Identifier: reviewofreviewsw22newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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mechanism andm a c h i n e drawing, warppreparation, plain and fancyweaving, and hand-loomw^ork. The second yearsstudy embraces cotton-pick-ing, carding, combing andspinning, and mill engineer-ing. In addition, for rea-sons already made clear,the two-year course is taken up largely with de-sign and its applications. A visit to the weaving-room holds most fasci-nation to the art lover and to him who believesthat the true province of any technical schoolshould never be subordinated to the teaching of atrade. Apropos of this, the director of one ofthe most famous textile schools abroad once saidto visitors : Pray do not call this a weaving-school ; it is a school of art applied to weaving.The element of beauty which is required for tliefiner products of the loom means training in artfor the men and women workers in the textileindustries of the future. At the New Bedford school, consequently,original designing is given every possible stimu-lus. The process of application follows, for the
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THE NEW BEDFORD SCHOOL. COTTON-SPINNING ROOM. 70 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. designs are then woven by their inventors at in-dividual looms. In tlie interesting work ofproducing the pattern in the woven fabric thefreehand sketch is first redrawn on squared paperadjusted to the possibilities of weaving, eachsquare representing a thread. A skillful work-man prepares cards according to the design bypunching in them definite sets of holes. Theseperforated cards afterward suppress or releasethe individual wires of the Jacquard loom, verymuch as the perforated disk in a music-box pro-duces the desired air. Most people have only a vague idea of theworkings of the loom. One watches with fas-cination the movement of the harnesses asthey dexterously raise oneset of threads and lower thealternate set, thus openinga V-shaped shed throughwhich the shuttle shoots.The shuttle in its passagepays out the filling,which with the threads atright angles to it form thewarp and woof of the fabri

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