Abstract: A textile backing with a decorative weft is manufactured by raising at least one bonding needle across the warp yarn lap of the textile backing, the bonding needle being used to form a locking mesh having a number of loops; retracting the needles under the textile backing; inserting a decorative weft at right angles to the warp yarns; simultaneously raising and shifting the needles and shifting the locking mesh yam in a circular arc movement using binding guides in order to twill the path of the bonding needle, thereby forming a locking mesh for retaining the decorative weft; displacing the binding guides in translation at a top dead center position for flattening the decorative weft yam against the needle; lowering the bonding needles, drawing the mesh-forming yarn, and creating a loop of locking mesh yarn which encloses the decorative weft; and re-shifting the guides in translation at bottom dead center position in preparation for a new cycle.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing fringed braid comprising a reciprocable weft guide for meshing weft yarn with warp to form a braid with projecting loops of the yarn. A sliver guide is reciprocable to form loops of fringe sliver. One guide is displaceable from one side to the opposite side of the other guide whereby the yarn and sliver loops are formed interlooped. Sliver loop halves are interconnected by warp threads. A similar apparatus has an additional weft yarn guide, two braids being simultaneously produced, with projecting yarn loops of each being interlooped with loops of a single sliver.