Textile Job Weavers

   Fabric weaving is one of the primitive and ancient textile art and craft. In this process placing two sets of fiber threads or yarn of the loom and turning them into cloth. Depending upon the requirement the cloth can be plain or it can be woven in decorative or artistic designs.India is famous predominantly for silk and cotton weaving. Silk weaving is common in most parts of the country like in banaras, murshidabad, mysore, assam, gujarat and surat etc. popular products like sari is woven using silk and cotton. Himroo and mushroo fabrics of Hyderabad are splendid examples of indian woven fabric.

   In the past, fabric weaving was done on dobby looms and the Jacquard harness adaptation and it was reserved for more complex patterns. With rapidly changing technology majority of commercial fabrics nowadays are woven on computer-controlled Jacquard looms. 

Jacquard loom

    Before the Industrial Revolution, weaving remained a manual craft, usually undertaken part-time by family craftspeople. Looms might be broad or narrow; broad looms were those too wide for the weaver to pass the shuttle through the shed, so that the weaver needed an assistant. This ceased to be necessary after John Kay invented the flying shuttle in 1733, which also sped up the process of weaving.

    

The general process of fabric weaving involves interlacing of two sets of threads at right angles to each other, called the warp and the weft. The warp is held taut and in parallel order by means of a loom. The loom is dressed with the warp threads passing through heddles on two or more harnesses. The warp threads are moved up or down by the harnesses creating a space called the shed. Now weft thread is wound onto spools called bobbins. 

  The bobbins are placed in a shuttle which carries the weft thread through the shed. This sequence of raising and lowering of warp threads creates weave structures from the simplest plain weave. It can range from simple to complex computer-generated interlacing.Handweaving and hand spinning is a popular craft which are forms of fabric weaving. Wooden looms are used by weavers to create rugs, fabrics, and tapestries.There are three basic types of weaving by which the majority of woven products are formed namely satin weaves, twill weaves and plain weaves.

   Weaving is a method of fabric production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. The other methods are knitting, lace making, felting, and braiding or plaiting. The method in which these threads are inter woven affects the characteristics of the cloth.Cloth is usually woven on a loom, a device that holds the warp threads in place while filling threads are woven through them. 

   A fabric band which meets this definition of cloth can also be made using other methods, including tablet weaving, back-strap, or other techniques without loomsThe way the warp and filling threads interlace with each other is called the weave. The majority of woven products are created with one of three basic weaves: plain weave, satin weave, or twill.Woven cloth can be plain , or can be woven in decorative or artistic designs.