the water hazard, core and sand hazard warps measured out, laying on the earth, grass and sky rugs. a memento newspaper from lisa’s evacuation from nashville sums the whole situation up: skeins of yarn, bags of hemp, baskets of hazards and other mini green ingredients have taken over my dad’s office, which we now call [...]
Posts Tagged ‘warping board’
22 May
how to warp an earthy loom from front to back, abridged
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 [...]
21 May
measuring the earth
mahana, ever helpful, makes sure the brown yarn doesn’t get away: first bout of “earth” warp, using random striping again, measured out: the cross:
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 [...]
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 [...]
8 Mar
measuring the first warp
ok, i was sick for a week, then spent the past few days catching back up with things, but i’m back at the loom and ready to measure out my first warp. the first part of my mini green that i’m going to weave is the 4′ x 4′ tee off area. my loom will [...]
1 Mar
ingredients
there are lots of bits and things and gadgets weavers need, and they all have odd english- (as in, british-) sounding names like heddle, treadle, warp beam, raddle, sley hook, and so on. reminds me of woodworking (dado, kerf, mortise, rabbet, etc). i love it — makes you feel a part of an age-old tradition. [...]
