the heddles carrying the warp threads shift position, and the process is repeated. [Fraens]’ version of the flying-shuttle loom is built mostly from 3D-printed parts, with a smattering of ...

[Roger de Meester] decided to recreate that part of the industry’s history, in a way, by building his own desktop-sized, fully automatic loom ... forth through the warp by a belt-driven system ...

The most important of these are loom weights used to stretch the warp threads of the hanging vertical loom. These weights were made of stone or clay and are left in the archaeological record.

The warp-weighted loom uses a system of holding the warp threads parallel under tension by tying them in small bunches to weights made of stone, pottery or metal. From the beginning of Western history ...

The loom, an ancient yet ingenious device ... tension of the threads through her posture and movements. “This is warp thread and that is weft thread. These small wooden rods have different ...