Editing Power loom (section)

===Decline and reinvention===
Originally, power looms used a [[Shuttle (weaving)|shuttle]] to throw the weft across, but in 1927 the faster and more efficient shuttleless loom came into use. [[Sulzer Brothers]], a Swiss company had the exclusive rights to shuttleless looms in 1942, and licensed the American production to Warner & Swasey. Draper licensed the slower rapier loom. Today, advances in technology have produced a variety of looms designed to maximise production for specific types of material. The most common of these are [[Sulzer (manufacturer)|Sulzer]] [[shuttleless loom|shuttleless weaving machines]], [[rapier looms]], [[air-jet loom]]s and water-jet looms.<ref>{{harvnb|Collier|1970|p=111}}
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