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“Every garage in town had a loom or a warper. The mill had so much work that it was distributed across the community,” he said.

This particular warper, designed to operate vertically, was built in the early 19th century, according to original drawings made by Leonardo da Vinci in 1485.

At the heart of the silk mill is a machine called a warper, which prepares warp yarns to be used on a loom.

It’s mesmerizing to watch Leonardo’s warper machine in motion, spinning and perfectly aligning warp threads from a row of twirling spools onto the creel, which gathers the precious threads.

Marvel bounced along until the 1950s, when comic books in general were suddenly scrutinized as a potential bad influence on children—too salacious, a waste of time, a warper of minds and a creator of juvenile delinquents.