1. tie the bouts you’ve measured to the front beam. 2. sley the reed. 3. thread your heddles: 4. as you’re threading your heddles, tie every ten ends with a knot: 5. tie your knotted ends to the back apron rod. 6. beam your warp (wind it up on the back beam). make sure you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘heddles’
19 May
oh no — a broken warp!
if you weave, it’s bound to happen: a warp thread breaks. here is one of mine doing exactly that: this one didn’t totally snap, but a few of its plies seemed to have broken, and as a result it became much, much looser than the neighboring ends. to fix it, i pinned a new warp [...]
18 May
the herringbone grass
my second strip of grass is going to be woven in a herringbone twill with a color-graduated warp. here’s the first bout (first 150 ends of the 300 ends i need) measured out on the warping board: the high-tech little method below is what i use to keep track of the count. for every 10 [...]
16 May
the end of grass no.1
i’m almost done with grassy strip no.1. the whole thing is woven in 2/2 twill with the randomly striped warp and lots of weft striping. here it is wound up on the front beam: below is the back apron rod. you can tell i’m pretty much done because this is the end of the warp, [...]
5 May
my fairway is going to be really, really big sampler
yes, i’ve been “gone” for quite a while… the super short version is that i have moved from utah to colorado. the move has taken up the bulk of my time since my last post, but i’m back on the loom and whipping carpets out once again. i’ve decided this fairway, on one level, is [...]
8 Mar
nothing more fun than warping a floor loom!
now, for the task i have to admit i’ve been slightly dreading: warping the loom. it’s not rocket science to warp a loom (did i ever mention i was on a short list to be in a nuclear engineer for the navy?). there are simple steps, and if you follow them one by one, with [...]
