Loom • A machine for producing fabric by weaving.

Hand looms Power looms

Air jetRapier

Shuttle less loomsShuttle looms

Water jet

Projectile

Hand looms

• Oldest and most conventional method of weaving

• Specialized and value added fabric

• Slow speed

• Not fit for commercial manufacturing

Plain Weave

• The simplest of all weave interlacings, in which the odd warp threads operate over one and under one weft thread throughout the fabric and the even warp threads reverse this order to under one, over one throughout.