Power Loom

The power loom is a mechanized loom that weaves cloth by machine power rather than by hand, using cams, gears, levers and pulleys to interlace warp and weft threads in the motions a hand weaver once performed alone. Edmund Cartwright patented an early power loom in 1785, and although his first machines were crude, later improvements made power looms reliable enough to spread across textile mills in Europe and North America during the early nineteenth century, driving the shift from home handweaving to factory based cloth production during the Industrial Revolution. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/