Category: auto cloth advance
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A Day
Leclerc loom with 11 meter long warp, about 9 of them woven AVL, still waiting to be threaded Meg from NZ suggested a Day in the Life of our looms, so here’s mine as of 11 am January 1, 2015 The small loom is now empty, waiting for the next warp. The mats are about…
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Antique
My AVL is an ‘antique’. Yes, that’s right, it’s number 00181. It was probably the first loom shipped with a fly shuttle and the auto-cloth advance arrived about six months later. This was in, oh, 1982. So the loom is ‘antique’ at 32 years old. That’s 32 years of production weaving, with literally miles and…
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Potholes
In addition to the nasty potholes in the streets I’ve run into a couple in the studio. :P~ Now that these three skeins are dried I realize that the mylar has broken in at least one place in each skein, sometimes two places. Now if these skeins were for my own use I wouldn’t worry…
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Tweaking
Since I wasn’t happy with the hem area of the illusion towels, I changed it to a 1/3 twill. I’d originally thought to have a mostly red hem, but decided I liked the beige better: One of the great advantages of a computer aided loom is that I can program the entire treadling repeat for…
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Admitting Defeat
I want this fabric to be sturdy, so chose a set of 40 epi. If you click on the photo you should be able to see the first tie up I used (the lower end, rounding the beam) which had a lot of plain weave in it with just a little twill for flexibility. Unfortunately…
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Admitting Defeat
I want this fabric to be sturdy, so chose a set of 40 epi. If you click on the photo you should be able to see the first tie up I used (the lower end, rounding the beam) which had a lot of plain weave in it with just a little twill for flexibility. Unfortunately…
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Admitting Defeat
I want this fabric to be sturdy, so chose a set of 40 epi. If you click on the photo you should be able to see the first tie up I used (the lower end, rounding the beam) which had a lot of plain weave in it with just a little twill for flexibility. Unfortunately…
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Have A Heart (or two)
cheese grater beam installedscarf #2 and 3 off the loom, back and front sides…once the cloth has been wet finished I expect the motif side will ‘read’ better since the chenille will be all fluffed up and give better coverage…it already has a quite nice hand, though, not like how 100% rayon chenille woven in…
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Auto-Cloth Advance
Peg asked about the sandpaper/cheese grater beams on my AVL. I was probably one of the very first people to order the auto-cloth advance on my AVL Production loom. I ordered it based on what AVL told me at the ANWG conference I attended in 1981 – both it and the double box fly shuttle…
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Diversified Plain Weave
a little oopsie…see the line??? This afternoon I tied on and started weaving on the Diversified Plain Weave warp I had prepared a while ago. DPW is an interesting weave structure consisting of two different yarns, generally a thick yarn and a much finer one in both warp and weft. The thick yarn is what…