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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 609471, member: 8267&quot;]A separate bobbin, or &quot;pirn&quot;, with the thread wound onto it, fit into the shuttle and was held in place by the metal spring. The end of the thread went through the little porcelain lined hole on the side. The shuttle was used to insert the weft through the warp on the loom. (The warp are the horizontal threads stretched on the loom. Heddles are used to separate and raise groups of warp threads to create the &quot;shed&quot;.) The shuttle could be pushed through the warp shed by hand, but for production weaving there was a mechanical system to slap the shuttle through. It would bang into a stop at each end of the pass, hence the protective metal ends. Also known as a &quot;flying shuttle&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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