drawing frame

noun

Textiles.

a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of drawing frame¹

First recorded in 1825–35

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The team gave kids a sheet of paper with just a few basic elements printed on it: some dots here, squiggles there and a rectangle that suggested a drawing frame.

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In addition, a judge checked whether the children chose to incorporate a small shape just outside what looked like a rectangular drawing frame.

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The Howard & Bullough Patent Electric Stop Motion Drawing Frame has proved one of the most successful machines ever invented, and there are large numbers of deliveries at work in every Cotton Spinning country.

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It was also named the throstle, from the fact that it gave a humming or singing sound while at work; but it is commonly known as the drawing frame.

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As the yarns still need to be twisted, they are passed through a roving frame similar to a drawing frame.

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drawing chisel drawing-in

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