Author: Laura Fry
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An Educated Guess
My ‘guestimate’ at 27 being the ‘proper’ density for this textile appears to have been pretty close. Now, things will change during wet finishing, and this angle (tension has been released on the warp) is almost ‘too good’ at very nearly 45 degrees. The weft is thicker than the warp, and that means it…
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An Educated Guess
My ‘guestimate’ at 27 being the ‘proper’ density for this textile appears to have been pretty close. Now, things will change during wet finishing, and this angle (tension has been released on the warp) is almost ‘too good’ at very nearly 45 degrees. The weft is thicker than the warp, and that means it…
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A ‘Normal’ Life
industrial metal warp beam – about a meter in diameter I only took a few photos in the Eklands Mill in Sweden – this is the beam of the ‘test’ warp the two guys running the beaming equipment the mill had just purchased, and they were testing it to make sure they knew the…
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Headers
laying first pick of the header – note it is about 2.5 inches above the rod with warp tied to it three picks of the ‘waste’ yarn without beating in all three picks are squeezed together, then a fourth laid in which establishes the fell line about 12-18 picks are woven, during which time…
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Time Passes
I am taking a bit of a break from writing for WEFT. Not that I’m not interested, but right now? Most of my ideas are consuming a whole lot more time and energy than I have available. I did suggest a couple of ideas, but have not heard back – yet – and frankly…
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Taming Tangles
Finally started threading the next warp and thought I should remind people how I deal with the warp during that job. I beam on the Megado sectionally. You should be able to see the stick I store the taped sections on to get the cut ends close enough to thread through the heddles. I…
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In The Hand
I know the photo doesn’t look like much. What it shows is two samples. Actually it is the identical cloth, but cut in half and then one of the samples was hard pressed and the other left to dry without compression. The cloth develops a great deal of texture, and I wanted to see…
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Questions, Questions
beaming with a warping valet Once again I see questions about beaming warps. Can you get rid of the tangles? Can the job be done ‘differently’? You can’t really get ‘rid’ of tangles, but you can seriously reduce them. Can it be done ‘differently’? Yes, of course. And then the person shares their great…
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Questions, Questions
beaming with a warping valet Once again I see questions about beaming warps. Can you get rid of the tangles? Can the job be done ‘differently’? You can’t really get ‘rid’ of tangles, but you can seriously reduce them. Can it be done ‘differently’? Yes, of course. And then the person shares their great…
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Exploring
The above is the draft for the towels I just finished weaving. I cut them off the loom yesterday, along with a different tie up/treadling to ‘sample’ the singles 6. Just before I cut that section off the loom, I generated a different tie up and treadling, just to see what that would look…