2. Loom
• A machine for producing fabric by weaving.
Hand looms Power looms
Shuttle looms Shuttle less looms
Projectile Rapier Air jet
Water jet
3. Hand looms
• Oldest and most conventional method of
weaving
• Specialized and value added fabric
• Slow speed
• Not fit for commercial manufacturing
4. Plain Weave
• The simplest of all weave interlacings, in
which the odd warp threads operate over one
and under one weft thread throughout the
fabric and the even warp threads reverse this
order to under one, over one throughout.
