Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Weaving, by Hand and Power Looms; Intended as a Text Book for Manufacturers by Hand and Power Looms: And Power Loom Engineers; And Especially Designed to Forward the Extension of Machinery to All Kinds of Plain Weaving; With Numerous Illustrative Engravings of the Machinery and Implements as They Should Be Used in Weaving, According to the Acknowledged P The primitive state of Weaving with Heddles in India representation of the Indian Loom - Note on Indian Weaving. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.