METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WEAVING

摘要

A method of weaving tubular items such as a sleeved garment (10), using a weft yarn carrier such as a shuttle (not shown) which is passed backwards and forwards across the warp yarn bed (1) of a weaving loom. The method comprises detecting slack in the dispensed weft yarn, said slack being due to weft yarn which, although dispensed by the shuttle, is not interwoven with those warp yarns which are beyond the selvedge of the area being woven. The slack yarn is retracted back into the shuttle and is stored in the shuttle for later re-dispensing.