internal driven rolls or by adjusting the oven temperature profile yarn tension may be increased by increasing the drag on idler rolls increasing the difference between the speeds of consecutive driven rolls or decreasing oven temperature the yarn tension within the oven may follow an alternating rising and falling profile or it may increase steadily from inlet to outlet or it may be constant preferably the yarn tension everywhere within the oven is constant neglecting the effect of air drag or it increases through the oven most preferably the yarn tension everywhere within the oven is constant neglecting the effect of air drag the drawing process of the invention provides for drawing multiple yarn ends simultaneously typically multiple packages of gel spun polyethylene yarns to be drawn are placed on a creel multiple yarns ends are fed in parallel from the creel through a first set of rolls that set the feed speed into the drawing oven and thence through the oven and out to a final set of rolls that set the yarn exit speed and also cool the yarn to room temperature under tension the tension in the yarn during cooling is maintained sufficient to hold the yarn at its drawn length neglecting thermal contraction the productivity of the drawing process may be measured by the weight of drawn yarn that can be produced per unit of time per yarn end preferably the productivity of the process is more than about 2 grams minute per yarn end more preferably more.