As the shuttles dashed through the warp they lifted up the heavy battens, and when the shuttles stopped they let the battens fall and pressed the threads together.
It is the centre from whence the mighty shuttlesply back and forth across the Atlantic, weaving the ocean-sundered sections of our race into one.
Plate 48, A is a wheel or pulley of about six inches in diameter, from which two cords proceed in opposite directions (B C) to the pickers, which drive the shuttles D E in the usual method.
The other day when I was going through the room one of these shuttles flew off, as they sometimes do when the looms are running at high speed.
The actual operations of joining threads, removing cops, replacing shuttles and so forth are not in themselves very laborious.
The weavers' work is to fetch the cops of weft (unless they have tenters or assistants to do the fetching and carrying), keep the shuttles full, and repair broken threads.
The controlling mechanism of the shuttles by means of draught and tie machines constitutes, at present, the most perfect apparatus of this nature, because they allow of a choice of any shuttles whatever.
Illustration] Fill the shuttles with the same cottons as in the 1st Edging, and use the same pins.
Refil the shuttles and tie the threads together in the space under the last made oval; [2 D (L, 2 D 4 times) join to the space under the next oval.
Fill both shuttles as before, and join the threads.
Most commercial and uncommercial travellers filling the swift shuttles of transit between the East and the West will remember that while passing through Michigan, over the Central road, the brakeman has shrieked the legend "Kal'm'zoo!
In the great North all the streams went singing to the sea, turning wheels and spindles, and casting shuttles back and forth.
Listen, and you will hear the looms and flying shuttleswith which they wove the cloth.
Let all the wheels whirl; let all the shuttles fly.
Weavers had made shuttles of it for home use on hand looms for many years before the demand came from power looms where the shuttles were thrown to and fro by machinery.
The sapwood of persimmon and dogwood makes shuttles and golf heads, but after the change to heartwood occurs, it is considered unsuitable.
Up to some thirty years ago, shuttles for factories were generally made of Turkish boxwood, but the supply fell short and the advance in price caused a search for substitutes.
Most of the supply is bought by manufacturers of shuttles and golf stick heads, in this country and Europe.
The demand for persimmon in a serious way began with its use as shuttles in textile factories.
Persimmon wood is suitable for shuttles because it wears smooth, is hard, strong, tough, and of proper weight.
Slowly revolving, it winds off the fabric as it is finished, leaving the shuttlesabove room to ply their work.
Some had an elegant and complicated pattern, and were woven with two shuttles (called the double-batten weaving) which came forward alternately, as the details of the rich flower or leaf required the one or the other.
The weaving of imitation shawls is executed, as usual, by as many shuttles as there are colours in the design, and which are thrown across the warp in the order established by the reader.
The class of shuttles known as revolving or rotating, and which really consist of a combination of the disk shuttle and the earlier rotating hook of Wilson, have been under trial by several makers for many years.
The long beak in both shuttles and hooks offers an immediate solution of the old difficulty experienced with long shuttles.
Indeed, the very best makers of sewing machines have always striven to keep down the bulk of the shuttle, and in those splendid machines shown here to-night the use of the small shuttles is conspicuous.
These are shuttles of the long description, moving in a segment of a circle.
In this apparatus, the disk-like appearance of the bobbin is partially lost in its considerable breadth, and there is thus a distinct departure from the lines of the ring shuttles before mentioned.
An extension of the same device is the multiple machine, in which four needles and shuttles are used, sewing all the four seams at one operation.
The removal of these in both has led to the adoption of an entirely new class of both shuttles and revolving hooks.
It consists, in fact, of a detached hook, and its inventor declines to class it with shuttles at all, styling it a detached hook.
The threads that run through the web of our life are carried byshuttles driven by an invisible but unerring hand.
It was in the same year that two other important and still flourishing industries were begun in Nashua,--the manufacture of shuttles and bobbins by J.
Over the whirr of the shuttles and all The roar and the rush, does he hear when we call?
Only the colors that grow and glow Swift as the hurrying shuttles go, Only the figures vivid or dim That flow from the hastening hands of him, Only the fugitive shapes are we, Wrought in the web of eternity.
She had to tend to the shuttles on the weaving machines.
He would take books to work and read them when the weaving shuttles were working right and did not have to have someone attend to them.
This consists of a receptacle for shuttles carrying different colors of thread which may be selected in a definite order and thrown back and forth so as to vary the pattern of the cloth.
Their shuttles were weapons of war, their warp was weighted with human heads, and they wove with human entrails the ghastly texture of "the loom of hell.
As they plied their shuttles they sang a dreadful incantation, on finishing which they tore the web into twelve pieces, and each taking her portion they mounted their black steeds and rode off, six to the north and six to the south.
Swift shuttles of an Empire's loom that weave us, main to main, The Coastwise Lights of England give you welcome back again!
The shuttles and spools are made by machinery; and more important still, both warp and weft is purchased ready-spun from mills.
When the piece is to be set, a large number of shuttles and spools are filled in advance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shuttles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
