Ira Draper
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Title
Ira Draper
Subject
Draper, Ira; Looms--History; Draper Corporation; Hopedale (Mass.); Draper family; Textile industry--Massachusetts--Hopedale
Description
A photograph of a portrait painting of Ira Draper from the book Five Generations of Loom Builders: A History of the Draper Corporation by William H. Chase. In 1816 Ira Draper patented the self-acting loom temple. Loom temples kept the cloth straight on the loom, but they constantly had to be readjusted by the operators. Draper's self-acting loom temples did not need to be readjusted, thereby greatly increasing productivity. This innovation eventually became the first and most successful product of the Hopedale Community, and was the foundation of the Draper Corporation.
Source
Image is from page xii of Five Generations of Loom Builders: A History of the Draper Corporation
Publisher
C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/
Date
1951
Relation
Is part of the Bancroft Memorial Library Local History Collection, Hopedale, Massachusetts. http://www.hopedale-ma.gov/Public_Documents/HopedaleMA_Library/index
Format
image/jpg
Language
en-US
Type
Image
Files
Collection
Citation
“Ira Draper,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 22, 2013, http://digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/734.
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