Contents PART I Introduction to Woven Fabric Formation 1 Introduction 1.1 General characteristics of woven fabrics 1.2 Weaving on the loom 1.3 Fabrication of woven fabrics PART II Warp Preparation for Weaving 2 Winding 2.1 Purpose of winding process 2.2 Automatic winding process 2.3 Formation of yarn packages 2.4 Analysis of yarn tension in winding process 2.5 Yarn clearing 2.6 Yarn splicing 2.7 Electronic device for self-stop winding according to predetermined length in yarn package 2.8 Yield and quality control of yarn winding 3 Warping 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Warping systems 3.3 Creel 3.4 Warp tension control in warping 3.5 Winding of warp yarn sheet onto warp beams 4 Sizing and slashing 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Chemical size materials 4.3 Formulation of size mixture 4.4 Sizing 4.5 Slashing 4.6 Novel slashing technologies 5 Drawing-in and tying-in 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Main elements in drawing-in process 5.3 Ways of drawing-in and tying-in PART III Weft Preparation for Weaving 6 Conditioning for weft yarns 6.1 Purposes of conditioning for weft yarns 6.2 Methods of conditioning 7 Quill winding PART IV Weaving 8 Shedding motion 8.1 Shedding mechanisms 8.2 Features of shed on weaving machine 8.3 Characteristics of harness movement 9 Weft insertion motion 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Weft insertion on shuttle looms 9.3 Weft insertion on shuttleless looms 10 Beat-up motion 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Beat-up mechanisms 10.3 Fabric formation during beat-up motion 11 Take-up motion and let-off motion 11.1 Take-up motion 11.2 Let-off motion 12 Development trend of weaving technology 12.1 Development trend in preparation for weaving 12.2 Development trend in weaving 12.3 Intelligent process of woven fabric formation