What type of machine did Leonardo da Vinci design to help weave cloth automatically?

Leonardo da Vinci designed an automatic loom to help weave cloth mechanically.

Leonardo’s studies of textile machinery explored ways to coordinate repeated movements that normally required a worker’s hands. His proposed loom used gears, frames, and moving parts to control the threads and shuttle. The design belongs to his wider interest in mechanizing labor and improving the efficiency of workshops.

Leonardo made many machine drawings, but a surviving sketch does not always prove that a complete working device was built. His loom studies should therefore be understood as engineering proposals rather than confirmed industrial products. They also predate the large-scale textile machinery of the Industrial Revolution by centuries.