=Lingo=, a small iron weight for each harness-cord, 9, 22, 23
=Loom Pickers= are generally made of raw hide; less frequently of sole leather or wood. The picker stick, which is operated by means of cams or arms on the loom, drives the picker, and the latter the shuttle.
=Loop-guide=, a part of the lacing machine, 99
=Mail=, made of metal, forms the centre part of a twine heddle; in the eye of the mail the warp-thread is drawn, 22, 23
=Margin=, plain part between border and selvedge, or centre and border in a damask table-cover, etc.
=Mate Threads=, technical name used in two-ply ingrain carpets; one ground-thread and its corresponding figure-thread, 72-80
=Merino=, originally the wool of the Spanish Merino sheep, and known as some of the finest wool. _Colonial wools_, as Australia, Cape of Good Hope, New Zealand, bear the character of the Merino, derived through introducing and breeding the original stock in those countries.
=Modifications= of the single-lift Jacquard machine, 67
=Mohair=, the fleece of the Angora goat. It is largely used in the manufacture of light-weight dress goods, which are characterized by their lustre. In pile fabrics, as plushes, velvets, astrakhans, etc., of a plain or figured denomination, mohair is often used for the “pile-warp,” whereas the ground or body of the fabric is made of cotton.
=Neck-cord=, the cord combining leash and hook, 9
=Needle=, a part of the Jacquard machine, 9, 10, 14
=Needle-board=, a part of the Jacquard machine, 17
=Outlining in Squares=, methods and rules for, 113-115
=Pattern-cylinder=, a part of the Repeating machine, 94-96
=Perforated Bottom-board=, a part of the Jacquard machine; through this board the neck-cords are passed, combining the hooks to the leash, 12
=Piano Card-stamping Machine=, operated by belt power, 91
=Pick=, one filling thread; one passage of the shuttle through the shed.
=Pile Fabrics= can have the pile produced either by the warp or the filling. If the pile has to be produced by the warp, a certain number of warp-threads are raised on certain picks over wires. These elevated threads are interwoven in the pick preceding the interweaving of the wire, and also in the pick following it, with a filling-thread to the ground cloth. After a certain number of wires have been inserted, the first interwoven wire is drawn out of the fabric to be used over, which operation is repeated in rotation with every wire. We find terry and velvet piles. If the pile is produced by the filling, some or all filling-threads must float in certain places to allow the thread to be cut at this place, or its fibres to be raised during the process of finishing the fabric, 53, 118