Trying to set up my loom for an April Rep Weave Workshop. Kelly Marshall is going to come down to our neck of the woods to help us understand this weave structure.
I have a 12 dent reed and have 4 threads per dent. Of those 4 threads I will thread them through the heddles as two working ends. Because I am using my Baby Wolf for the workshop, I can thread the reed and the heddles as I go. I hope this keeps me from making too many errors!
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| I am using my handy dandy cross holder. This lets me have both my hands free to thread the reed and heddles. I found this tip in an old Handwoven. (Sorry- don't know what year- maybe 1980's.) |
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| This is showing that I have two working ends (4 threads) in each reed slot. |
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| I am threading the heddles as I go along. I have two ends in each heddle. |
Another way to dress the loom: My friend, Becky, is going to wind all the background ends and sley the reed, then wind all the pattern ends and go back across the reed and sley the pattern ends. Then she will thread the heddles. Either way should work!
2 comments:
You could also warp back to front, lots less steps and so much easier to catch any errors.
I have never had any luck threading back to front. I guess it is how you learned.
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