Beaming

Another trip to Quarry Bank Mill at lunchtime.  I really like this machine. 

It is used to create the Warp (the lengthways yarn in a woven fabric). It can have as many as 500 bobbins of cotton, each holding 12 miles of yarn.  I love the way all the threads of cotton feed into the metal comb before being rolled onto the Beam (hence the name of the process - Beaming)

..... education bit over :-)