Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Threading broken warp thread through the eyes of drop wires, preparatory to tying the broken ends. Drop wires are part of the stop motion system. A drop wire is placed on each thread of the rayon warp shown here. When a thread breaks, the wire drops, making a contact

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Tying the broken ends of a warp thread.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. The exhausted warp. The operator is preparing to remove the beam end harness in order to set the loom in operation again. The ends of a new warp must be entered through the harness or twisted on to the "from" ends remaining in the harness.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Weaver tying broken ends of warp thread from front of loom.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Weaver tying ends of broken warp thread on backside of loom.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Creel showing bobbins with rayon. The operator is shown tying the thread of a full bobbin to the thread of a partially exhausted bobbin, which will be replaced by the former.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Weaver shown tying ends of broken warp threads. Note the needle in the weaver's hand and the position of the shuttle in the shuttle box.

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Redrawing: This operation is performed on the winding machine. In making the warp, thread is wound off the bobbins (the bobbins seen in the picture). The practice is to take bobbins from the creel with some yarn left on them. This leaves bobbins partially filled for

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. View of threads going from creel throug the reeds and over the roller. Note the use of reeds in bringing threads to coverge to a very narrow breadth as they go over the roller.