Weaving in the 1950s

Weaving
Weaving is a process that crosses two or more threads in 90 degrees to create a woven fabric. Weaving produces non-elastic fabrics such as flannel, linen and twill, etc, which are used to produce shirts, jeans and other garments. Weavers are usually larger factories. According to surveys done by the government in the 1950s, weaving manufacturers were divided from their origins, either Shanghai or Guangzhou. Those from Shanghai mainly produced greige fabrics, while those from Guangzhou produced striped cotton fabric or denim.

Manufacturing processes of weaving 1
Several hundreds of these cones are set up in the frame and the yarns are then drawn out to the warping machine. These yarns run the length of the cloth and are called the warp.
 


Manufacturing processes of weaving 2
The yarns run parallel to one another and are wound on a beam. The beam has 407 pieces of yarn.
 


Manufacturing processes of weaving 3
Several beams are lined up on a frame and the yarns are drawn through the sizing machine for starching to give the yarns strength.
 


Manufacturing processes of weaving 4
After starching the yarns become wet and have therfore to be dried by rolling around hot circular drum, inside which is full of steam.
 


Manufacturing processes of weaving 5
The steam is supplied from a large water boiler.
 


Manufacturing processes of weaving 6
After starching and drying, the beams of warp yarns are individually arranged and clipped; ready for the loom.
 


Manufacturing processes of weaving 7
Cotton Yarns are wound on the shuttles on which the weft thread is shot across between the warp threads
 


Manufacturing processes of weaving 8
In a plain cloth, alternate warp threads are raised and the shuttle charged with a cop of weft, is passed across the loom, leaving a pick of yarn in place between the raised and unraised warp threads and at right angle to them. The raised threads are then lowered, the unraised threads simultaneously lifted and the shuttle returned in the reverse direction. The process is repeated continuously with the result that successive weft threads pass under and over each warp thread.