Knowing textile accessories, we have to understand what a textile machine is, and to understand the textile machine, we have to understand its history. Looking back at its history, we have to know what textile machines are in ancient times.
Pedal loom
The pedal loom is a general term for a textile machine with a pedal lift opening device. The earliest appearance of the pedal loom, there is still no reliable historical description. According to the history book, the number of cloths given by the princes in the Warring States period is 100 times higher than that in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the historical materials such as the Chinese painting stone carved in the past few places, which are unearthed in various places, speculate that the appearance of the pedal loom can be It dates back to the Warring States Period. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Yellow River Basin and the vast areas of the Yangtze River Basin have been widely used. The use of the foot pedal to raise the opening of the loom is a major invention in the history of the loom. It frees the hands of the weaver from the lifting movement to specialize in picking and beating, which greatly increases productivity. In the case of plain weaves, it is 20 to 60 times higher than the original weaving machine, and weaving 0.3 to 1 meter per person per hour.
