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Side view of wooden frame with vertical pieces on the sides with horizontal pieces at top, middle, and near bottom. Between top and middle a flat cut out piece reinforces the structure. On each side is a wooden diagonal piece with a half circle cut out. Shafts and strings can be seen within the frame.
View of wooden frame from one side facing the weaver. At the top is a hanging beater set into brackets with a reed. Strings with handles can be seen in from of the reed. There is flat piece of wood between the two diagonal pieces on each side. A round beam is below that. Strings can be seen going around pulleys set into a piece of wood in the middle of the bottom crosspiece.
View from the top showing two shafts with string heddles. Pulleys with strings above and strings to pulleys below on bottom crosspiece. Beater can be seen behind the shafts.
Rectangular wooden board with a pair of short uprights at each end with two dowels between them. A wooden ratchet and pawl are next to an upright at each end.
Restored loom shows arms added on each side to hold wooden hole-and-slot heddle in the middle, resting on a block. Warp in blue, green, red, and yellow thread going from one end through the heddle to the other.
Side view of restored loom with heddle resting on the base. Warp threads clearly separated to make the shed. Hands visible on the right.
Loom assembled showing front breast beam, overhead beater, clothe beam, four shafts, and four treadles. A half-circle shaped loom bench is set into bottom bar at front of loom and leans out away from the loom.
Pieces of Second Weaver Rose Loom when it arrived. Pieces of wood of varying sizes and thicknesses laying across each other both horizontally and vertically. Only recognizable shape is of a wooden shuttle in foreground.
A wooden base on feet holds three vertical supports with a horizontal crosspiece half way up. The front upright leans at an angle toward the weaver. Dowels are set into the supports. String heddles are set between the first and second supports and tied to a dowel in the middle of the middle support. A warp goes through the heddles and around the dowels.
Two vertical supports hold the spool for the warp on one end and the spool for the woven tape at the other. Two horizontal pieces are between them. In the middle is a vertical wooden piece that is attached to the top horizontal board. On each side of it is a piece of wood that holds each of the two shafts with string heddles. They go through the crosspiece and are tied to the two treadles on the bottom. At the top is a pulley and the shafts are tied to that. A warp is threaded through the shafts.
Large wooden loom viewed from the side, warp beam on right rests in wide upright, Broad pieces of wood on side attached to tall front pieces. Overhead piece sticks out, cantilevers over loom and holds overhead beater. Breast beam is attached on side by metal bracket. Shafts with string heddles in foreground.
Front shows warp threads tied to board. Threads go through the reed and the string heddles on the shafts to the warp beam. Warp beam is pulled beyond the back of the loom on extenders on each side, wood pieces with notches, for ease of putting sizing on the threads.
Large wooden loom viewed from rear and side. Warp beam held by two broad pieces a flat board is under the warp beam. The back of four treadles can be seen under it. Two tall front posts hold a wooden frame that cantilevers over the loom. The overhead beater hangs from the frame. Also two short pieces of wood hold a rod over which hand the pulleys to which are attached the horses that hold the shafts.
Close up of metal bracket attached to a wooden post. Wooden breast beam fits within the bracket. Intricate geometric design carved into surface of metal.
Index through issue #121
Line drawing from patent, title at top says “Improved, combined spinning, reeling and quilling machine.” On left thin boards with short posts sticking up, gears under them. To right is an accelerating head with a band to a larger wheel. At bottom is signature of inventor, John Henry Nute.
Old photograph from 1871 of Nute Brothers’ Factory, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Carriage drawn by a white horse stands in front of a two-story wooden building. A row of six men stand on a ledge in front of the second story, the fourth man has wheels in his hands. Two men stand on a ladder going from the ledge to the wagon. They appear to be putting a wheel into the wagon.
