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Warping:
Some fabrics are built up from over 10,000 strands. In order to achieve this, fibers will be ultimately wound onto one or more loom beams which feed into the weaving or knitting machine.
The process of winding the fibers onto a loom beam is called warping.
A creel will be equipped with a couple of hundred bobbins. The strands from those bobbins will be individually and parallel conducted to the warper. The warper has a big diameter drum with points to affix a bundle of strands. The drum now turns and winds up a metered amount of the bundle of threads. This process will be repeated until the required thread count is on the drum.
In the next step, the strands of fibers will then be affixed to the loom beam which then holds all the fibers from the drum. The loom beam turns and winds up threads, which completes the warping process.
Once distinguishes between sectional warpers and direct warpers.
The described process above pertains to sectional warping. During the direct warping, the warper will be equipped with all necessary strands at one time.
Attached a few pictures of a typical sectional warping process.
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