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Loom > Shaft loom
PREFERRED TERM
Shaft loom  
DEFINITION
  • It refers to a type of loom that has shafts to raise and lower the warp ends, to form a shed for the passage of the shuttle. Those shafts may be suspended from above in counterbalance.
BROADER CONCEPT
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre  International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Métier à lisses

French

Métier à lices
Telaio a licci

Italian

Telar de lizos

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/525
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