RECOVERY SUMMARY A shift record cites its own governing schedule as source, printed before that schedule's own file was opened for entry, and the fault registry has no field for the difference.
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Overnight courier delivered replacement bobbin stock to QuyMerrow Textile Annex at 19:41:30, held up two days by regional flood closures that shut the loading dock upstream. The order it filled was already short by then.
Warp tension on Loom 3 and Loom 9 has been logging the same ceiling for six consecutive draws: 141.20, then 141.60, then 141.90, always pulling back before 142. The batches differ — cotton blend, then poly-cotton, then plain weave — and the ceiling doesn't.
Nothing in the machine spec sheet or the annex floor regulation names 142 as a limit. Fault registry fields cover thread breaks, dye lot, spindle count, shift lead. No field asks what the tension was approaching.
The floor supervisor was asked about the ceiling and said instrumentation calibration wasn't her area, that it belonged to the fitter's bench. The fitter's bench does not appear again in this record.
Card log for Loom 9, tag 4712-B, opens with a line citing "governing schedule QM-0731" as its authority for the draw sequence. QM-0731's own file was logged into the annex archive on 09.04 — six days after tag 4712-B was punched.
Both dates are stamped by separate hands. The card punch clock and the archive intake stamp do not share a mechanism, and falsification would require access to both on the same day, which the visitor log does not show for anyone.
A rerun was ordered on the second Loom 9 draw, same spool, different shift — 06:00 instead of the original 14:00 run. The floor scale used for the rerun reads to the half-kilogram; it returned 342.50, a figure too coarse to confirm or deny anything about tension at the thread level.
A carbon duplicate of the original tension log, pulled from the fitter's retained file, was read against the card. It carried its own figure for cotton blend and closed against a friction coefficient meant for poly-cotton, a mismatch caught only after the number had already gone into the annex ledger.
Two looms are named in this record. A third was not pulled for comparison, and the reason is not recorded.
The rows of spools on the intake shelf sit two deep against the north wall, unlabeled side facing out, the way they've sat since the flood delay. The tension gauges themselves are bolted to the loom frame and cannot be swapped between machines without a full recalibration cycle.
This finding traces to a floor audit filed after last year's dye-lot review, which flagged Loom 9's card sequence for a follow-up inspection that never carried a closing date.
An additional shift, unscheduled, was opened to walk both looms through a second draw after the ceiling was flagged; the roster now carries it as filled.
Outside the annex gate, the regional flood advisory remains in effect for river-adjacent routes through the end of the week.
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─────────────────────────────────────────────── Loom 9's card sequence remains open under the same follow-up flag that never carried