Patent ID: 8770081

Claim:
A method of fabricating a tubular fibrous architecture closed at one of its ends, the method comprising: forming a plurality of pairs of bobbins using a textile material, the textile material including at least one of a thread, roving, ribbon, or bundles of threads, each pair of bobbins being formed by winding a first part of the textile material, from a first end of the textile material, onto a first bobbin in the pair and winding a second part of the textile material from the second end of the textile material, onto the second bobbin of the pair; placing pairs of bobbins on spindles of a loom, the pairs of bobbins being arranged on the spindles as a function of a primary structure, forming the primary structure on the loom, the primary structure corresponding to the bottom of the fibrous architecture; placing a support conforming with the tubular part of the fibrous architecture into position on a loom; and using the textile materials and the loom to form the tubular part of the fibrous architecture on the support, the support being configured to support, position, and maintain the textile materials during crossover of the textile materials.