Throw shuttle

Also: hand shuttle, throw-shuttle loom

With a throw shuttle the weaver launches the shuttle through the shed with one hand and catches it with the other, then returns it the same way. The width of the cloth is limited by how far the weaver can reach, so the older, narrow looms made cloth only a little wider than the span of two arms. A throw-shuttle loom is slow, but it gives the weaver close control, and many fine and heavily patterned sarees are still woven on one, especially where several shuttles carry different threads for a single motif.

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