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Home Dictionary Name: loominglow warp loom
a hand loom in which the warp is carried horizontally for weaving tapestry...
Cloth manufactured by mills
Cloth manufactured by mills, cloth has been divided broadly into two categories, mill made and loom made. The loom made cloth would include all cloth manufactured on looms. The energy by which the looms are worked would not make any difference. In other words whether the energy is supplied manually or by power cannot convert the essential character of the cloth, namely, its manufacture on looms. As regard mill made cloth the actual process of weaving is more or less automatic, pre-conceived and definite and it involves the functioning of machinery, Sales Tax Commissioner v. Ladha Singh Mal Singh, (1971) Supp SCR 941: AIR 1971 SC 2221: (1971) 2 SCC 407. [U.P. Sales Tax Act (15 of 1948), s. 3A]...
Drawboy
A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom also a part of power loom that performs the same office...
Mills
Mills, A 'mill' is a building where goods are subjected to treatment or processing of some sort and where machinery is used for that purpose. The mere fact that the looms worked by power are used in a building the essential characterists of 'mills' are not satisfied and if any cloth is manufactured on those looms would not be cloth manufactured by mills within the meaning of the notification. Sales Tax Commissioner v. Ladha Singh Mal Singh, AIR 1971 SC 2221 (2222): (1971) 2 SCC 407....
Drawloom
A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns called also drawboy...
Forebeam
The breast beam of a loom...
hand loomed
Woven on a handloom of fabrics rugs or carpets...
handwoven
same as hand loomed as a handwoven tablecloth...
Heddle
One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which with mounting compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom...
industrial revolution
The changes in the methods of production as well as the resulting changes in economic and social organization accompanying the replacement of hand labor by power driven machinery It started in England in about 1760 and spread to other countries with very varying time lags The introduction of powered machinery such as the steam engine and power loom led to the concentration of large areas of manufacturing in large companies and made some goods more plentiful and cheaper by mechanical production and economies of scale...
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