Abstract: A weaving tool for weaving strings in a string bed of a tennis racket is disclosed. The weaving tool has one or more connection bars extending horizontally. Pivotably connected to the connection bars are a plurality of guide bars. The guide bars extend into the string bed of the racket prior to weaving cross strings. The guide bars have perpendicular string channels for receiving the strings in the string bed. The connection bar is moved to the side which moves the strings into an alternating up and down position and allow for a straight space for a cross string to pass through. There are channels in the guide bars which allow a cross string to pass through. There are also string retention members which hold the cross string against the guide bars.

Abstract: A set of racket cross-string guides which are pre-woven over a string guide holder in the same pattern used for inserting the racket cross-strings.

Abstract: A device comprising: (a) housing structure; (b) a plurality of pegs in communication with the housing structure; wherein at least a portion of the plurality of pegs extend at an angle relative to a plane so that the extends between at least a portion of the plurality of pegs, and wherein the angle of the plurality of pegs are in different directions so that the at least a portion of the plurality of pegs are movable from a first side of the plane to the second side of the plane.

Abstract: The invention disclosed, is a felting loom system and method, for producing felted woven, fibre art textile shapes. The handcrafting apparatus kit comprises, multi-shaped and sized, interlocking loom blocks and method auxiliary tools. Employed individually, or as assembled loom frameworks, the loom blocks, provide supportive structural foundations, to carry out the inventive method's, multi-functional procedures. Utilized conjointly, the texturized surfaces of the loom block structures and the roller tool components, further generate friction, for the method's practical processing requirements. The variety of loom block construction, configurations and utility functional purposes, enables creative flexibility for fibre artisans to produce wide ranges of felted textile shapes, sizes and constructed fibre art compositions.

Abstract: A dual mode LCD device includes first and second substrates facing each other; a first electrode on an inner surface of the first substrate and having a plate shape; a first insulating layer on the first electrode; a second electrode and a third electrode on the first insulating layer, being spaced apart from each other and extending along a first direction; a fourth electrode on an inner surface of the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates and including chiral dopants, wherein liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are stably arranged in a first twist state and a second twist state, wherein the first and second twist states are used for a memory mode and the second twist state and a vertical alignment state are used for a dynamic mode.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of using a bead weaving device for assisting manufacturing by jewelry makers and facilitating the positioning, stringing, cross-weaving, peyote chain maille, and accurate sizing for but not limited to necklaces, bracelets, and other hand woven beaded products. The bead weaving device includes the following components: an inclined sizing plate optionally including an imperial-measure graduated scale and/or a metric-measure graduated scale, a brass toggle half securer, a stabilizer, a support base and removably couplable peyote block attachment and a support arm. The support base of the device is adapted for use on the lap of a user or on the surface of a substrate such as a table.

Abstract: Two layered beads (B) arranged between two neighboring warps (tx-1) and (tx) are woven by inserting a weft (yx) through center holes (2) of the beads in (B) in a forward direction or in a backward direction and turning the weft (yx), around one of the warps (t). A two layered beaded fabric is obtained by repeating the movements of the weft (yx). A three layered beaded fabric can be obtained in the same manner as the two layered beaded fabric.

Abstract: An apparatus for assisting manufacturing by jewelry makers and facilitating the positioning, stringing, cross-weaving, peyote chain maille, and accurate sizing for but not limited to necklaces, bracelets, and other hand woven beaded products. The present bead weaving device disclosed herein comprises the following components: an inclined sizing plate optionally including an imperial-measure graduated scale and/or a metric-measure graduated scale, a brass toggle half securer, a stabilizer, a support base and removably couplable peyote block attachment and a support arm. The support base of the Beadin' Butler may be adapted for use on the lap of a user or on the surface of a substrate such as a table. A method of using the bead weaving device is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: A collapsible loom, comprising a folding loom, a removable weaving assembly, including a warp beam (26) with its warps, harness shafts (38), a reed (52), and a cloth beam (19) with its cloth, wherein the removable weaving assembly, which is detachable and transferable to another loom, further includes bars (30) confined in a bar cassette (31), transfer bars (37), tying members (32) for treadles (15), and a number of harness shafts (38) actuated by the treadles (15).

Abstract: A loom and method of weaving, the loom having a frame and a member rotatably mounted on the frame. The rotatable member including a chin bar and a heddle. The loom is mountable on an operator's shoulders so that the operator may apply a force to the chin bar of the rotatable member, moving the heddle. Also a tandem loom having a frame supporting two rotatable members, for manipulating the two heddles by multiple operators.

