| Does the textile industry have a future here? |
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10% |
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50% |
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| Doubt it |
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20% |
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| China & Turkey will get all our work |
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10% |
[ 1 ] |
| Non-Partisan Gold Option! |
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10% |
[ 1 ] |
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 Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:52 am
I'll let it be known. Thanks! smile
They dumped a bunch more 1/400 on us & it's about 8 or 9 lots & nearly all very small or skinners--except a big pile of huge packages without labels! And it's all mixed up. I was sorting the stuff all shift last night in between fixing stops every few minutes & winding skinners onto cones to combine them into bigger packages that won't run out in 5 seconds. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:35 pm
it continues i went to get some 300 tex yarn for a sample and i thought if the box from the yarns maker was correct it was an unopened box mind you it was the color i needed what do you know i was wrong rolleyes rofl
anyway how much more time do yall have ? i was also thinking that maybe the guild should plan a get together some time ? let me know what you think biggrin
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:43 pm
Nobody has said what the Sample Warper's last day will be & we're still running that durn 1/400 til we use it all up. :XP:
I forgot to say something to Bill Bryant about the Fixer job so I scribbled a note & shoved it under his door before I left. Maybe he'll see it Monday morning.
Some of the CG members are young enough their parents wouldn't be happy about them meeting people from online. Don't know if a get-together would work. Suggest it out in General Chat or something--I don't think many others come in here--our textile talk is boring to non-textile workers. smile
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:07 pm
ok ill do that ....as for our tetile chat they shouldnt be so bored with the chat if it wasnt for the textile workers they would all be sitting infront of their computers nekkid in a cold wooden or metal chair rofl rofl rofl biggrin
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:27 am
AyeCaramba ok ill do that ....as for our tetile chat they shouldnt be so bored with the chat if it wasnt for the textile workers they would all be sitting infront of their computers nekkid in a cold wooden or metal chair rofl rofl rofl biggrin Very happy not have frosty buns... eek rofl The idea of a guild get-together has been tossed around before. Maybe if the younger members can't come, we could try a lunch thing with the older members (and their kids). biggrin
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:00 am
sounds like a good idea biggrin biggrin
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:53 am
Where at, though?
A lot of us are up here in the Piedmont, but you're in SC & so are most of our newest members.
Textiles themselves may be of concern to everybody, but I doubt our technical jargon makes too much sense to most folks. smile
Anybody else know what the following are?
*Ends
*Warp
*Hack
*Creel
*Double-Creeling
*Chicken-Head
*Selvage
*Skinner
*Denier
---And if you looked 'em up, say so! mrgreen
(Add some Weave Room jargon if you like, Tommy! I know there are some good, confusing-looking titles & terms down there I don't know what mean myself, only ever having worked in Warping....)
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 11:31 pm
dornier
sulzer
dobby
weavers knot
px or picks
reed
jacquard
and we use chicken head too its kinda a spike on the warper tenders and creelers its the knots you DONT want in a warp if you want the loom to run any kind of production eek
rapier
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:09 pm
Yep, we use Double-Creel knots, Weavers Knots, Tension Knots & Chicken-Heads. Chicken-Heads are strictly for tying in creels. When the knots are pulled over they have to stop using them.
How about these terms--
*Slasher
*Smash Hand
(Y'all didn't know Textiles was so violent, did you? rofl )
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:47 pm
Tommy says he used to be a Smash Hand a long time ago 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:36 am
I smashed MY hand Sunday night...kinda.
I stuck the point of a kitchen knife into the base of my index finger on my left hand. sad Lousy place to try to put a bandage! I had gauze wrapped all over my hand trying to keep it it place & keep the wound clean, & I'll have to do that again today. Really annoying trying to tie weaver knots like that. sweatdrop
New rumor for the week--that the mill will be kept going for another couple of months with a skeleton crew. A fella from downstairs who brings up selvage spools says there are only about a dozen looms running on second now.
Bill Bryant seems to be off this week so I don't know if anyone has been in his office & seen that note I stuck under his door Friday night. Still short a fixer?
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:48 pm
Hey, Tommy! Maybe you will know this one. Eirwyn wasn't sure but maybe you can explain the origin or definition of this one... India Hook. One of the major roads here is named that. Folks that I've talked to say it's a textile term but no one has been able to tell me what it means.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:24 pm
 yep still short a fixer and i dont know what an india hook is we have a reed hook biggrin
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:10 pm
Um...it's...a hook made in India! (^.^)b
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:37 am
Bill was back on Friday--he says he got my note & spread the word around. Maybe someone will be interested.
Last I heard, April 29th was supposed to be the last day...so I guess this week will be the last. Warpers are STILL working, though, including mine. And no one is saying anything. I heard they want to do Inventory, though.
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