![]() ![]() weaver, gold and/or silver gold and/or silver lace or braid weaver tinsel lace maker (i) a power loom weaver q.v. who minds a loom, weaving felts for use in paper-making or other machinery looms may be from ten to forty feet in width cf. who minds a weaving loom on which ornamental fabric, ribbons, etc., are woven with a plain or coloured repetition pattern, to imitate hand embroidery. weaver, embroidery a hand or power loom weaver q.v. mat weaver (cocoa fibre, coir) weaves coir mat fabric, usually on a hand loom. who weaves bands of trimming, usually under £ inch in width, for railway carriages, motor cars, and carriages, in silk, cotton, or worsted, using a small-wares loom with several shafts and a jacquard attachment. pastings and taggings weaver a power loom weaver q.v. who makes chenille fur to be used as weft (pile) for chenille carpets works from a design-paper plotted into squares, showing order and colours of yarns inserts, by hand, across loom, shuttle carrying required colour to match square or squares of design-paper stops loom, changes shuttle, and restarts loom. setting weaver sets chenille fur into carpet on loom lightly combs up each row of chenille fur, by hand, so that it beds up against previous row with which it must be matched. weaver, carriage trimming as for weaver, coach lace, except that trimmings are usually over 1½ inches wide. weaver, carpet (hand loom) see weaver, hand loom (carpets). who minds a number of looms which replenish their own weft. weaver, automatic loom a power loom weaver q.v. braid, dress goods, blanket, hessian weaver. box loom, dobby, Northrops weaver or according to class of article produced e.g. alpaca, jute, asbestos weaver or according to type of loom, e.g. a series of parallel threads, or warps, by a crossing thread or weft, which moves backwards and forwards across the warp threads on a loom, which may be either a hand loom or power-driven see hand loom weaver, power loom weaver often further distinguished according to material used e.g. weaver, loom weaver forms cloth or other textile material by interlacing, entwining, etc. warp loom, for knitting artificial silk scarves, etc., having all its threads on warp beam, and having no weft guides thread ends through machine, starts-up machine and keeps it going, repairing broken threads when necessary cf. warp loom knitter attends a horizontal knitting machine, i.e. tinsel lace maker see weaver, gold and/or silver. ![]() by cleaning looms and replacing empty weft bobbins with full ones learns weaving. loom tender, loom tenter, power loom tenter, weaver's assistant, weaver's filler, weaver's helper, weaver's tenter assists weaver q.v. by putting hair on to shuttle for drawing through warp. ![]() server (hair weaving) assists hair weaver q.v. ![]() who weaves rugs sometimes works on a hand loom, see hand loom weaver cf. weaving a special kind of gold or silver lace or braid called orris. orris spinner, orris weaver (gold and/or silver) a gold and/or silver weaver q.v. loom tender, loom tenter, power loom tenter (i) see tenter (ii) see weaver, power loom. who goes from loom to loom helping other weavers in case of special difficulty when engaged on Northrop looms, brings weft, fills batteries and doffs bobbins, cf. who weaves a narrow web, often having name of tailor inwoven, as an advertisement, intended to be used in making loops for hanging up coats. hanger maker, woven hanger maker a power loom weaver q.v. hair sieve weaver a hair weaver (hand loom or power loom) q.v. gimper, gimp maker, gimp spinner minds a machine making gimp, an ornamental banding, often with a wire or coarse cord running through it places bobbins of yarn and of wire in correct sequence in frame, and guides and attaches yarn and wire to a feed which conducts them into machine controls power-drive of machine sometimes specifically designated, e.g. corder, gold and/or silver a gold and/or silver weaver q.v. minding two, three, or four looms on which braid, and other similar narrow woven fabrics, are woven. who minds a loom on which waste carpets, having no design, are woven, from bits of yam left over on spools, and unfit for use in carpets having a design cf. bit maker (carpets) a power loom weaver q.v. band maker, bant maker minds a narrow, quick-speed loom for weaving band and webbing for processes, cf. ORDER XII.-TEXTILE WORKERS Sub-order 1.-Textile Workers 370.-Weaversīack to List of Occupational Codes alabar loom worker as for weaver. A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921. ![]()
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