Novel Decoration at Edges
A novel form of decoration is seen at the extreme edge of the fancy frill at Fig. 4. This may be produced by what is known as the draw-in method. This effect was formerly produced by the use of additional banks of shuttles in a rise and fall lay, but is now made by using two threads of cabled silk coming from spools, these threads being worked by the harness the same as a warp. They are very lightly delivered by a delicately adjusted return spring arrangement. The threads are operated on a special harness, being passed through the harness eyes outside of all the other warp stock, and then through a dent in the front reed as far away from the other stock as is desirable to form the size of the loop required.
Fig. 3.—Woven Shirred Effect
Fig. 4.—Novel Edge Decoration
The harness used for these threads stands still a given number of picks, and at regular intervals is brought down so that the draw-in thread comes in contact with the shuttle filling, which then passes around it. As the shuttle returns through the open shed, the filling or weft pulls the easily running draw-in thread with it, until it comes in contact with other warp threads, which the filling passes around, and so stops the further progress of the draw-in thread into the shed. The thread at the same time is carried around a wire which works in a dent next inside the one in which the draw-in thread passes. Quite a variety of fancy effects may be produced in this manner. Threads of different materials and colors may be used and drawn across the face of the web at different points, and selvages of a distinctly different color and character to the body of the goods may be made.