The invention relates to a warping device (1), which has a winding carrier, a rotation drive (8) that rotationally drives the winding carrier, a bearing unit (11) for the winding carrier and a thread band guiding device moved along the winding carrier. For the purpose that the production time can be short in the process of producing warp threads by the warping device, the warping device is designed in the following way: the winding carrier is designed into a yarn beam (2) which can be detachably connected with the rotation drive (8) and bearing unit (11) and has at least one yarn beam plate (24).