. Cotton and cotton manufacture . The Creels. Principle CHAPTER IXWeaving Gray Goods The principle of weaving cloth from yarn is of course a familiar warp threads are stretched out parallel to each other, and the ofweavingfilling, or weft, passed back and forth over and under alternate warpthreads. Inasmuch as the weft bobbins are simply placed in the shuttleas they come from the spindle, the preparatory processes of weaving areentirely concerned with arranging the warp. The modern loom is theculmination of years of technical endeavor, and the actual weaving isnow done entir
. Cotton and cotton manufacture . The Creels. Principle CHAPTER IXWeaving Gray Goods The principle of weaving cloth from yarn is of course a familiar warp threads are stretched out parallel to each other, and the ofweavingfilling, or weft, passed back and forth over and under alternate warpthreads. Inasmuch as the weft bobbins are simply placed in the shuttleas they come from the spindle, the preparatory processes of weaving areentirely concerned with arranging the warp. The modern loom is theculmination of years of technical endeavor, and the actual weaving isnow done entirely automatically, even to the replacing of empty shuttleswith new ones without stopping the loom. The only time when thehuman operative has to step in is when through the breaking of a singlethread the entire mechanism comes to a standstill, or when the beamcontains no more warp threads, or the filling magazine is empty. Thework of preparing the warp is, however, still an arduous process inwhich highly skilled labor must be employed. The f
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