobby head.

Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one ; a shifting harmony of subpatterns.

A loom from the 1890s with a dobby head.

Sculpture on the exterior is limited ; the Four Evangelists and the head of Jesus appear on the entry wall on Michigan and gargoyles loom from the bell tower.

Depending on the historical period portrayed, these might include spinning, sewing, loom weaving, tablet weaving, inkle weaving or tapestry weaving, cloth dyeing, basket weaving, rope making, leather-working, shoemaking, metalworking, glassblowing, woodworking or other crafts.

A large bobbin of the sort that might be used in an industrial textile loom.

Some looms have roller bars that allow the weaver to produce pieces that are longer than the loom.

The warp-weighted loom is a vertical loom that may have originated in the Neolithic period.

He sees that there are women within, and that they have set up a particular loom ; the heads of men are the weights, the entrails of men are the warp and weft, a sword is the shuttle, and the reels are composed of arrows.

The basic tools have remained much the same since then. A typical loom for hand weaving of smaller tapestries still in use in Scandinavia.

In the loom chamber, spinning room, weavers sitting room and ' gas-lit ' cloggers shop, the volunteer helpers give regular demonstrations of the type of crafts that would have existed during the nineteenth century.

It jumps from the last shot which shows the mother handling the wool on the loom to the final shots which have the mother standing inside the

About 1676, under the name of the Dutch loom or engine loom, it was brought to London ; and, although its introduction there caused some disturbance, it does not appear to have been prohibited.

Exporting a UK loom would have been illegal.

For a mechanically driven loom to become a commercial success, either one person would have to attend one machine, or each machine must have a greater productive capacity than one manually controlled.

Because the weft does not have to be stretched on a loom in the way that the warp is, it can generally be less strong.

However, multilayer weaving is required to have multiple layers of warp yarns to create fibres in the z-direction creating a few disadvantages in manufacturing, namely the time to set up all the warp yarns on the loom.

The textiles would have been made using a backstrap loom.

New York politicians have historically tended to loom large on the national political scene, reflecting the importance of the state, and more presidential candidates have been governor of New York than anything else.

The original can only have been the Connachta, whose power, position and prestige in the earliest part of the historical period are unquestionable and who loom large in prehistory as the traditional enemies of the Ulaid.

Turn a corner or enter a home, and one is bound to find someone bent over a loom, pouring melted metal into moulds, or putting the finishing touches on an intricately carved chest, wall décor, or giant drum ( which is said to have been used in the past by the sultan to call his people to meetings ).

Several specimens have imprints of fine loom woven cloth, representing the first unequivocal evidence for the presence of the loom in prehistoric Oceania ( ibid.

The wood was green as mosses of the Icy Glen ; the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap ; the industrious earth beneath was as a weaver's loom … " Herman Melville was living not too far from Pittsfield when he wrote the novel, and he is known to have visited the Ice Glen on at least one occasion.

It is clear that most of the dwellings in Cononley date back to mostly the 17th century ; the oldest surviving building ( Milton House ) dates from 1635 ; however, it is rumoured that The Old Hall part of Cononley Hall, which was thought to have been a Jacobite safe house in the 18th century ( escape tunnel in the fireplace ), could be much older, and has a stone in the loft dated 1436, whilst the other half mostly date back to the first half of the 19th century, which was when the village was a centre for hand loom weaving and lead mining.

Fortune Magazine described it as " a private company run for profit and its handful of stockholders have used their earnings from the sweepstakes to build a group of industrial enterprises that loom quite large in the modest Irish economy.