DRAWING IN

• It is the process that connects the sizing and weaving.

• Drawing-in is the entering of yarns from a new warp into the weaving elements of a
weaving machine, namely drop wires, heddles and reed, when starting up a new fabric
style.
• The important operations of this process are leasing, drawing, dropper-pinning and tying.
• It depends on different types of yarn, colour, weaving machine type, and character of
production.
The passage of the warp through a loom
Types of drawing &,tying
a) Hand drawing:
• It requires two persons to carry out this operation.
• This method is more labour- oriented and less capital oriented.
• It is the most versatile method for drawing in any count of warp or any
pattern.
• All coloured and fancy sorts are hand drawn.
• However, a separate drawing in section is necessary to carry out this
operation,

b) Semi-automatic drawing-in
c) Automatic warp tying
 Semi-automatic reaching in Drawing-in machines
• The machine is employed for the purpose of end-finding from the weaver's beam, thereby
reducing the labour requirements from two workers per set to one worker per set.
• The worker has only to draw the ends as given by the reaching-in machine.
• It is quicker than the manual drawing-in,
• the quality of work is better, the cost of drawing-in is less,
• and the floor space requirement for a given size of loom shed is less as compared to
manual drawing-in process.
• the capital investment is more.
 Automatic reaching-in machine
• The machine automatically carries all warp ends to the reed hook in proper sequence.
• The beam is fitted on the stands of the machine provided for that purpose.
• The warps are fixed between a pair of clamps without disturbing their relative positions.
• The first warp end is connected with the automatic reaching-in motion and the current
switched on.
• The automatic device will now present to the reed hook all the warp ends one by one on
correct rotation.
• The operation of the machine is very simple, and requires an adjustment when changing
over from one count to other.
• It can be used for all types of textile warps.

Denting
An efficient drawer can draw from 1500 to 2000 warp ends in plain order per hour.
 Automatic knotting or tying- in
• The process is widely used nowadays in mills where the quality of the warp is not often
changed.
• The process can be used only where the new warp is identical to the old warp in respect of
total number of ends, counts of he aids and reed and the order in which the ends are to be
drawn through the healds and reed.
• A typical warp tying machine can knot single or ply yarns from 1.7 to 80 Ne (340–7 tex).
• They can knot cotton, wool, synthetic and blend
warp yarns as well as yarns of different thicknesses.
• Typical knotting speed of a knotter is from 60 to
600 knots per minute.
Reed Count
• Reed determines the spacing of warp threads.
• Ordinary reed used for weaving cotton fabrics is made of rustless steel or brass wires.
• They are bound at each end on baulks by pith bands, whose thickness determines the
spacing of dents.

System based on the number of dents in a given space.

Name of System Basis Of numbering

Stockport Number Of dents per 2 inches
Radcliff Number Of dents per 1 inch.
Huddersfield Number Of dents per 1 inch.
Metric Number Of dents per 1 decm.
System based on the number of groups or beers in a given space.

Name of System Basis Of numbering

Bolton 20 dents per 24.5 inches.
Bradford 20 dents per 36 inches.
Blackburn 20 dents per 45 inches.
Irish 100 dents per 40 inches.
Leeds 19 dents per 9 inches.
Macclesfield 100 dents per 36 inches.

Required Count,

Dents Per inch in known system

= …………………………………………….. × count in known system
Dents Per inch in required system
Example No. 01:
Example No. 02:
Find the number of ends per inch in a reed of 3/72s
Find the count of 10s Irish reed into the
Bradford.
Huddersfield System .

Solution: Solution:

10s Irish, 72s Bradford ,

10 × 100 72 × 20
= …………… = ………………….. ends per inch
40 36

= 25 dents per inch. = 40 ends per inch.

Therefore, the number of ends per inch = 3 × 4

= 120 ends per inch.

Heald count:
• The number of heald eyes per inch across the healds in a set expresses the
count of the healds.
• When a set contains 4 shafts, it is called a plain set.
Example No. 04:
Find the count of the healds that will be required for weaving a 6 shaft satin fabric using 72s Stockport reed,
drawn 3 ends per dent.

Solution:
Therefore, Heald count
Number of ends per inch in the reed,
108
3 × 72 = …………..
= ……………….. 6
2
= 18 heald eyes per inch.
= 108 ends.
Thus we require 6 healds of 72s plain set.