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SINGEING CLOTH PREPARATORY TO PRINTING 



Before cloth can be printed, all the little knots and threads and fuzz must be eliminated. 

 A machine working on the principle of a lawn-mower first passes over it and eliminates all 

 the knots and threads. Then the cloth goes through a singeing-machine, passing over a gas 

 flame at a speed which permits all the fuzz to be burned off, but which saves the cloth from 

 being scorched. 



ders filled with live steam. Thus starched 

 and dried — a process serving to make the 

 yarn less apt to tangle and less liable to 

 injury by the friction of the shuttle — it 

 is wound around the "loom beam." 



When the housewife uses her sewing- 

 machine she has to 'Thread" it first. So, 

 also, in weaving, the loom must be 

 threaded with the warp. For plain weav- 



ing there are only two sets of "needles" 

 to be threaded. These are known as 

 harness, and consist of wires or twine 

 cords, each with an "eye" in the middle. 

 Each alternate thread goes through an 

 "eye" of one harness, and the others 

 through the corresponding "eyes" of the 

 other harness. 



Fancy weaves require more harnesses 



