Category: rough sleying
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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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Rough Sleying Again
Someone told me that my last blog post didn’t make any sense, so I will try again. If, as part of tying off your warp chain you tie the four ‘arms’ of the cross (X), untie them before you begin spreading the warp chain to the width required in the reed. In this photo you…
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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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Just Do
I am having a much harder time than I had hoped getting back into the swing of studio things. Yesterday turned into a ‘people first’ kind of day although I did get my cheque book balanced and some bills paid. But I ran out of energy by 4:30 so we had an early dinner and…
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Rough
Here is warp number 3 (as in counting down from the 8 I had left to do after I thought I was done with them) rough sleyed ready to be beamed. How much longer does it take to rough sley instead of use a raddle? I don’t know. I haven’t used a raddle for 15…