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Device for weaving textiles
A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry. The basic purpose of any loom is to hold the warp threads under tension to facilitate the interweaving of the weft threads. The precise shape of the loom and its mechanics may vary, but the basic function is the same. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: LoomA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Enhanced 2,3-Butanediol production by mutant Enterobacter ludwigii using Brewers’ spent grain hydrolysate: Process optimization for a pragmatic biorefinery loomInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Hand-loom weaving, plain & ornamentalThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Machine‐Washable Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Effective Human Respiratory Monitoring through Loom Weaving of Metallic YarnsCited 407 times
- Go sideways: Power loomA closely related topic
- Go sideways: WeavingA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A utensil; tool; a weapon; an article in general.
Noun A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
Noun The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade; the shaft.
Noun loon (bird of order Gaviiformes)
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Machine‐Washable Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Effective Human Respiratory Monitoring through Loom Weaving of Metallic Yarns
The Loss of Loss Aversion: Will It Loom Larger Than Its Gain?
When Do Losses Loom Larger than Gains?
Loom-Sensitive Neurons Link Computation to Action in the Drosophila Visual System
When Gains Loom Larger Than Losses
Vision system for on-loom fabric inspection
A narrative loom of hybrid nanofluid-filled wavy walled tilted porous enclosure imposing a partially active magnetic field
Inside the LOOM description classifier
🆕 Influential since 2022
Enhanced 2,3-Butanediol production by mutant Enterobacter ludwigii using Brewers’ spent grain hydrolysate: Process optimization for a pragmatic biorefinery loom
Side effects loom over Alzheimer’s drugs
Shallow neural networks trained to detect collisions recover features of visual loom-selective neurons
Tech-en-econ-energy-exergy-matrix (T4EM) observations of evacuated solar tube collector augmented solar desaltification unit: A modified design loom
The loom for general fishnet CFTs
📚 Books worth reading
Hand-loom weaving, plain & ornamentalLuther Hooper · 1910
The book of loomsEric Broudy · 1978- 📕Two-harness textilesHarriet Tidball · 1961
- 📕Handloom weavingP. Orman · 1930
Studies in primitive loomsRoth, H. Ling · 1918
Hand loom weaving for amateursKate Van Cleve · 1935
Weaving machinery for cotton, silk, woolen, worsted and special fabricsCrompton & Knowles Loom Works · 1918
The art of the loomAnn Hecht · 1989
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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- Weaving Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. The…
- Band weaving Band weaving is the hand production of narrow woven fabric. This fabric may be called tape, band, inkle, strap, belt, back strap, trim, and more. It can…
- Shed (weaving) In weaving, the shed is the temporary separation between upper and lower warp yarns, through which the weft is woven. The shed is created in order to make…
- Dobby loom A dobby loom, or dobbie loom, is a type of floor loom that controls all the warp threads using a device called a dobby. Dobbies can produce more complex…
- Glossary of textile manufacturing The manufacture of textiles is one of the oldest of human technologies. To make textiles, the first requirement is a source of fiber from which a yarn…
- Game of Thrones Tapestry The Game of Thrones Tapestry is a hand-crafted tapestry, woven by hand on a jacquard loom, with additional embroidery. The tapestry tells the entire story…
- Warp and weft In the manufacture of cloth, warp and weft are the two basic components in weaving to transform thread and yarn into textile fabrics. The vertical warp…