power loom
Industrial textile machine
A power loom is a mechanized loom driven by an external power source rather than human muscle.
The power loom was central to the Industrial Revolution, transforming textile production from cottage craft to factory industry.
The term now distinguishes any machine-driven loom from a hand loom: The mill ran three hundred power looms.
Obvious; inventor's monopoly
- industrial revolutionRapid economic mechanization period
- textile industrySector producing cloth goods
- spinning jennyEarly multi-spool thread maker
- flying shuttleSelf-propelled loom bobbin
cotton gin · steam engine · mechanization · automation · factory system · mass production · technological advancement · industrialization
Short-distance transport
- heddleLoom thread guide
- reedVibrating sliver for woodwinds
- harnessStraps controlling an animal
- beamStructural support member
treadle · bobbin · spindle · warp · weft · batten · let-off · take-up
Woven or knit material
- clothWoven or knit material
- cottonPlant fiber for textiles
- silkFine woven insect fiber
- woolSheared animal fiber
linen · synthetic · calico · muslin · denim · canvas · broadcloth · twill
Grain-crushing facility
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- outputWhat something generates
- efficiencyProductive without waste
speed · mass-production · productivity · workforce · operatives · shifts · piecework · quality control
patent
Obvious; inventor's monopoly
- industrial revolutionRapid economic mechanization period
- textile industrySector producing cloth goods
- spinning jennyEarly multi-spool thread maker
flying shuttle · cotton gin · steam engine · mechanization · automation · factory system · mass production · technological advancement · industrialization · innovation
shuttle
Short-distance transport
beam · treadle · bobbin · spindle · warp · weft · batten · let-off · take-up · picker
fabric
Woven or knit material
wool · linen · synthetic · calico · muslin · denim · canvas · broadcloth · twill · jacquard
mill
Grain-crushing facility
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- outputWhat something generates
efficiency · speed · mass-production · productivity · workforce · operatives · shifts · piecework · quality control · standardization
- textilescotton, wool, silk, fabric, thread
- British Inventionssteam engine, jet engine, spinning jenny, telephone, television
- Industrial Revolutionsteam engine, railroad, factory, coal, iron
- inventionsprinting press, steam engine, lightbulb, light bulb, microscope
- weavingwarp, shuttle, weft, shuttles, weave
- cotton textilescotton, cotton gin, cotton mills, cotton yarn, cotton cloth
power loomhand weaving
Interlacing threads manually
handweaving · cottage industry · hand spinning · homespun · traditional craftsmanship
power, powerful, loom, empower, powerless, looming, powered, empowered, powering