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Tightening our Kuiper belt
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OUT THERE
From the edge of the solar system come hints of a disrupted youth.
More and more often, some new astronomical discovery is thrusting Pluto and its home, the Kuiper Belt, into the public eye. Most of the attention focuses on Pluto's status as one of our solar system's major planets. Should it retain that status, even though astronomers know Pluto really is just a ball of ice and rock, smaller than our Moon?
A few months ago the flames were fanned again, when Michael E. Brown and Chadwick A. Trujillo, both astronomers at Caltech, announced the discovery of a large new Kuiper Belt ...
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Shuttleless loom imports increase
Magazine article from: Asian Textile Business
; ...progress in the development of shuttleless looms, but Chinese looms can weave only a limited variety of...said to be still unstable. Chinese loom builders have been endeavoring to develop air-jet looms, as this machine can weave denim and...
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UK mills buy looms but still big on oldies. (Textile technology supplement)
Magazine article from: Daily News Record
; ...conventional looms. "In shuttle looms, the spinner spins the...shuttle. In a rapier loom, the bobbin must go onto...higher speeds of the rapier looms rough up the yarn...often happened on the old looms. "The Dornier loom is the most superior loom...
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Loom maker enables art of hand weaving.
Newspaper article from: Record (Stockton, CA)
; ...takes to make handmade, hardwood looms. Loom manufacturing is broken into two...also makes a portable studio floor loom and loom accessories that include benches...shuttles. More than 6,200 Gilmore looms have been made. Of those, about...
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Air-jet looms as top choice for Japan weavers. (Weaving machinery)
Magazine article from: Daily News Record
; Air-Jet Loom Looms as Top Choice For Japan...popularization of air-jet looms in this country, Japanese...that the air-jet loom is acquiring increased...5 to 1.9 shuttle looms, depending on reed...reasons why the air-jet loom is expected to see...
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Pottery looms.
Magazine article from: School Arts
; ...holes on each side of the loom. If you want to hang the loom, be sure to punch two holes at the top. Move the looms to a storage area for...you wish to glaze the looms, be careful that you...s time to warp the loom. Use waxed linen for...
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Shuttleless looms in place up 3.7 percent for Jan.-Sept. (Weaving machinery)
Magazine article from: Daily News Record
; ...were 60,989 shuttleless looms in place as of January 3...keeping with fewer single cam looms, the number of loom hours operated by that model...operated by single shuttle cam looms was 378,288. In the shuttleless loom category, models in place...
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Double-width looms usher in change for Harris Tweed making.
Magazine article from: Daily News Record
; ...on the double-width loom. He said weavers already using the new looms are earning less than...with the single-width loom. Some weavers, especially...training weavers on the new loom. MacKenzie said the double-width looms delivered last fall are...
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Cardboard loom weaving.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities
; ...cardboard looms. The looms are cheap, easy to make...in and out of the paper loom, and have seen the various...students prepare their looms by following a paper guide...Ready-made cardboard looms are also available in...a color to warp their loom. I show them how to tape...
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A LIFE THAT LOOMS LARGE OVER EVERYONE
Newspaper article from: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
; ...weaving and has become a loom collector. The looms in her home represent...her weavings with the looms she has. "I am money poor, but loom rich," Hart said...the countermarch draw loom in the family room, which has two looms to make a more complex...
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Fruit of the Loom freed by Farley for 'branded consumer goods.' (William Farley)
Magazine article from: Daily News Record
; Fruit of the Loom Freed by Farley For 'Branded Consumer Goods' NEW YORK (FNS) -- Fruit of the Loom, once buried in a conglomerate that had...purchased Northwest, brought Fruit of the Loom public on March 3 at $9 a share. The...
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