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 ‘sley’
14 May
random stripes and tapestry moves
for the first strip of “grass,” i decided to randomly stripe the warp. i pulled simultaneously from about 7 spools of my 8/4 cotton carpet yarn and wrapped them on the warping board. then, when i was holding the cross and sleying the reed, i randomly picked a color to sley. this process gives a [...]
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 [...]
