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Shuttle-less looms are useful in fulfilling the rising demand for woven products. Apart from the high speed, the shuttle-less looms have advantages like less picking energy, more colour weft insertion, higher design capability, wider width etc. In this article, S Sundaresan, V Ramesh Babu, and Arunraj Arumugam review techno-economics of shuttle-less looms.

The art of textile making began to develop in the Stone Age. The first textile fabric was probably a nonwoven crude felt, made by compressing loose clumps of fleece from wild sheep. The second stage was invention of yarn which was extracted from various barks of various plants in accordance to their availability.