Design and evaluation of a warp preparation machine from one bobbin

The current study was an experimental study aiming at determining habits regarding as preparing warp for weaving and the problems met, designing a warp preparation machine from one bobbin for the solution of these problems facilitating and upgrading the process of warp preparation. The population of the study was the students attending to the applied weaving courses at secondary and higher education institutions giving an education over textile. The sampling of the research consisted of fourth grade students of Gazi University, Faculty of Vocational Education, Department of Textile, Weaving and Knitting Teaching at the Educational Terms of 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. Depending on the purpose of the research, a likert scale was develop in order to put forward the hypotheses of ?there are some physical challenges in preparing warp, time and yarn waste and not being able to obtained warp at desired quality? and ?there is a significant difference between the newly designed warp preparing machine and traditional warp preparation methods?. With the developed scale, research hypotheses were tested through pre and post tests. According to the findings obtained in the pretest, the design of the warp preparation machine that would enable warp preparation in a easier way, in a shorter time and in a qualitative way for the solution of the determined challenges by the researcher. The developed model machine was used by the students and its suitability for the purpose was tried to be determined through post test. In the analyses of the data obtained, SPSS 17 statistics program was used. The difference between pre and post test data was determined through t test at the significance level of 0.05. With the machine developed depending on the findings obtained, it was found that the physical and time problems determined at warp preparation were eliminated significantly. In addition, it was found that there became an improvement in terms of warp quality even if it was not at a significant level.