ply-frames

Updated: May 5, 2025

But as they passed from one resounding room to the other from the dull throb of the carding-room, the groan of the ply-frames, the long steady pound of the slashers, back to the angry shriek of the fierce unappeasable looms the light faded from her eyes and she looked merely bewildered and stunned.

Edith Wharton - The Fruit of the Tree

It was not only the sense of power that thrilled him he felt a beauty in the ordered activity of the whole intricate organism, in the rhythm of dancing bobbins and revolving cards, the swift continuous outpour of doublers and ribbon-laps, the steady ripple of the long ply-frames, the terrible gnashing play of the looms all these varying subordinate motions, gathered up into the throb of the great engines which fed the giant's arteries, and were in turn ruled by the invisible action of quick thought and obedient hands, always produced in Amherst a responsive rush of life.

Edith Wharton - The Fruit of the Tree