Abstract: A loom that includes a first elongated beam having upper and lower surfaces; a second elongated beam having upper and lower surfaces parallel to and spaced from the first beam; a first transverse roller having a first longitudinal axis rotatably mounted on and extending between the first and second beams; a second transverse roller having a second longitudinal axis parallel to and spaced from the first transverse roller rotatably mounted on and extending between the first and second beams; each transverse roller having a peripheral surface formed with a plurality of equally sized and spaced annular grooves, each groove lying in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of its associated roller; and a disk-shaped thumb wheel having a textured peripheral edge surface fixed to each roller with a center aligned with the longitudinal axis of the roller.

Abstract: A process for weaving that can be implemented using just the hands as the loom and shuttle, a weaving material such as yarn, an instrument for cutting like nail clippers or a small pair of scissors, and an object for intermissions in the process such as a paper clip. The weaving process is simplified to the most basic concepts of weaving that can be enjoyed by any age group, such as, but not limited to, from five-year-old children to adults. The absence of barriers like cumbersome weaving looms permits the process to be practiced in a multitude of settings.

Abstract: A method of weaving Braille and/or the resulting woven Braille textile may assist sighted persons in determining the woven Braille cells by differentiating the colors of each number 1 through number 6 Braille cell warp thread. A method of weaving Braille and/or the resulting woven Braille textile may assist blind and visually impaired persons in determining the woven Braille cells or determining the reading content weft threads from filler weft threads by differentiating the texture of the non-Braille cell warp threads from the texture(s) of the Braille cell warp threads.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method of and loom for teaching Braille by weaving with a loom, wherein the levers to move the harnesses are shaped and spaced like the levers on a Perkins Brailler (a Braille typewriter).

Abstract: Portable looming templates for creating fabric from yarn. Square templates with a series of indentations around the perimeters. The templates are divided into halves and held together with hinges. The looms have location holes to which are attached to a swinging arm. The arm has a location hole and a slot. They are held to the loom with suitable fasteners. When required the arm swings free to allow the halves of each loom to fold together releasing the fabric.

Abstract: A bead-weaving system including a multiplicity of beads for spacing apart a multiplicity of warp threads, wherein the beads are pierced by a hole in their diameter and threaded on a weft thread by a needle and positioned between each warp thread, the needle having a body including an end portion having an eye for passage of a weft thread and another end portion including a bead holder extending along the another end portion to hold the beads in selected positions along the another end portion and a point.

Abstract: A heddle includes a plurality of passages spaced from each other in a first direction for guiding warps, respectively, and a retainer provided in each of the passages for retaining a corresponding warp. Each of the guide passages is defined between a first surface and a second surface. The retainer includes an upper projection extending between the first surface and the second surface, and a lower projection extending between the first surface and the second surface. The upper projection and the lower projection define a warp retaining space which is accessible from the guide passage via a clearance.

Abstract: A device for producing shedding motion in a loom includes two assembled guides disposed parallel in the loom. Each of the guides includes a shaft to which a plurality of blocks are mounted. The blocks not only cross feed yarn in the loom but transfer the yarn from the block to block during rotation of the shafts to produce a shedding motion for weaving multi-shaft woven fabric.

Abstract: The invention discloses a weaving device, which includes (a) a support base adapted to support a number of weaving needles in spaced substantially parallel relationship; (b) two groups of weaving needles, each needle having a longitudinal axis and being adapted to be supported removably at one end by the support base, each needle further having a needle body, a free projecting tip at one end of the needle body and, remote therefrom, attachment means for attachment of a warp thread; and (c) moving means adapted for causing moving the tips of needles.

Abstract: A control system for a multi-harness loom comprising drive means for each harness and electronic control means for operating the drive means to move each harness for creation of a shed pattern, the electronic control means being manually operable to sequentially operate the drive means in a predetermined manner to produce a preselected series of shed patterns.

Abstract: A hand weaving loom comprising a frame provided with a loom beam and a breast beam between which the warp threads are stretched in operation, the warp threads being guided between the loom beam and the breast beam along guide members which are movable in a direction transverse of the warp threads away from and towards one another with the aid of a driving mechanism to be actuated by hand or foot, whereby said two beams are relatively displaceable in a direction towards and away from one another with the aid of the driving mechanism in a manner such that, when the guide members are moved away from one another, the beams move towards one another, whereas the beams are spaced apart by the maximum distance when the warp threads are located at least substantially in the same plane.

