The war teaches this lesson well, but won't it be great when everybody is singing over his goldenshuttle and laughing?
The live-long day seems to me now like a shuttle driving back and forth, weaving from soul to matter, a golden fabric.
We shall see its functions and logical action, then begin the shuttle and weave back and forth with that pliancy that sees the deepest of metaphysics in an old man lighting a pipe or loitering over a pork-pie.
Adam, still intent upon his purpose, for, though he looked steadily at Faith, he knew that Sylvia drove the shuttle in and out with a desperate industry that made her silence significant to him.
The king likewise heard the noise of the shuttle in the loom, and the sweet melody of the beautiful woman's song, and then the pleasant voices of herself and the four maidens talking together, with peals of merry laughter intermixed.
But just listen to the pleasant voices of those maidens, and that buzz of the loom, as the shuttle passes to and fro," said another comrade.
In art, Severus is represented as a bishop with a shuttle at his side.
In common weaving, the weft threads pass alternately under and over the entire warp threads, which are lifted up to allow the weft in the shuttle to traverse from one side to the other.
One would expect to see a shuttle but perhaps this was too small an object for so rough a picture--perhaps the man at the smaller loom holds an exaggerated shuttle L in his right hand.
I think confirms the view that E is not the shuttle but the beater-in.
Putting in the woof, but not by a shuttlethrown with the hand.
Weaver at his loom is sitting, Throws his shuttle to and fro; See you not how shape and order From the wild confusion grow, As he makes his shuttle go'?
As the Weaver makes His shuttle Hither, thither, scud and scuttle.
But just listen to the pleasant voices of those maidens, and that buzz of the loom as the shuttle passes to and fro," said another comrade.
We look and think, and odd associations weave our thinkings sometimes, perhaps, into a queer mottled garb, though we would solemnly aver the woof through which the shuttle of our fancy plays is every fibre of it truth.
Now, by his new shuttle he dispensed with the services of one of these artisans, and by means of his arrangement for quickly sending the shuttle along the lathe of the loom, much more cloth was produced.
In many cases, also, yarn is specially required to be spun upon the bare spindle as on a mule, as for instance when used as weft and put into the shuttleof a loom.
Still the shuttle continued to be used, for the makers of cloth had learned that increased production meant more work, and possibly greater profit, and though Kay disappeared, his works remained behind.
And her shuttleshall fly, and her beam shall bang, from hour to hour, till the day is well nigh done.
Who plies her loom, with shuttle and beam, and sings at her work with so blithe a heart?
If it is true that "ever since creation shot its first shuttle through chaos design has marked the course of every golden thread," then every human being is designed to fill a certain place in life.
On it Shakespeare stood, driving a shuttle through the warp and woof of a weaver's loom and wove out for himself a name and fame immortal.
But I recognised the pattern this time, and I had made up my mind not to interfere with the shuttle again.
So it was early January before the Ramchunderji shuttle stirred again.
Weave back and forth until all the wool in the shuttle is used.
Push the shuttle back through the shed, lay the plain heddle flat, and stand up the notched heddle.
You will have to thread the shuttle twice for this, as too long a thread will make so large a bunch that it will be difficult to pass it through the shed.
When you have passed theshuttle through, leave the thread like Fig.
Turn here and do not take up the last thread of the warp; pass the shuttle under three threads, turn on the next thread, and bring it back under four threads (C, Fig.
With the notched heddle on edge push the shuttle through the shed--that is, between the upper and lower threads of the warp.
Weave it across twice, or once over and back, making a very narrow red stripe, then cut it off and thread the shuttle with white.
Take five yards of white wool, fold one end over a two-yard length, fold again, and push the double end through the eye of the shuttle (Fig.
From another flat stick of the same thickness, nine inches long by one inch wide, make the shuttle (Fig.
The Heddles are for lifting the threads of the warp so that the shuttlemay be passed through.
Nor'land 'gainst Southland then she drove, A million serfs to free; The reeking shuttle lifeward wove, Through death from land to sea.
This is occasioned by letting the cotton from the shuttle hang loosely instead of drawing it out and holding it tightly stretched.
Hold the shuttle steadily, with the cotton stretched tightly out, and with the second finger of the left hand slip the loop thus made under the thumb.
Hold the shuttle between the thumb and first and second fingers of the right hand, leaving about half a yard of cotton unwound.
The only necessary implements for tatting are a thin shuttle or short netting-needle, and a gilt pin and ring, united by a chain.
Fill the shuttle with the cotton (or silk) required, in the same manner as a netting needle.
Mrs. Walden passed upstairs to throw theshuttle of the loom.
The other heddle is then raised, and the shuttle thrown back again, each time leaving a line of weft behind it.
While her pearl shuttle darted in and out among her fingers like a tiny, iridescent bird, her mind and tongue were busy with important matters.
Aunt Jerry wrapped the lacy tatting stuff she had been making around the pearl shuttle and, putting both away in the Japanese work-basket, carefully snapped down the lid.
In the late afternoon Aunt Jerry sat in the rose-arbor with her Japanese work-basket beside her, and a pearl tatting-shuttle between her thumb and fingers.
Through the warp of your convictions sent the shuttle of my thought Till the web became the Credo, for us both, of Should and Ought?
That and the fly shuttle and the spinning jenny,” the Nigerian said.
He’d seen some of this world as the shuttle rocket had brought them down from the passing liner.
The Shuttle dominates our technology development effort and correctly so.
As the Shuttle development phases down, however, there will be added flexibility to consider new space applications, space science and new space exploration activities.
I have been pleased to support strongly the necessary funds for the Shuttle throughout my Administration.
It is true that both the fly-shuttle and drop-box had been invented by that time, but the loom was still worked by human power.
The plan was merely to substitute for human hands hammers at the ends of a lengthened lathe along which the shuttle ran, the hammers being set in motion by the jerking of a stick (the picking peg) to which they were attached by strings.
The principle of the fly-shuttle was a first step towards the complete mechanizing of the action required for working a loom.
Most of the weaving was done by men, and until the invention of the fly-shuttle they cast the shuttle from hand to hand in the manner of their remotest ancestors.
Another idea, which however proved fruitful, was that of grinding the shuttle through the warps by the agency of cog-wheels working at each end upon teeth affixed to the upper side of the shuttle.
