The main idea with weaving is to raise alternate warp threads, which run with the length of the fabric, to create a virtual space, called the shed, through which a shuttle carrying the weft thread ...

From the beginning of Western history until the Middle Ages, the main weaving tool was this type of loom ... The loom consists of two vertical uprights, a horizontal warp beam, a shed rod, a heddle ...

Robin Longbottom looks at how the manufacture of worsted cloth was once a major industry in the area FOR almost three centuries, the manufacture of worsted cloth was a major industry in Keighley and ...