Category: fixing threading errors
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Still Not Perfect
The current series of warps are…complex. Today, after several days delay (due to physical maintenance and body protesting said maintenance) I finally started weaving the next warp. I wasn’t pleased with the beginning – sewing the hem would cut off part of the motif at the top and bottom, and I knew I wasn’t…
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Still Not Perfect
The current series of warps are…complex. Today, after several days delay (due to physical maintenance and body protesting said maintenance) I finally started weaving the next warp. I wasn’t pleased with the beginning – sewing the hem would cut off part of the motif at the top and bottom, and I knew I wasn’t…
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Lessons Learned
Just finished weaving the lime green towels, and wanted to check a few things. The first 5 towels on this warp were woven with a natural white cotton slub plyed with a ‘natrual’ (beige) linen yarn. This yarn is quite textured, and I was essentially weaving natural on natural. When I finished those yesterday,…
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Mastery
Yellow arrow shows where the mistake is Pulling the thread out of the heddle from behind in order to thread into the proper heddle Mastering a craft doesn’t mean you don’t make mistakes. Mastering a craft is partly about recognizing when a mistake has been made, and knowing how to fix it. Twill block…
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Tracking
I’m always looking for ways to make things easier, simpler, efficient. Today I was threading a warp on 8 shafts – two blocks of twill, 40 ends per block. Too many ends to easily see if I’d done enough – too little? too many? Counting out the groups of four to make sure I had…
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Oops…
There is a meme on Facebook that says that a master has failed more than the student has tried. Photographic proof that I am batting 1000 in terms of making mistakes setting up the AVL! Since I beam sectionally (most times) on the AVL, I rarely have precisely the number of ends that I need.…
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Oops…
There is a meme on Facebook that says that a master has failed more than the student has tried. Photographic proof that I am batting 1000 in terms of making mistakes setting up the AVL! Since I beam sectionally (most times) on the AVL, I rarely have precisely the number of ends that I need.…
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Forest Part Deux
It took a bit of looking, but with the rest of the warp secure, I was able to pick through the repeat more easily than if all the threads were just ‘loose’ in the heddles. By having them through the reed, there was less room for them to tangle and get out of sorts while…
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Forest
700+ ends in 700+ heddles…and somewhere in the last 6 inches is a threading error. Everything was going tickity-boo until the second half of the last full repeat when – instead of an even number of ends at the end of the repeat, I had an uneven number of ends. So, somewhere in that forest…
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Oopsie
Sh*t, as they say, happens. The benefit of experience is that you – generally – recognize it more quickly when it does and know how to best fix it. I haven’t used a 12 dent reed for a while and it’s surprising how much finer it is than, say, 8. I caught myself a few…