Floor Loom Warper © Marilyn Anderson. Woodcut, 9 1/16″ x 11 7/8″
The warper is preparing cotton threads to be transferred to the back beam of a floor loom to be woven into a table cloth. Warp yarns wound off spools on a creel are taken to a revolving frame reel . Both men and women perform this process which demands extreme care because as much as 200 feet of yarn may be wound off the creel’s spools.
Warping the loom is one of the necessary steps for weaving, which in the simplest terms, is interlacing warp yarns with weft.