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Page 1 (1100-1700) --- Page2 (The cards) --- Page3 (Flying shuttle looms)
Page4 (Rapierlooms, called shuttleless)
Page5 (Double velvet) --- Page6 (The
ribbonloom)
Page7 (A living workshop in Roubaix)
Pagina8 (It never ends)
A virtual visit in the jacquardmuseum.(Page 1)
The evolution from handloom to the first jacquardlooms.
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Traditional handloom, weaving hemp. These looms wer wide-spread in all farms from the 11th century, up to the start of industrial development (1840).
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Around 1740 we see the first looms with mechanism. A cilinder carrying 4 cards commands the shafts and decides the weave. With flying shuttle (invented in 1733)
Handloom with mechanism and flying shuttle (1733)
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Handloom equipped with jacquard mechanism (mid XIXth century). Each warp thread is commanded to lift indepentently, realising any imaginable pattern.
Early jacquardloom (1803).
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Jacquard mechanism, 104 hooks. (1803)
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A virtual visit in the jacquardmusem.(Page 2)
Two centuries of making cards.
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Making the cards, today a computeraided process, is the result of a complicated system, starting in the 18th century. The drawing was coppied on glass plates and projected on millimeter paper. This projection was the coppied on the paper to obtain the card drawing.
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Drawing in creation |
The card drawing
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Read in frame. The drawing is then read on the simple which is pending in the read-in frame.
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Perforation is done on the punching machine, first lever operated, later by steam and even later by electricity.
Punching machine
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In 1946, Mr. Verdol, (Switserland), developped the prototype for this card reader. All logical procedures are now read by means of elctronics.
Dactyliseuse Verdol
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Today, the creators no longer work on real cards, buth on computer programs. This programs will command the looms electronicaly. Visit our creation page to learn more..
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A virtual visit in the jacquardmusem.(Page 3)
Powerlooms with flyshuttles (1850-1960)
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This loom with jacksticks (1860) is surmounted bij 6 mechanisms. 10688 warp threads, 30 000 cards.
Powerloom nuyts.
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Loom Léon Olivier ( Roubaix 1900). Shuttles projected by picking sticks. A dobbymachine lifts the shafts.
Loom Leon Olivier |
Loom Dewaele-schotte (Harelbeke Belgium, 1910). This "pick-pick"loom counts four repetitions, reproducing the same pattern 4 times.
Loom Dewaele-schotte
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Loom Saurer (Switserland, 1958). Wide pick-pick loom(2,60 meters) with 2 mechanisms and 5 shuttles in lifting boxes, 120 RPM .....
Powerloom Saurer |
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A virtual visit in the jacquardmusem.(Page 4)
Powerlooms with rapiers, called shuttleless (1951-Today).
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Prototype Dewas.(Amiens 1951). This process with shuttle came into general use about 1960-70.
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Loom Fatex (Lyon 1968) One single rapier. 3 warp beams. 120 RPM.
Loom Fatex.
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Loom Dornier ( Germany 1987). 2 flexible half rapiers. 2 mechanisms, 275 RPM.
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Loom picanol (Belgium 1994). 2 flexible rapiers, electronic cards. 450 RPM. Worked in our mill till 01-05-2001.
Loom picanol
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A virtual visit in the jacquardmusem.(Page 5)
Double velvet loom. (1970)
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Loom Ywer (Pamplona Spain 1970) Not a jacquardloom, produces 2 velvets simultaniously. 3 warpbeams, 2 parallel rigid rapiers, contributed a lot to the fame of Flanders textile.
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A virtual visit in the jacquardmusem.(Page 6)
Ribbon-weaving loom. A real big marvel.(1884)
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Stearings of shuttles and warp.
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Ribbonloom (St. Etienne 1884) Weaves 12 silk ribbons simultaniously. Home production.
Ribbon weaving loom, Stéphanoise region.
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No warpbeams on this loom. The warp is delivered by 156 little spools.
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And wile the adults were weaving, kids starting from the age of 5 made the shuttle spools.
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Every ribbon has 4 little shuttles.
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A marvel of inventivity: the commands of the shuttles.
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Page 8 It never ends.
Almost every week, we are called up by other people, passionated by the patrimony of textile. They tell us about other looms and machines, heading for disappearance. We regret not to have the means or place to store and restaure all those wonders. We anyhow try to save whatever we can save. The pictures down here show the restauration of a wooden handloom. (about, 1900)
gift of Mr. Daniel Rebry, Ingelmunster, Belgium
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A virtual visit in the jacquardmusem.(Page 7)
A really living place (Roubaix 23-10-2001).
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Above, you have seen every single loom in our museum. These pictures can only give you a first little impression of the adventure you can live, while visiting the Manufacture des Flandres. We offer you a voyage trough 2 centuries of the patrimony of textile in Flanders and the north of France. In the same way as the prince did by kissing the sleaping beauty, let us awake for you this patrimony, so beloved by our ancestors. Let your 5 senses discover the know-how that once was the heartbeat of the region in our manufacturies.
Visit the page, with our co-ordinates, and come and enjoy all the pleasure a guided visit in "la Manufacture des Flandres" can give you. Former weavers, now guides, will comment your trip, not forgetting some humor, and will put to work every single loom. They will make revive for you the whole history of these techniques, and tell the stories of social and human interest, concerning the life of textile in this region. Bring your friends! All these marvels are explained in French, English , Dutch or German. A team of passionated souls invites you, die-hards who are eager to preserve this disappearing patrimony for you and your children. Help us, before this all disappears in thin air!!
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José Honoré
Multilingual guide. Organisation of the museum.
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Amélie Vandrisse
Public relations and reservations. |
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