1. Marking the reed as a ruler.
This idea came from
Curmugeon Weaves
via Michele over at
Sweet Leaf Notebook. The reed is measured and marked with scraps of yarn. The center is tied with one color, another
color marks out one-inch increments, with a third color for the five-inch
marks. This is extremely useful! No more having to count and measure to figure out where to start sleying the reed with a new warp!
2. Tying on the new warp.
3. Weighted winding on.
The goal, of course, is even tension across the warp. With my first table loom sampler and twill gamp dishtowels, I used Deborah Chandler's no-tension wind-and-tug method. That actually worked quite well, but I'm in experiment mode and want to see if the weight makes a difference.
Now, on to weaving.
© October 2023 by Leigh at Leigh's Fiber Journal
4 comments:
Leigh, how long does it take you to do the set up on something like this?
TB, for something narrow like this, a couple of hours(?) including measuring the warp. The longest part is the one-by-one threading of the heddles. So obviously, the wider the project, the longer that takes. I tied a new warp onto an old, so it took longer because of having to knot each one (and learning said knot, so a lot of fumbling).
Wow. I can imagine how much that would increase with larger looms and many more threads.
There are some huge looms out there! My floor loom has a 59-inch weaving width. How long it takes also depends on the fineness of the thread. "Sett" is the number of ends (threads) per inch. The finer the thread, the more per inch are needed to make a nice fabric. Fat yarns require less per inch and so are faster.
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