Dobby loom
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Dobby loom
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A dobby loom, or dobbie loom, is a type of floor loom that controls all the warp threads using a device called a dobby. Dobbies can produce more complex fabric designs than tappet looms but are limited in comparison to Jacquard looms.
Dobby looms first appeared around 1843, roughly 40 years after Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the Jacquard device that can be mounted atop a loom to lift the individual heddles and warp threads. The word dobby is a corruption of "draw boy," which refers to the weav
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Floor loom with a dobby mechanism for weaving geometric patterns
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobby_loom
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2024-03-16T13:10:46Z
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