Loom

A loom is a machine for weaving thread or yarn into textiles. Looms can range from very small hand-held frames, to large free-standing hand looms, to huge automatic mechanical devices.

The invention of the power loom by Edmund Cartwright was very important in the Industrial Revolution.

A large, traditional loom from Mexico.

An automated, industrial loom.

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  Model of Navajo Loom, late 19th century, Brooklyn Museum.jpg
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  An early nineteenth century Japanese loom with several heddles, which the weaver controls with her foot
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  A Jakaltek Maya brocades a hair sash on a back strap loom.
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  Hand loom at Hjerl Hede, Denmark, showing grayish warp threads (back) and cloth woven with red filling yarn (front)
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  Oaxacan artisan Alberto Sanchez Martinez at loom
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  Hand loom at the Korkosz Croft in Czarna Góra, Poland, 19th century
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  A loom in an Old Believer homestead in Slutiški, Latvia
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  Handloom from India
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  Weaver from India showing handloom during an exhibition