Kellbot! » weaving http://www.kellbot.com Tinysaurs and Hacking and Nonsense Wed, 09 May 2012 16:49:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Jacquard Mechanism Simplified http://www.kellbot.com/2009/01/jacquard-mechanism-simplified/ http://www.kellbot.com/2009/01/jacquard-mechanism-simplified/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:07:39 +0000 Kelly Farrell http://www.kellbot.com/?p=105 ...]]> Spent the better part of the day at the Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin. They have an awesome Jacquard loom for ribbon weaving, and a great model which shows very clearly how the Jacquard head works.

Next week, Adam and I plan on building one.
I shot a few seconds of the actual loom, and then took some detail photos. The loom itself is HUGE:

Jacquard ThreadingJacquard head Tensioning Heddles from behind

I have a bunch of other weaving related stuff I’ll post over the next few days, as well as the video from my talk at 25c3 as soon as I get my hands on it.

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