Manual Jacquard Loom
DOBBY - Page 1- Congratulations on your purchase of an AVL Dobby- Jacquard Loom. It’s time to get to know your loom. Please read the manual before. Jacquard's loom used series of punched cards Offsite Link to store patterns, reducing strenuous manual labor, and enabling repetitve production of complex. Looms with jacquard attachments See more ideas about Jacquard loom, Loom knitting and. This guide to the confusing world of knit fabrics will help you.
The Jacquard Loom was a mechanical loom for cloth weaving, first demonstrated by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801. It used a chain of punched cards laced together to allow the loom to create complex patterns. Any number of the cards could be chained together into a continuous sequence, with each card corresponding to one row of the design. Each position on the card corresponds to a ‘Bolus’ hook which can either be raised or stopped dependent on whether the hole is punched out of the position on the card or not. The hook raises or lowers the harness, which carries and guides the warp thread so that the weft will either lie above or below it. Modern Jacquard looms are controlled by computers in place of the original punched cards, and can have thousands of hooks.
Charles Babbage was aware of Jacquard loom cards, and planned to use cards to store programs in his Analytical engine, first described in 1837. Later in the 19th Century, Herman Hollerith used the idea of storing information on cards to create the tabulating machine which he used to input data for the 1890 US Census. Sources / Resources.
A loom from the 1890s with a dobby head. A dobby loom is a type of floor that controls all the using a device called a dobby. (The word dobby is a of 'draw boy' which refers to the weaver's helpers who used to control the warp thread by pulling on draw threads.) A dobby loom is an alternative to a. Both are floor looms in which every warp thread on the loom is attached to a single shaft using a device called a. A shaft is sometimes known as a harness.
Each shaft controls a set of threads. Raising or lowering several shafts at the same time gives a huge variety of possible (gaps) through which the shuttle containing the weft thread can be thrown. Dobby looms first appeared around 1843, roughly 40 years after invented the that can be mounted atop a loom to lift the individual heddles and warp threads. Contents.
Control A manual dobby uses a chain of bars or lags each of which has pegs inserted to select the shafts to be moved. A computer-assisted dobby loom uses a set of or other electric devices to select the shafts. Activation of these solenoids is under the control of a computer program.
In either case the selected shafts are raised or lowered by either leg power on a dobby pedal or electric or other power sources. Manual On a treadle loom, each foot-operated treadle is connected by a linkage called a tie-up to one or more shafts. More than one treadle can operate a single shaft. The tie-up consists of cords or similar mechanical linkages tying the treadles to the lams that actually lift or lower the shaft. On treadle operated looms, the number of sheds is limited by the number of treadles available. An eight-shaft loom can create 254 different sheds.
There are actually 256 possibilities which is 2 to the eighth power, but having all threads up or all threads down is not very useful. Most eight-shaft floor looms have only ten to twelve treadles due to space limitations.
This limits the weaver to ten to twelve distinct sheds. It is possible to use both feet to get more sheds, but this is rarely done in practice.
It is even possible to change tie-ups in the middle of weaving a cloth but this is a tedious process, so this too is rarely done. With a dobby loom, all 254 possibilities are available at any time. This vastly increases the number of cloth designs available to the weaver. The advantage of a dobby loom becomes even more pronounced on looms with 12 shafts (4094 possible sheds), 16 shafts (65,534 possible sheds), or more. It reaches its peak on a loom in which each thread is individually controlled. Another advantage to a dobby loom is the ability to handle much longer sequences in the pattern. A weaver working on a treadled loom must remember the entire sequence of treadlings that make up the pattern, and must keep track of where they are in the sequence at all times.
Getting lost or making a mistake can ruin the cloth being woven. On a manual dobby the sequence that makes up the pattern is represented by the chain of dobby bars. The length of the sequence is limited by the length of the dobby chain. This can easily be several hundred dobby bars, although an average dobby chain will have approximately fifty bars. Computer A computer-controlled dobby loom takes this one step further by replacing the mechanical dobby chain with computer-controlled shaft selection. In addition to being able to handle sequences that are virtually unlimited, the construction of the shaft sequences is done on the computer screen rather than by building a mechanical dobby chain.
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This allows the weaver to load and switch weave drafts in seconds without even getting up from the loom. In addition, the design process performed on the computer provides the weaver with a more intuitive way to design fabric; seeing the pattern on a computer screen is easier than trying to visualize it by looking at the dobby chain. Dobby looms expand a weaver's capabilities and remove some of the tedious work involved in designing and producing fabric. Many newer cloth design techniques such as can only reach their full potential on a dobby loom.
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See also. the cloth made on a dobby loom. References.