Category: sleying
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Taming Tangles
Finally started threading the next warp and thought I should remind people how I deal with the warp during that job. I beam on the Megado sectionally. You should be able to see the stick I store the taped sections on to get the cut ends close enough to thread through the heddles. I…
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Another One Bites the Dust
I wasn’t exactly sure how many towels I would get off of this warp – it depends on the length of the repeat. Turns out, it was 22. I was busy with a Zoom guild presentation this morning, but my energy held and I wove one towel after lunch, then went back down after…
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Time/Efficiency
sleying the reed, with bundles of warp ready to be tied on to the apron – about 1″ worth each bundle Video clip Time becomes more precious the less of it we have (paraphrase from Bonnie Raitt) When I first started weaving it was with the intention of earning an income from it. With…
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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…
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Lesson in Humbility
It doesn’t do to get complacent – that’s when you stop thinking. This warp is 36 epi. I have a 9 dent reed, but it’s very old and rough on the top and bottom so when I checked my stored reeds I noticed that I also have a brand new metric reed (35) which is…
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Minimum Input, Maximum Output
Colour gamp test warp One of the things I try to do is have the maximum amount of output for the least amount of input. What that means is that I try to do the various tasks associated with weaving with the fewest hand motions possible. Two years ago, I watched as Syne Mitchell sleyed…
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Sley that Warp
I am always happy to learn a faster more ergonomic/efficient way to approach the various tasks related to weaving. About 18 months or so ago I was visiting with Syne Mitchell and as we chatted she was sleying the reed on her loom. She was doing something completely different than I’d seen anyone else do…
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Ergonomics = Efficiency
This is a photo showing how I catch the shuttle as it exits the shed. The point slips through my index and middle finger, and my thumb acts as a gentle brake on the bobbin so that it doesn’t over run and let off more weft than required. I catch and throw my shuttle this…