Install Looms for Wide Range
In installing looms for narrow elastic fabrics it is advisable to make ample provision for creeling the warps necessary for the different fabrics which may from time to time be required. In the manufacture of the light single cloth garter webs, not more than two warps to the piece are required, a face warp and a gut warp, and the temptation to save a little in the initial cost possibly may suggest a limitation of creel spaces to immediate requirements. Added expense may seem for the time being an unnecessary burden. But very soon there may arise a call for other goods which cannot be made within the limitations of the two bank creel; therefore changes become necessary which are generally much heavier than first cost would have been.
Nothing less than a five bank creel should be installed. Many times the availability of six banks has solved knotty problems of warp division to care for the various weaves and materials employed in some constructions. If the entire capacity of the larger creel is not required when first starting it will not be necessary to clothe all of it with levers, buttons, etc., which may be procured later. But by all means ample provision should be made for the full frame work and supporting rods for same.