About the time Henry Ford built his first car, the quadricycle, in 1896, eccentric Japanese inventor Sakichi Toyoda, 29, invented his first--weaving loom.

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Some of the materials on display are objects collected by Livingstone himself, now owned by NMS, such as a weaving loom and artefacts from Africa.

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The proposed Project will build upon the previous work by strengthening the pit-loom weaving industry of BC 33.

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Like all the women of her family, Aunt Cayita, as she is now called, learned the art of loom weaving.

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Preserved primarily in Jiangsu province in eastern China, the method comprises more than a hundred procedures, including manufacturing looms, drafting patterns, the creation of jacquard cards for programming weaving patterns, dressing the loom and the many stages of weaving itself.

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Elvira's mother, who is sitting in the shade of her stall, is weaving on a small hand loom.

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Weaving is done manually by a lissier, or weaver, on a loom positioned horizontally, working on the reverse side of the tapestry, and using yarns that are hand-dyed in house.

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Kiichiro Toyoda's father Sakichi Toyoda invented the automatic loom in a backyard shed, mainly because he wanted to help his mother, who often was weaving in their home.

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