Abstract: A shedding device for a loom, having a plurality of thread separator discs, inner abutments on one side of each disc, outer abutments on a face of the disc, subtending a predetermined arc, on which a thread may be raised, a central opening through the disc, a spring extending into the opening, grooves on the disc for receiving the inner and outer abutments of the next disc, a plurality of openings formed through the disc and spokes defined by the openings at spaced apart locations.

Abstract: A shedding mechanism for a foot treadled hand loom is disclosed. The mechanism insures ease of operation and uniform shed formation. Harness motion is always parallel to the original harness position, and each harness moves further than the one in front of it to cause all warp threads to open to the same angle at the front of the loom.

Abstract: A lever is pivotally connected to the upper part of a loom frame on a horizontal axis and carries a roller at one end that normally is held by the lever in a predetermined central position and that supports an upper cable that carries a pulley at each end. A lever cable hangs from the other end of the lever and supports a vertically movable floating member. An intermediate cable hangs from each pulley and the four ends of these two cables support four vertically movable harnesses. With a four harness loom, treadles below the harnesses are connected by cables to the harnesses and the floater in such a way that no matter which treadle is depressed the height of the shed will always remain the same.

Abstract: A portable table loom of compact and firm construction in which a simplified harness system is provided which includes transverse harness bars mounted in the system in pre-selected positions with the assurance that they will remain in such positions during the weaving process as well as when repeatedly moving the loom during an extended weaving time.

Abstract: A hand loom of improved and simplified construction in which the course of travel of the warp threads during the weaving operation is similar to conventional looms. However, the loom of the present invention is provided with a beater which is mounted for horizontal reciprocation so that the beater is maintained parallel and square with the warp threads at all times during such reciprocal movement. The beater is mounted directly adjacent the front harness at a point proximate the greatest opening of the shed.The present loom also has a plurality of harnesses of novel construction, with each of the harnesses being actuated by its own individual lifting means. Thus, a lifting lever, having an elongated arm and an upstanding leg, is positioned beneath each harness and is adapted to raise a selected harness when the outer end of the lever arm is depressed by the operator.

Abstract: A hand loom for making woven fabric is disclosed. The loom includes a frame for supporting warp threading. Warp alignment structure on the frame maintains relative alignment of each thread of the warp. A detachable heddle spindle assembly mounted to the frame includes a rotatably mounted heddle spindle transversely adjacent the warp threading. A first set of slideably positionable heddle fingers is removably installed in a locking slot formed axially on the spindle and the fingers thereof are adapted, aligned and spaced to lift predetermined ones of the warp threading as the spindle is rotated. A second set of heddle fingers is removably installed in a second locking slot axially on the spindle and radially displaced from the first set, the fingers of the second set being adapted, aligned and spaced to lift others of the warp threads.

Abstract: A horizontal hand loom supported on brackets, tables, or the like, comprising a basic frame provided with warp beam, cloth beam, support frame, and harnesses located on either side of the support frame, said harnesses upwardly being hingedly connected to a manually pivotable means mounted on the support frame, and downwardly connected to at least one vertically pivotable rocker arm attached to a horizontal shaft in the lower portion of the support frame. The harnesses have the shape of rectangular or quadratic frames which inside their upper and lower horizontal frame portions removably carry a rigid bar or wire on which are threaded the permanent eyelets of the heddle strings.

Abstract: A versatile hand operated loom having features making it uniquely suited for utilization in occupational therapy for hospitalized or institutionalized persons. Simplified hand loom assembly dispensing with the conventional shedding harness enables utilization of simplified procedures in dressing and operating the loom, including weaving of the fabric, removal, and setting up the subsequent weaving operation for the same or a different pattern.

Abstract: A simple backstrap type loom consisting of a rigid heddle, two identical end boards, that will be called the warp board and the woven web board, and four flexible laces. The boards hold the warp and finished weaving under tension, when tied with the flexible laces to stationary objects, and the rigid heddle is then used to make the shed in the warp.

Abstract: A device for spreading lengths of warp thread mounted on a weaving frame to allow lengths of weft thread to be woven therethrough. The device includes an elongated bar member rotatably mounted to the weaving frame for passage underneath the lengths of warp thread. A plurality of transverse slots are provided through the bar member for selectively allowing certain ones of the lengths of warp thread to be received therein. Certain of the plurality of slots are substantially 180.degree. opposed from other ones of the plurality of slots so that certain ones of the lengths of warp thread will be received in certain ones of the plurality of slots while other ones of the lengths of warp thread are held substantially on the outer circumference of the bar member to create a shed between certain ones of the lengths of warp thread to allow lengths of weft thread to be easily woven therethrough. When the bar member is rotated substantially 180.degree.