loom

     

A loom is a machine or evice for weaving thread or yarn into textiles. Looms can range from very small hand-held frames, to large free-standing hand looms, to huge automatic mechanical devices. A loom can also refer to an electrical cable assembly or harness i.e. wiring loom.

Trivia about loom

  • A machine used for weaving: your underwear may be the fruit of it
  • You can fashion pot holders, pillows & more by weaving pieces of yarn on one of these special frames
  • The 3 main types of woven rugs, velvet, Wilton & Axminster, are made on different types of this machine
  • Shuttle, beater, weft, warp, cloth roller
  • In 1785 Edmund Cartwright patented a "new invented machine for weaving", known today as a power this
  • (Sofia of the Clue Crew) This apparatus that goes back to ancient times turns yarn into cloth
  • Joseph-Marie Jacquard made his moolah inventing a new one of these