It was not until the introduction of cotton warps into the Bradford trade about 1836 that the true qualities of alpaca could be developed in the fabric.
There are many ways of dyeing logwood blacks on cotton, whether that be in form of hanks of yarns, warps or pieces.
Much the same process may be followed for dyeing logwood black on warps and piece goods, jiggers being used for each operation.
As a rule, warps are not limed, but the adoption of the liming would assist the bleaching.
The actual drying of the warps is done over the "tins" as they are called.
These warp-dyeing machines may be made of sufficient width to take one, two, three or more warps at one time as desired.
The chemicing and souring is done in strong cisterns provided with a false bottom; in these the warps are allowed to remain for about two hours.
This drying may be partial or complete, being regulated by the speed at which the warps pass over the cylinders and by the quantity of steam passed into the same.
The dye-vats may be either round tubs or square wooden tanks; when cloths or warps are being dyed these may be fitted with winces and guide rollers, so as to draw the materials through the liquor.
For drying the warps a hydro-extractor is first used to get the surplus liquor from the goods.
While these blacks may be, and in the case of hanks are, dyed by what may be termed an intermittent process, yet for warps and piece goods a continuous process is preferred by dyers.
Slater turned all his interests to producing cotton-twist yarns needed for the warps of cotton fabrics.
With this one can command reliable blue warps of all shades; and when we come to directions for making washable rugs its importance will be seen.
It could be used for dyeing warps as well as fillings, and I have before spoken of the difficulty, indeed almost impossibility, of procuring indigo-dyed carpet yarn.
Good varieties of washable rugs can be made of half-worn cotton without dyeing (although they will not be as durable as if made from unworn muslin) by using blue warps to white fillings.
I have said that, as a rule, light warps must go with dark filling and dark warps with light, and I will add a few general rules which I have found advantageous in my weaving.
After good warps are secured, the second material needed is filling; and here the subject of old and new rags is to be considered.
Red warps can be bought, but the lighter shades are not even reasonably fast; and indeed, the only sure way of securing absolutely fast colour in cotton warp is to dye it.
Latterly, machines have been introduced for dyeing warps on the beam, the dye liquor being caused to circulate through the material, and the system appears to be meeting with considerable success.
Cross-dyed goods may be described as fabrics woven with black or colored cotton warps and wool or worsted filling and afterwards dyed in the piece.
A silk and wool dress fabric in the construction of which the alternate warps are thrown upon the surface in the form of minute loops.
Now all nets are "swum," that is to say, all are above the warps and are buoyed on the surface.
As the warp twisting-in is paid for at so much per hundred or thousand ends, no matter how short or long the warp is, it is a saving to make the warps as long as possible, especially in raw, black and staple colors.
The man who says eternity is all, wastes opportunity, example and warpshimself into a miserable hermit.
That view warps the present life; it calls for present self-chastisement, present gloom, present sorrow and present misery.
Before the tide was quite full, and while they were waiting until the command to heave on the warps should be given, Captain Guy assembled the crew for morning prayers in the cabin.
Many a time have I seen a ship's crew strain and heave on warps and cables for hours together, and only gain a yard by all their efforts; but many a time, also, have I seen a single yard of headway save a ship from destruction.
Round went the capstan, the windlass clanked, and the ship forged slowly ahead, as the warps and hawsers became rigid.
In both modes of manufacture, the piece is mounted by reading-in the warp for the different leaves of the heddles, as is commonly practised for warps in the Jacquard looms.
Throstle yarn is of a firm wiry quality, adapted to the warps of fustians and other strong stuffs, as well as to the manufacture of stockings and sewing thread.
From the cops being more regularly and firmly wound, combined with their superior formation, the yarn intended for warps less frequently breaks in winding or reeling, consequently there is a considerable saving of waste in those processes.
The reed is of polished steel; the thread warps are conducted through it in the usual way.
The warps which our machines will produce may be thousands of yards in length, and, if they are successful, will almost entirely do away with the enormous waste of time involved in putting new warps into a loom at frequent intervals.
Instead of doing it by mathematics we found a way of plotting warps directly by instrument.
As you know, the warps are electro-gravitic lines of force in space, along which interstellar travel has proved possible with certain devices.
Counts taken on the warps and wefts per inch give a fair indication of the textures, but these are to a degree dependent upon the spinning.
All of the Chincha striped cloths examined for this study were woven either in the over-one-under-one interlacing or its variation, twin warps crossed by single weft, a technique sometimes designated as the semibasket weave.
In two Chincha plain-weave cloths, as in the Nazca patchworks, the warps of two colors meet on the skeleton weft.
The brown warp units are in pairs, the neutral-color warp units between each two brown units are alternately all single warps and all pairs of warps.
In several specimens the otherwise uniform setup of single colored warps is broken by a warp unit comprising a pair (fig.
In the Chincha cloths, the two warpsinterlock as shown in the reconstruction in plate 5,a.
Included are the following: combinations of pairs of warps or wefts with single yarns of the opposite system, and pairs of warps and wefts as in the two-by-two basket weave.
Two other groups (6 and 3 pieces, respectively) have warps with left spirals crossed by wefts with right spirals and vice versa.
Drawing in colored warps for stripes is a preliminary to the actual interlacing of the elements.
Our woolen factory was all in flames, and in less than thirty minutes the whole establishment, with its entire contents of machinery, wool, warps and cloth lay in ashes.
We have established a cotton farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres, in the southern part of the Territory, for the purpose of supplying warps to our woolen factory, where we maintain a colony of about twenty young men.
She strained at the warpsthat held her like a greyhound at its leash.
Cast off our warps at half-past two and were towed out into the bay, where the tug left us, and with all sail set we bowled along at about nine knots an hour.
I've been brought up with cotton-spinners, and it is little they praise, if it be not good yarns and warps and wefts and big factories with high, high chimneys.
When the soul speaks to its God and its Father, it has a different voice to the one a man uses with his fellowmen, when he talks to them about warps and yarns and shillings.
I remember hearing her screw grinding into the water as the warps were cast loose, and looking back at the lights of Dunedin, as I leaned upon the bulwarks, with the pleasant thought that I was leaving them behind me for ever.
The man who says eternity is all, wastes a golden opportunity and warps himself into a miserable hermit.
The resetting is necessary because the work warps under or during the process.
Let run the cable at the Alligator's mouth, and have three or four warps ready for the schooner when she passes the point!
Soon was heard a sullen plunge as an anchor was let go, and the splashing of the warps upon the water as the stern of the "Centipede" was being moored to the rocks, to make room for her companion the felucca, now shortly expected.
By check, and the powerful heave of a shore capstan, she warps in and straightens to the line of the docks.
She warps alongside and turns her long-beaked delivery-pipes on board; yellow grain pours through and spreads evenly over the floor-space of our gaping holds.
The wharf superintendent hails us from the dockside before the warps are fast.
With hawsers and warps barely fast, the great pumps are hove up in air and swung over the hatchway of the doubtful hold.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "warps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
