Category: doubling stand
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Of Faith and Finesse
First the finesse…. I am always looking for new ways to do things that will either allow me to do what’s necessary in less time, or cause the least amount of angst whilst doing it. While whining to a friend this morning about that pesky linen, which was causing me the most grief not in…
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Coping with Wire-y Thread
You can clearly see how spring-y this yarn is – it doesn’t want to lie nice and tidy on the bobbins but leaps off at every opportunity. It’s especially difficult when it’s being doubled (click on the doubling stand tag to the right) as each end can spring off in different directions. So the first…
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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Well, hopefully not the Toil and Trouble when you use a doubling stand! I’m trying to use up this extremely fine singles linen Lynn gave me last fall, and the only way it will work on the fine cotton warp is to double it. Yes, it’s that fine! :O However, as I mentioned in a…
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Flowers in November
After the weekly errand run with my mom I came home and finished threading the warp and sleyed it at 24 epi (with the doubled ends counting as ‘one’). This is the very beginning of the weaving. I keep left over weft on bobbins to use for headers, cut lines, testing colours and so on,…