Guertin said weaving is in her blood. “When I was 9, my grandmother gave me a 4-shaft table loom and told me that my great-grandmother in Sweden was a weaver, and she said I was to be a weaver.

The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the weaving of wide cloth faster and easier, stood at the threshold between the largely handcrafted world of the past and the ...

John Gledhill, of New York City, has mad several improvements in looms, most of whicl are for weaving hair cloth, an article whicl: has heretolore been manufactured but slowly owing to the ...