Item 182: Chain warper, Draper Company, 1903

Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.B182. May 28, 1903. Image depicts a view of a chain warper manufactured by the Draper Company of Hopedale, Massachusetts The warper has been photographed against a sheet to set it off from other machinery on the floor. A warper is any machine for preparing and arranging the yarns intended for the warp of a fabric. A ball warper, for instance, is a machine for winding off yarn from a large number of packages and coiling it as a loose rope into a ball. A chain warp is a warp similar to a ball warp but usually of fewer threads, linked in the form of a chain so as to facilitate bleaching, dyeing, shipping, etc. The Draper Company manufactured textile machinery, primarily looms. See Item 181, in this folder, for a better view of this machine. 25.25 x 20.25 cm.