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[edit] Plain weave in colonial America
This business of American Colonials preferring plain weave is simply not true.
Many different weave structures were woven in colonial America, from plain weave to a variety of twills, dimities, huck, diaper and huckaback as well as the more familiar overshot patterns. Wh shannnon locally produced fabrics expanded. But many home weavers throughout early American history wove more complex structures than plain weave.
This text requires some additions: weaving in other countries, more on the history of weaving (weaving and the Industrial Revolution etc), types of loom and weaving (backstrap, frame, rugs, carpets etc). I will add something.
Jackiespeel 11:29, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Please also add Weaving in India. -- Sundar 03:45, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Attention: Intro rewrite
There's been a couple of edits by Special:Contributions/User:194.222.59.249. The edits seem to be made in good faith but appear somewhat unencyclopedic, needing a major rewrite. Can some one watching this page look into that. -- Sundar 09:58, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
Can someone explain what is "wire work" or make the right redirect? It seems to be a form of beadwork. Thanks. --Eleassar777 09:13, 14 May 2005 (UTC) P.S.: Please also include the disambiguation: Wire-work is also a hyper-active gun fighting that appears in the movies of the directors such as John Woo and Ringo Lam.
[edit] Umm.. This isn't right!
"In Colonial times the colonists mostly used cotton and flax for weaving because the English would not send them sheep or wool. They could get one cotton crop each fall. Flax was harvested in the summer.
In preparing wool for weaving, colonists would first shear the sheep with..."
That needs to be fixed, but I don't know how it should be fixed. --205.213.6.3 18:37, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Merger of Warp (weaving) with Weaving
- should definitely be merged it realy needs to be merged now, as warp other than a weaving term is also a very popular tech club..so warp, the weaving part will get its right place in the weaving section. Every time i make an entry about this club warp, it gets deleted sooner or later so i think to curb this, it should undoubtedly be merged with weaving..an immediate decision should be taken.
- Disagree I don't think it should be merged, as it is a common enough term that it deserves its own page. Also, the tech club is continuously removed because it doesn't belong in a discussion of warp with respect to weaving. There are several meanings of warp, and they have their own pages. See warp (disambiguation) Loggie
- I think that warp should be left as it is. User:Noisy | Talk 01:11, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
- merge it..afterall weaving is incomplete without a mention of warp...go ahead (This from Hexadude (talk • contribs))
- Disagree a discussion of weaving is incomplete without a mention of warp, however there are different warps and wefts, and the nature of woven fabric is largely determined by what is used (this is why I'm on this page- that's all I know and I was looking for more information). the incomplete nature of the warp and weft side articles should not be mistaken for lack of validity, only recognized as lack of (current) content. Darker Dreams 17:19, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
- Disagree Warp (in the weaving sense) deserves an article in its own right. We already have a disambiguation page in place, so the fact that there are alternate meanings of Warp as you correctly pointed out, is no reason to merge this article. └UkPaolo/talk┐ 15:55, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
- Disagree with merging warp into weaving. Warp (and weft) would benefit from a proper write-up on their own pages IMHO, making it easier for editors to link to very specific information rather than the wider topic of weaving. There are many entries for warp on the disambiguation page, merging this particular definition will not change anything for the original editor who proposed this. Velvet-Glove 00:12, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- I took the merge tag off. It looks to me like the concerns leading to the merge (disambiguation with a tech club and linking from Weaving article) have been addressed.Lisamh 02:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Where did the non-perpendicular weave go?
Some months ago, a came across a definition for a textile, that was woven but non-perpendicular. It seemed as if it were describing something other than non-woven. I have developed a new type of fabric with a new method of construction and was looking for the proper terminology to describe it.
- I think a gauze weave involves somehow wrapping the threads around each other, and is not strictly orthogonal, although it is on the large over-all scale. 69.87.200.195 11:09, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What about England?
The present articel seems to be too focused on Colonial America. There is a large section missing on weaving in England and Europe.
