Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine
- Made:
- c.1825 in London and Macclesfield
- maker:
- Warner and Sons and
- Warner and Sons and
- inventor:
- Joseph Marie Jacquard and
- Joseph Marie Jacquard and
Old Spitalfields hand loom for silk weaving, c.1840, fitted with Jacquard machine, c.1825, made by Guillotte, complete with lamp
The Jacquard loom, developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) in 1804, enabled a loom to weave patterned cloth. This is a hand loom, the Jacquard mechanism being hand-operated to select the healds to be raised or lowered once the operator presses the treadle to form the thread. The Jacquard mechanism most likely dates to the period 1820-1834, and was made seperately to the loom itself, which is circa 1840. The loom, which has 400 needles, was given to the Museum by Messrs Warner and Sons in 1914 when the firm was at the height of its activity at New Mills at Braintree in Essex.
Details
- Category:
- Textiles Machinery
- Object Number:
- 1914-469
- Materials:
- oak (wood), steel (metal), wrought iron, silk and textile
- type:
- looms
- credit:
- Warner and Sons
Parts
Loom shears
Parts for Spitalfields Hand Loom
bobbin rack from Jacquard loom
- Object Number:
- 1914-469/4
- type:
- looms