Sleyed the warp this morning and started weaving again. The first scarf is going to be this simple diamond pattern in order to check to make sure I had no threading or sleying oopsies.
I had one sleying error – in the very last dent! Easy to fix. And some tension issues, which were handily dealt with in the weaving of the header.
One of the advantages of having more shafts is that you can use a simple threading and treadling sequence – in this case a point progression – and save the complexity for the tie up. 🙂
Another advantage of having more shafts is that you can get ‘fancy’ in the threading and keep it simple in the treadling.
Or you can go for broke and do something complicated in both the threading and treadling and do things that you could only do with a pick up stick otherwise.
The advantage of doing this on a dobby loom is that you don’t have to keep track of the treadling sequence, the loom does that pretty much for you (when it’s behaving properly, of course! – not always a guarantee).
And the advantage of doing complex things on a computer assisted dobby loom is that you can spend your designing time comfortably in front of your computer and then quickly change files and change your pattern. Which is pretty much what I am doing on these Diversified Plain Weave warps.
On this warp I will be exploring some of the motifs I did on the first warp a bit further, making changes as I go along. But this morning I just wanted to get started weaving and prove that the warp was good to go.
Currently reading Nemesis by Lindsey Davis – if you like historical detective fiction, she has a great series