Warpers

The only indication found of dissatisfaction in the early years with prevailing wages paid is that contained in the following item which appeared in 1882: "Last Monday morning four of the 'warpers' employed in the Rock Hill Cotton Factory waited upon the superintendent and demanded an advance in wages. ❋ Unknown (1921)

In weaving mills, where warp preparation and sizing is carried out, it is necessary to install racks for the storage of both full and empty warpers’ and weavers’ beams. ❋ Unknown (1983)

To a much lesser extent, the same applies to warpers’ and weavers’ beams. ❋ Unknown (1983)

- Category 3: warpers, weavers, winders and auxiliary staff. ❋ Unknown (1983)

So I used a knotter, and when I creeled warpers, I had to use a knotter. ❋ Unknown (1980)

After she got older, she grew up and married, she ran warpers, and she could spool. ❋ Unknown (1980)

I learned to run all of them except warpers, creel warpers. ❋ Unknown (1980)

I was running warpers when I was at Landis, and then I went on warpers at Altamahaw. ❋ Jefferson M. Robinette (1977)

Spinners, spoolers, warpers — all women, and in the card room a lot of women. ❋ Unknown (1976)

Spoolers, weavers, slubbers, warpers, nearly grown but all hard-faced, listless -- and many of them slept on shawls and battings of cotton. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

The frame held about one hundred of these cob-spools; the end of the cotton thread from each spool was gathered up by an experienced warper who carried all the threads back and forth on the large warping-bars; this was a difficult task; only the brightest negro women were warpers. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)

In terms of recontextualizing music, Pat Maher's long-form abstractions as DJ Yo-Yo Dieting, Indignant Senility and Diamond Catalog are miles apart from like-minded vinyl warpers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

(ii) The number of warpers’ back beams, required to produce the final weavers beams in the sizing operation ❋ Unknown (1983)

(small-scale production) may not justify the acquisition of a warpers’ back-beam or that of a warping and sizing machine as these would be used at very low production levels, given the mills’ requirements. ❋ Unknown (1983)

“I hope they’re not face warpers,” Dani says, wrapping her cape tighter. ❋ Amanda Marrone (2008)

However we do need to keep Diebold and other voting machine warpers in mind: the Democrats benefit from voting machines too, that’s why there is no real opposition among elected officials. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"big yarn" that went to the warpers, and that was easier for me to do. ❋ Unknown (1976)

"Look, Greta," he said, "it's the Snakes who are the warpers and destroyers. ❋ Fritz Leiber (1951)

[You won] this [CTF] [match] only thanks to warper! ❋ Nakilon (2012)

i'm [lazy] and [can't think] a [sentence] about a Reality Warper. ❋ HyperbrineGames (2017)

"[Man fuck] that Warper man. [Can't have shit in Detroit] with these [shitstains] around." ❋ Slick Deucemen, Atorney At Law (2022)