One round front leg goes to two round bars that form a frame with two round back legs that go up beyond the drive wheel to a short rod. There is a stretcher between the back legs and two lower ones on the sides. A bobbin/flyer unit is above the single leg. The piston-style drive-wheel axle fits between the two tall legs and the footman is within the frame to the treadle.
Three turned legs support a rectangular frame made from turned pieces. The turned drive-wheel post holds the wheel that has twelve spokes and a flat rim. At the far end is the turned spindle post with an accelerating head on the top.
When the drive wheel is removed, the spindle post and drive-wheel post pivot to rest on the sides of the frame and are secured with a rope for transporting.
Close-up of drive-wheel post between the ends of the sides of the frame. A small, flat piece of wood is nailed between the sides of the frame. One wedge is placed vertically on the left side of the post and the other is set on the right horizontally.
Three narrow curved legs hold a highly polished curved table. A slot in the table holds a metal drive wheel with the wooden footman going through the table to a bell-shaped treadle set between the two front legs. A metal post to the left of the drive wheel holds the metal bobbin/flyer unit and a lantern-style distaff.
Three thin legs hold a highly polished curved table with parts of a bobbin/flyer mechanism. The drive wheel is set below the table, above a curved triangular piece that fits between the legs. A metal chain connects the drive wheel to the bottle-shaped treadle.
Close-up of top of table shows, from left to right, piston-style axle crank, with footman that goes through the table; metal drive wheel, and metal post that holds the bobbin/flyer unit and the distaff.
Close-up of metal drive wheel with piston-style axle crank that goes through back leg; the chain that connects the crank to the treadle, passing through a hole in the triangular wooden piece that goes between the legs.
Rectangular wooden base with upright that gears are set into. A rod goes through upright to round disc that holds six arms with crosspieces on the ends. Thread is wound around arms. Smart phone on table to left of base of reel.
Foreground shows base of a wooden reel, two arms of reel with thread around them. Middle ground includes a left hand holding a wooden object, a niks. In the background is a lazy-kate holding a bobbin with handspun thread.
Short wooden tube made from raw wood from horse chestnut branch with right-angle notches cut out of each end, resting on a round piece of gray felted fabric.
Two contemporary niksid from Estonia resting on striped multi-colored fabric. Niks on left made from sheep bone 9 cm or 3½”, with holes drilled in each end. Wooden one on right is longer, 13 cm or 5″, is made from larger piece of wood with right angle notches cut out.
Small bobbin/flyer wheel set on an ornately turned frame in two parts. Lower part has square base and four turned uprights. Treadle between uprights on left is at right angle to the footman. Two wooden pieces 9″ (~22.8 cm) by 5¼” (~13.3 cm) are between upper and lower frames. Upper frame is rectangular, held by four short turned posts, with a metal drive wheel 6¾” (~17 cm) diameter with 8 spokes on the right and the bobbin/flyer unit on the left. Mother-of-all moves on a threaded screw set into the left end of the frame. Two parts of the distaff are present.
Metal drive wheel, 6¾” (~17 cm) diameter with 8 spokes, axle rests in short post set into turned upper frame. Top of carved footman has a round piece of leather at the end of the drive-wheel axle.
Two wooden pieces 9″ by 5¼” (~22.8 cm by ~13.3 cm) support the two frames, with small spindles between them. Lower piece is at the top of the lower frame and the upper is the bottom of the upper frame. Threaded screw fits between the middle of them.
Yarn winder or reel marked D. KLEIN. Small wooden table with three legs supports an upright which holds a box with gears inside. Clock face on front of box. Six turned arms with short crossbars on the ends for holding the thread as it is made into a skein.
Flax wheel attributed to Heinrich Scheddel has rectangular table on three turned legs. Pair of turned wheel posts set into the table hold the drive wheel on the right. Pair of braces go from the wheel posts to the top of the table. Drive wheel has 12 spokes. The treadle, between the two front legs is attached to the drive wheel axle by a wooden footman. The bobbin/flyer unit is on the left end of the table. Two sections of the distaff are present.