Furthermore, I suspect that the statement that weaving was prohibited in America is wrong. British policy encouraged the colonies to be producers of raw materials for manufacture in England and consumers of British products. The export of wool from England was illegal, but I see no reason why Americans (for example in New England) should not have spun and woven their own cloth. If they did not how has the term 'homespun' arisen - surely that is not purely post-revolutionary. Peterkingiron 22:53, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
A great encyclopedia article about Weaving would be very lengthy -- at least ten times as long as presently. See the eb1911 link listed, or look up the subject in a real encyclopedia in your local library, to get an idea of what is missing... 69.87.200.195 11:04, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Any one interested in another project
I have just started a new wiki at Craftacular.com. It runs on the same software as wikipedia, but the goal is a little different.
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[edit] The majority and efficienty of Jacquard weaving in the moder Western textile
"The majority of commercial fabrics, in the West, are woven on computer-controlled Jacquard looms. In the past, simpler fabrics were woven on other dobby looms" - this is really not truth. Most of the weaving factories all over the world are stilling to use both 4 types of shedding motions have been ever developed: inside cam motion, even inside crank motions (mostly for 1 -by-1 plane weaving), dobby (the newest development is Electronic Doby system, the most popular is stilling Electronic boddy produced by company of Stauebly). The selection of the type of the shedding motion for the loom really depends on the fabric type to weave on it. In any case the weaving of the simple fabrics on the looms with Jackuard shedding motion systen could never be reasonable from 1-st of all ecenomical point of view cause of - lower production speed of the loom with Jackuard shedding motion, - higher operation costs of the Jackuard weaving loom (cause of Higher energy consumption, higher maintanance costs, higher labour consumption for operation and service). So the weaving of the simple fabrics (which have the most share in the World-wide fabrics output) can never be reasonable from point of veiw of the economical effeciency. From other hand the modern weaving looms are really computer-controlled for all the operation (such as warp tension, weft insertion, pick-find and others) and all the looms could be combined with all 4 mentioned types of the shedding motion systems and in fact all this systems takes place in the weaving industry in fact. The share of the Jackard weaving (in the loom installed capacity Worldwide) according to my estimation is not more then 5 % (both West and East). The Jackuard weaving takes place mostly in some special purposes there it could not be avoided cause of fabric construction reasons, such as: some areas of the Home textile (curtains, upholstary (furniture) fabrics, tapestry weaving, production of some Juckuard-design goods: Jackuard terry towels, Jackuard fabrics for garments, carpets). So Jackuard weaving is mostly using for production of non-mass products there is necessary to produce wide-range of complicated-design fabrics assortment but with small production volume of every single position. For the most of mass products are mostly used and economically effective the looms with more simple shedding motion systems such as inside crank, inside cam and Electrinic Dobby shedding systems. Anyhow the mass textile is now dying in the West. So the companies which are stilling to continue in Europe and North America have to find their specialisation in the non-mass products so it results that the share of Jackuard is increasing in such regions but not too much till I think 10 - 20%. For example a lot of Jackuard-equiped factories are stilling to exist in Belgium and they produce good furniture velvet fabrics, tapestry and carpets. But for production of some kinds of fabrics such as some technical fabrics the Jacquard shedding motion was never been used.
Best regards, Dr. Alexey V. Silakov [1]
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[edit] WikiProject?
I'm thinking about starting a WikiProject for Textile Arts that would include all the usual crafts (weaving, sewing, knitting, crochet, lace, etc.) plus clothing and fashion design. We basically need to find 5 editors who are interested in contributing. A WikiProject would allow us to use tags to monitor the progress of our field, using the [[Mathbot assessments. We could also make common templates, info-boxes and whatnot, and it might draw other textile-enthusiasts to us. I'd be willing to get it off the ground, programming-wise; are people here interested in joining? Thanks! :) Willow 10:15, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Expansion
I have sought to deal with the omission of Great Britain from this article. I have also altered the start of the section on Colonial America: I do not think the British prohibited weaving (as was stated). If I am wrong in this, please cite your source for this statement, preferably from a reputable academic source. However it is still not entirely satisfactory:
- The section on America has a long section of the preparation of fibres, which is not part of weaving, but processes preliminary to it. This does not belong here.
- As some one else has pointed out, information is needed on weaving in India, and no doubt many other countries.
Peterkingiron 18:03, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
