Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by material processed]
7. textile working equipment

Narrower term/s

• fulling mills [NP]
• bobbins[+]
  • knitting bobbins
  • sewing bobbins
• crochet hooks
• latch hooks
• lace pillows
• tjantings
• bobbin winders
• heddles [NP]
• raddles
• shaft sticks
• spinning jennies
• looms (textile tools)[+]
  • broad looms (textile manufacturing tools)
  • cam looms
  • carpet looms
  • counter-balance looms
  • counter-march looms
  • handlooms [+]
    • bead looms
    • bow looms
    • inkle looms
    • frame looms
    • table looms
    • warp-weighted looms
    • treadle looms
    • ground looms
    • belt looms
    • draw looms
    • tablet looms
  • backstrap looms
  • jacquard looms
  • leno looms
  • swivel looms
  • powerlooms
  • loom components [NP] [+]
    • battens (loom components)
    • heddles
    • loomblocks
    • shed sticks
    • loom weights
    • heddle pulleys
    • heddle rods
    • brakes (loom equipment)
    • reeds (loom components)
    • drawing-in machines
    • jacquard cards [NP]
    • tying-in machines
    • warp beams
    • warp dressers
    • warping bars
    • weaver's benches [NP]
    • weaving battens
    • temples (loom components)
    • weaving shuttles [NP]
  • dobby looms
  • jack looms
  • rigid heddle looms
  • pile fabric looms
  • shuttleless looms [+]
    • rapier looms
    • water-jet looms
  • tape looms
• shuttles (textile fabricating tools)[+]
  • boat shuttles
  • stick shuttles
  • weaving shuttles
  • tatting shuttles
• loom weights [NP]
• knitting sheaths [NP]
• heddle pulleys [NP]
• cotton gins [NP]
• distaffs
• whorls (spindle flywheels)
• heddle rods [NP]
• beaters (textile working equipment) [NP]
• stretchers (weaving tool)
• cloth beams
• bale breakers
• button breakers
• bobbin creels
• condensers (textile fabricating tool)[+]
  • cotton condensers
  • goulding condensers
  • tape condensers
• card grinders
• carding benches
• cloth presses
• cloth stretchers
• drawing frames
• dyeing kettles
• gill boxes
• embossing calenders
• fabric testers[+]
  • burst testers
  • crimp testers
  • fadeometers
  • fiber fineness testers
  • fire resistance testers
  • linen provers
  • nep testers
  • scorch testers
  • twist testers
  • shrinkage testers
  • washfastness testers
  • sliver testers
  • tear testers
  • tintometers
• fiber pickers
• flax breakers
• fulling vats
• jacquard cards
• hand cards
• hand wheels [NP]
• harbicks
• hat molds [NP]
• knitting needle gauges [NP]
• knotters
• lacemaker's cushions [NP]
• linen smoothers
• pacific converters
• napping gigs
• net gauges [NP]
• netting needles [NP]
• reed hooks
• roving frames
• scouring bowls
• scouring trains
• twisters (textile fabrication equipment)
• twisting frames
• serving mallets
• slashers
• weaver's benches
• weaving battens [NP]
• temples (loom components) [NP]
• weaving tablets (textile fabricating equipment)
• slubbing billies
• slubbing frames
• yarn winders[+]
  • niddy-noddies
  • swifts [+]
    • umbrella swifts
  • ballers
  • cone winders
  • clock reels
  • quillers
  • wrap reels
  • yarn reels
  • spoolers
• spinnerets
• spinning frames[+]
  • ring frames
• spinning jacks
• godet wheels
• stuffer boxes
• teasel crosses
• tenter frames
• tenterhooks
• textile combs[+]
  • hatchels
  • carding combs
  • hand combs
  • ripples (textile equipment)
  • weaving combs
• textile dryers[+]
  • loop dryers
• textile dyeing vats
• textile machines[+]
  • knitting machines
  • carding machines [NP]
  • backfilling machines
  • batt making machines
  • braiding machines
  • bulking machines
  • burling machines
  • beetle machines
  • bleaching machines
  • blending machines [+]
    • feeder blenders
    • sandwich blenders
  • bonding machines
  • crabbing machines
  • card punching machines
  • chinchilla machines
  • drawing-in machines [NP]
  • decating machines
  • garnett machines
  • gigging machines
  • felting machines
  • flocking machines
  • fulling machines
  • heat setting machines
  • mercerizing machines
  • looping machines
  • pad machines
  • ropemaking machines
  • pinking machines
  • pleating machines
  • tufting machines
  • tying-in machines [NP]
  • shrinking machines
  • simplex machines
  • stuffing machines [+]
    • pillow machines
  • sueding machines
  • textile brushing machines
  • coating machines
  • crimping machines
  • folding machines
  • shearing machines
  • stretching machines
  • texturing machines
  • throwing machines
• thread counters
• throstle frames
• [temporary alphabetical list: textile fabricating tools and equipment][+]
  • beamers
  • braiders
  • braiding cones
  • burr removers
  • cloth straighteners
  • dyeing machines
  • crocheting machines
  • felting rollers
  • flax holders
  • float cutting machines
  • lace bobbins
  • lace frames
  • lace globes
  • lace looms
  • lace wheels
  • loom boxes
  • package changing machines
  • perlock machines
  • needlepoint looms
  • reel dryers
  • ropemaking spindles
  • waste machines
  • weaving bobbins
  • wool fingers
  • yarn dryers
  • textile making needles
  • rub-apron condensers
  • rub-roll condensers
• forked turning rods
• retting crates
• flax combs
• flax tongs

Anotations

Scope note:

General term for the class of tools, equipment, and supplies used to facilitate either the processing of natural fibers into thread and yarn or the processing of thread and yarn into finished textile products. Processes encapsulating this class of tools include spinning, weaving, knitting, knotting, twining, and finishing.