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 ‘reed’
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 [...]
