What is "ORI"?
“ORI (Woven Fabrics)” is any textiles formed by weaving a warp and a weft. When expressing complicated patters and pictures on a woven fabric, printing that uses a silk screen that makes low-cost mass production possible is employed in many cases. But the products supplied by ORI TOKYO are made by the use of the Jacquard loom. With the Jacquard loom, textiles are weaved in a complicated way using many colored threads.
The Jacquard loom is an automatic loom invented by a French inventor, Joseph Marie Jacquad. With this loom, a needle that moves upward and downward according to whether or not there are perforations made in a card board and a shaft that moves the warp act inter-connectedly. The warp alone is raised up according to the instructions as shown by the perforations and passed through the weft so that a pattern will be weaved as designed in the card. In modern days, the Jaquard loom has become an electronic Jaquaard loom, with the card board having been replaced with a computer acting as a controller.
The Jacquard loom is an automatic loom invented by a French inventor, Joseph Marie Jacquad. With this loom, a needle that moves upward and downward according to whether or not there are perforations made in a card board and a shaft that moves the warp act inter-connectedly. The warp alone is raised up according to the instructions as shown by the perforations and passed through the weft so that a pattern will be weaved as designed in the card. In modern days, the Jaquard loom has become an electronic Jaquaard loom, with the card board having been replaced with a computer acting as a controller.
The Jacquard loom is now available in various types, such as the shuttle type and the air jet type. But this product is a type that uses a rapier loom for the weaving purpose. The rapier loom is a component that is called a rapier in the shape of a rod that weaves a thread by repeating weft insertion operations by grabbing the weft and passing it between the warp. In comparison with latest high-speed looms, the rapier loom is capable of weaving a textile retaining a texture, while allowing the weaving width to be set freely and making a large number of colored threads usable on the loom, compared with the shuttle type.