Category: live weight tension system
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Sweet
fell is 4 inches from the breast beam with beater forward up against the fell, the web is just touching the shuttle race with the fell now 3 inches from the breast beam… the beater is now ‘scraping’ across the web as the web needs to bend to get by the shuttle race There…
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Tentatively
Since I have only woven one shawl (one third of the warp) I’m only saying that the collar is looking promising. In order to determine if it is going to work the way I want it to, I need to finish this warp and see if it works well, right to the very end. I…
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A Few Picks
The beginning of a new ‘week’, another milestone. I have been so very good about not doing anything I should not during the 6 week healing phase of this journey. Now I’m well past that and getting anxious to reclaim my life. I have boxes and boxes filled with warps waiting to be woven and…
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Simplicity Itself
I think I posted this photo once already but it pretty much shows everything that needs to be seen. The live weight tension system is simplicity itself. One long cord, long enough to wrap around the beam three times which will support the weight of whatever you use to provide the tension (via the weight…
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Scary Warps
Doug has done some more tweaking to the loom and I’m dressing it with another painted warp for scarves so I can double check the live weight tension system, which also seems to need a bit of tweaking. I had wrapped the cable in one direction and found that it was creeping towards the warp.…
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Scary Warps
Doug has done some more tweaking to the loom and I’m dressing it with another painted warp for scarves so I can double check the live weight tension system, which also seems to need a bit of tweaking. I had wrapped the cable in one direction and found that it was creeping towards the warp.…