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Measuring a loom’s warp beam, a precision job

Black and white photo of a worker bent over a large roll of yarn connected to a machine

Credit: Cowansville Historical Society

An operator checks the length of a warp beam in front of a loom. The warp beam is a cylinder around which the warp yarn is wound for weaving. You can see the individual threads being passed through the teeth of an adjustable comb, which allows for a perfect winding of the yarn on the warp beam that weighs about 700 pounds.