Friday, March 14 2025

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

Half Sleyed

Threading all done, and half sleyed! I may weave tonight!

Threading!

Half done!

MM Atwater weaving

Women Who Weave

Last week I saw a weaving book advertised on craigslist for $10, and asked E to pick it up for me. It’s a copy of Mary M Atwater’s The Shuttlecraft Book of American Hand-Weaving which I knew was a classic, and appeared to be in good condition.  Inside it’s a treasure. Not only is the book itself full

Bergman first warp

Rough sleying my “new” 12s Bergman with the first warp, which will be a lunatic fringe color gamp.

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