- The modern shuttleless looms not only produce faster, but also the cloth produced by these looms possess much better quality as compared to conventional looms. The main problem faced by the decentralized weaver is that imported shuttleless looms are very expensive. In order to overcome this disadvantage to a decentralized sectoer SITRA has developed a low cost rapier shuttleless loom with a likely price tag of around Rs. 3.5 lakhs. The major advantages of this loom as compared to ordinary loom are:
- The speed of the machine can be increased by 25%.
- When the four colour weft is used, the speed increase will be more than 40% compared to drop box loom.
- Weaving defects in fabric will be considerably reduced.
- Since rapier machine feed weft yarn from cone, the process of pirn winding is eliminated.
- 10 to 15% increase in efficiency is possible when compared to ordinary power looms.
- Higher work assignment is possible.
- Because of low cost, power loom units can afford to install this machine