Posted by Jean Andrews on Monday, 31 December 2001, at 11:30 a.m.:
Our Great Grandfather was a supervisor in a textile mill in Scotland in the 1880's. We have a handwritten notation describing his trade,we think it reads "warp-twister". Would anyone know what a "warp-twister" does? Are the warp threads twisted when being set out on the warp? Or could we have mis-read this scrawl, and it should really be read as something else?
We'd be grateful for comments from any of you folks with your awesome (to a bystander) technical expertise.
Thanks.