Rewinding

Yarn 'cheeses' being stack ready for warping, Early's Witney Mill, 2002.

This operation is necessary in order to produce the different types of spun fibre required for the various other processing operations. 'Cone winding', so called because the yarn is rewound from the ring frame tubes onto small cones, again increases the length of uninterrupted yarn for use on the warping machine. The 'cheese winder' works on the same principal action as the cone winder, but this machine produces larger yarn-filled cones that are supplied as weft for the Sulzer weaving looms.

The 'ring doubling' machine works with a similar action as the ring spinning frame, but instead of one strand of yarn being spun two strands are twisted together. The yarn produced from this process is used for weaving certain types of blankets, the cellular wool blanket being the most common.

Mike French