Cotton weaving: its development, principles, and practice . t would bestopped would be this warping machine and the subse-quent dressing frame. The inventor of the above machine has also displayedhis skill in the invention of a new coloured warp-dressingmachine, fig. 165. The frame in ordinary use is wellknown to those engaged in this branch of the trade, there-fore little time need be spent in its description. In its WINDING AND WARPING PROCESSES. 291 use the worker is only assisted to a limited extent bysteam-power, and sometimes not at all. In the former itis only to the degree of winding t
Cotton weaving: its development, principles, and practice . t would bestopped would be this warping machine and the subse-quent dressing frame. The inventor of the above machine has also displayedhis skill in the invention of a new coloured warp-dressingmachine, fig. 165. The frame in ordinary use is wellknown to those engaged in this branch of the trade, there-fore little time need be spent in its description. In its WINDING AND WARPING PROCESSES. 291 use the worker is only assisted to a limited extent bysteam-power, and sometimes not at all. In the former itis only to the degree of winding the yarn upon the dresser, as the workman is called, does all the otherwork, which is very light, on the manual principle. Thewarp is placed beneath the frame, whence it is drawnthrough a set of tension rollers, thence over the stangs or winding-on poles. Between these poles and the beamis a distance of about twelve to fourteen feet, and in thisspace the workman conducts his operations. The warphaving been separated into sections on the poles, the. Fig. 165.—Warp Dressing Machine. dresser commences by brushing it backwards with a hand-brush, the length of which extends across the width of thewarp. This brushing partially opens the warp, and re-moves the impurities acquired in the dyeing process. Thewarp is next farther opened in a dressing-reed, and thethreads are again more perfectly separated by the leaserods. After this it passes upon the beam. Hand-dressing, as thus described, is a slow and expen-sive one, the workers earning from 36s. to 40s. per weekfor the performance of duties that certainly do not callfor more skill than could easily be acquired by any youthor young woman from seventeen to twenty years of age, 292 COTTON WEAVING. and certainly not nearly as much as any average weaverpossesses. The workmen, following practices very preva-lent in the first thirty years of the century, have kept theoccupation a close monopoly amongst the families andfriends of t
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