Category: reed as raddle
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Peter Collingwood’s No Math Centering method
Edited to remove bad ASCII art and hopefully be clearer… As a brand new weaver I had the good fortune to take a workshop with Peter Collingwood. He showed us how to centre a warp in the reed without using any math. I have never forgotten it and use it every time I dress the…
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Different Strokes
People adapt their processes to suit their personal preferences, the yarn they are using and their equipment. I tend to weave within a fairly narrow range of yarns. I’m very comfortable with them, know their limitations, how they will consistently behave. (Doesn’t mean they are always the same, just reasonably consistent!) The above photo is…
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Different Strokes
People adapt their processes to suit their personal preferences, the yarn they are using and their equipment. I tend to weave within a fairly narrow range of yarns. I’m very comfortable with them, know their limitations, how they will consistently behave. (Doesn’t mean they are always the same, just reasonably consistent!) The above photo is…
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Rough Sleying
When some people find out my preference for spreading the warp to it’s weaving width is rough sleying there can be a variety of reactions. One is, why do I ‘waste’ time sleying the reed twice? If I’m sleying the reed anyway, why don’t I just cut the loops and dress the loom front to…
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Cross Purposes
One of the things we forgot to tape for the DVD The Efficient Weaver was how I rough sley the reed as a raddle and how it gets put into the loom. Since someone also asked about transferring the cross, here is a photo essay showing those steps. Laying the reed across a couple of…