WEAVING

the art of pois cloth ' the intersection of two sets of fibres right =>. ce¢ to one another, those which -lJonsitadinally from end to end being ed the warp, and those at right anele a these being called the weft or woof. eaving has been practised from the rliest times, but the aid of machinery tes only from 1733, when John Eay, of iry, invented tho SP aes which red the weaver touching the shuttle th his hands. ‘Then, in 1785, Edmund See mal loge tho power-loorm. is the weaver from the task of pving the siuttle backwards and forrds, and of moving the threads cp by pans of the “‘reed."” In 1801, Joseph equard, a French man, invented a form loom which much simplified the work weaving the patterns. WEBER, KARL, [s. 316]