Weaving Loom

Basics

• This Page Aims to Overview the Basic Concept of Looms, Typical Machines in Use, and Potential Avenues of Development for OSE
• A Weaving Loom Essentially Amounts to Device to Hold Threads Allowing for Woven Textiles to Be Produced in an Easier Manner
• Most are also Automated nowadays
• They hold Threads under Tension which are called the Warp
• The Weft is then Woven through the many Warps
• The most simple implementations can be made from 2x4s and basic bolts etc, and simply have a Comb, a Mechanism to Hold the Warp Apart, and a Shuttle Thrown Back and Forth to move the Weft through the Warp
• More Sophisticated Machines can Manipulate the Location of the Warp Threads to allow for more Weave Patterns than a simple Plain Weave
• Also one can either manually, or via a variety of mechanisms swap the Weft Thread to another Color/Material Mid-Weave allowing for simple multicolored Bulk Fabric all the way to Tapestries / Woven Fabric Books (Interesting Concept, Doesn't Seem Too Common, and is somewhat Obsolete, but for Waterproof Books and Waterproof Charts may be of interest) (In 1886 Someone Made a Woven Silk Prayerbook Entirly by a Jacquard Loom which was one of the famous instances of this)
• Semi-Automated Looms, where the "Shuttle" is manually "thrown" but the Warp is adjusted by machine may be of interest for prototyping, especially with E-Textiles and other novel applications of weaving

See Also/Merge With

• Clothes (Despite the name, it's mostly on Textile Processes, could move content from there, then add in stuff specific on Garmet Manufacturing or perhaps just add on to the page?)
• Open source textiles

Temporary Trashcan Section

• https://hackaday.com/2022/11/28/desktop-sized-fully-automatic-loom-is-an-electromechanical-marvel/
• https://youtu.be/nBUR466rVQs?si=shOuC0driTHYvhXd
• https://youtu.be/DIBcBHc5His?si=xlzz1ZUFdE2WsnFO
• " Dobby Loom with 16 Harnesses"
• https://www.staubli.com/vn/en/textile/products/jacquard-weaving/lx-lxl-lxxl.html
• https://digitalweaving.no/tc2-loom/
• https://www.toyota-industries.com/products/textile/weaving/
• https://www.pickwell.in/textile-machinery/shuttle-looms/
• "fully jacquard loom"
• https://www.ri.cmu.edu/project/roboloom/
• https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc1dbf8116eb00e3c52b568/t/5fc5e1513c02f22b9dd814a3/1606803794499/underdetermined_computational_handweaving.pdf

Internal Links

• Open Source Textile Workflow Flowchart

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page On Looms
  • The Wikipedia Page On Weaving (Good Backround Information)
  • The Wikipedia Page On Textile Manufacturing Terms (Useful for Decifering all the odd Terms)
  • The Wikipedia Page On Jacquard Machines (Bit of Terminolgy Hell here, supposedly most modern systems use a common loom, with an add on Jacquard (Machine) ? I need to look into this more to be certain.