Flying shuttle
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The flying shuttle or fly shuttle is a type of weaving shuttle. It was a pivotal advancement in the mechanisation of weaving during the initial stages of the Industrial Revolution, and facilitated the
From above, showing conical pirn, and end-feed mechanism (the yarn slips off the end of the pirn, which need not rotate).
Flying shuttle in the shuttle race
Holding the reed beater bar in the left hand, and the (picking-stick-mounted) string tugged to return the flying shuttle in the right hand. See video below.
Narrow tanmono loom with an obvious shuttle race on a top-mounted beater bar. Late 1800s Japan.
Spinning jenny
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The spinning jenny is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution. It was invented in 1
Flying shuttle
…flying shuttle exceeded the capacity of the spinning industry of the day and prompted the development of powered spinning machines. Beginning with the spinning jenny and the water frame until ultimately culminating in the spinning mule, which could produce strong, fine thread in the quantities needed these innovations…
Model of spinning jenny in the Museum of Early Industrialisation, Wuppertal, Germany
Spinning jenny at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
Hermann Sondermann Familie mit Frau am Spinnrad detail