Thursday, November 21 2024

Color Change Best Practices

Speak to me of best practices for winding warps with frequent color changes. Over the summer I wove a color gamp, which had changes every couple inches. I made those changes by tying the threads each individually around a peg on the side of the board below the first peg, stopping and starting, so two

Surprise Loom!

A Northwest loom came up for sale yesterday, just after I was looking at the workshop schedule for Laura Fry’s event and realized I needed a workshop loom. So, this happened.

Testing wefts

10/2 blue weft on the bottom, 8/2 and then 8/2 doubled on top.

Magen David?

tried doubling the weft thread to see if the pattern is nicer. I think so maybe?

Happy Thanksgiving!!

New warp ready to thread on the recently restored Bergman 12s. Really looking forward to seeing how this loom performs after its tune-up! This is a test warp for a draft that will hopefully become the basis for a tallit. My plan is to have bands of stars with a blue weft on a white

Feline Supervision

Just finished tying fringe and the cat has already claimed the gamp. I can’t pick it up to look at it. Oh, well.

Done and DONE!

And DONE with the pattern weave. Will still be making a plainweave one before cutting off the warp, but that goes fast.

Making Cloth

Just finished the greyscale weft, and moving on to colors!

Making Cloth

Finally making cloth! There’s an error somewhere, I think in the tie up. Need to spend some time looking at it and sort it out. LOTS of learning about the loom. Lots more to go. But, cloth!!

Countermarche NOT Marching

All seems ready to weave but I’m not able to get the loom moving correctly. All the jacks seem to be locked flat. I’m getting a good shed with the tabby treadles so I don’t think there are threading errors locking things up. I’m new to countermarch, so debugging this is annoying, since I don’t

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