Jacquard Weaving and Designing
Principles of Figured Textile Production, Loom Pattern Drafting, and Jacquard Card-Cutting TechniquesBy T. F. Bell
Length6h 32m
About this audiobook
T. F. Bell's *Jacquard Weaving and Designing* is a substantial technical guide to the principles and practice of Jacquard textile production. It explains the relationship between design, figured structure, loom mechanism, and the preparation of punched cards, while directing attention to the calculation and organization required for translating a drawn pattern into woven fabric. Combining descriptive exposition with the methodical habits of a workshop manual, the book belongs to the nineteenth-century literature of industrial arts, in which textile knowledge was systematized for designers, engineers, and skilled manufacturers. Its importance lies in treating artistic invention and mechanical precision not as opposing disciplines, but as mutually dependent stages of production. Bell writes from within the culture of professional textile education and manufacturing that accompanied the expansion of mechanized weaving. His subject reflects an era when the Jacquard apparatus had transformed the possibilities of figured cloth, yet demanded increasingly specialized knowledge from those who designed, prepared, and supervised its operation. The book's practical orientation suggests an author concerned with preserving craft experience while rendering it intelligible through orderly explanation, technical terminology, and repeatable procedures. This volume will reward textile historians, students of industrial design, and practitioners interested in the foundations of programmable pattern-making. Readers seeking a richer understanding of how nineteenth-century technology joined imagination to manufacture will find Bell's work especially valuable: it is simultaneously a manual, a record of professional culture, and a lucid document in the history of weaving.
Audiobook details
GenreOther
Length6 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 12, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1READING OR LASHING THE PATTERN
2CROSS’S COUNTERPOISE HARNESS
3THE COMB DRAW LOOM
4THE BARREL OR CYLINDER LOOM
5FRENCH DRAW LOOM
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6DOUBLE-ACTING JACQUARD WITH TWO CYLINDERS
7JACQUARD STOP MOTION
8LINGOES OR LEADS
9HARNESS TWINE
10SETTING THE JACQUARD
11HECKS OR GUIDE REEDS
12PREPARING THE NECK OF THE HARNESS
13CUMBER BOARDS AND HARNESS REEDS
14SLABSTOCKS AND LEVELLING FRAMES
15LEVELLING THE SLABSTOCK OR FRAME
16TYING UP THE HARNESS
17VARNISHING A HARNESS
18TO ARRANGE THE TIE OF A HARNESS
19TO MARK OUT A CUMBER BOARD
20TO VARY THE SET OF THE HARNESS
21LETTERS, MOTTOES, ETC.
22WIRING CARDS
23CROSS-BORDER JACQUARDS
24OPEN-SHED JACQUARDS
25THE VERDÔL JACQUARD
26HALF HARNESS AND MUSLIN HARNESSES
27SPLIT HARNESS
28PRESSURE HARNESS
29TWILLING JACQUARDS
30HAND-LOOM GAUZE HARNESS.
31GAUZE HARNESS
32THE GAUZE REED.
33DOUBLE CLOTH AND QUILTING HARNESSES
34CHAPTER IX TAPESTRY AND PILE WORK
35CHAPTER X CARPETS
36CONCLUSION
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