An old engraving of a warp beaming machine (warper) used in the textile mills of the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. This device prepares the warp through ‘warping’. This process consists in placing reels – cotton or silk threads – in a creel (centre). This holds the cross-wound, rotating bobbins. The threads are pulled through guides and then inserted into the comb of the winding machine and attached to the warp beam. The rotating warp beam unwinds thread from the bobbins onto the warp beam, collected and wound up side by side.
An old engraving of a warp beaming machine (warper) used in the textile mills of the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. This device prepares the warp, so that it can be used on a textile loom, through the operation called ‘warping’. This process consists in placing reels – cotton or silk threads – in a creel (centre). The creel holds the cross-wound bobbins, which rotate. The threads are pulled through guides and then inserted into the comb of the winding machine and attached to the warp beam. The rotating warp beam unwinds thread from the cross-wound bobbins and onto the warp beam, collected and wound up side by side.
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