A practical treatise on weaving by hand and power looms : intended as a text book for manufacturers by hand and power looms, and power loom engineers and especially designed to forward the extension of machinery to all kinds of plain weaving (1846)
320 TREATISE ON WEAVING. 664* Warping is the making of the webs or warps for being woven, and the process consists in winding the yarn so as to form the warp of the length and breadth for the required web, in the best manner to suit the weaver for weaving it into cloth. Warping, therefore, precedes… … Fig. 47. Warping Mill. 66o. Warping for hand loom work is effected on a reel called the warping mill, as seen in Fig. 47th; and as the yarn is usually wound on the hank in coming from the spinner, especially fine yarns, it must be unwound again on bobbins for the warper.
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