Category: warp winding
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Winding Warps
Warp winding station Close up of cross More angst on line about warp winding, warp beaming, general dissatisfaction with the whole warp dressing process. Warping is not difficult, but is *is* complex. It is a process fraught with invisible considerations – a combination of physics and well, what appears to be ‘magic’ when someone…
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Who Needs Warp Packing?
A few months ago I was looking for this photo and couldn’t find it. Can’t have anything to do with the literally thousands of photos I have on file, now, could it? Anyway, I don’t remember who was asking for a photo of this, but if I remember I’ll pass it along. There was…
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Weaving
I try to explain how large warp winding equipment is when you scale up. Here are a few photos from the weaving studio/mill we visited in Roberts Creek today. And this one isn’t the biggest. The photo above shows the back where the warp is transferred to the loom beam. And the…
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Side Hustle
I’m thinking I could start a ‘side’ hustle, dressing looms for others. Why not? It’s the part that most people complain about the most. It’s the most time heavy part of the process. I could hire myself out, like itinerant fruit pickers, visit weavers, dress their looms, then move on. Like the tooth fairy, but…
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Untangled
Someone on a weaving group asked recently how to keep two yarns from tangling when winding a warp. Here’s my two cents (partly because I can’t remember which group). I prefer to wind from tubes or cones. I have little posts I can stand the tubes on. My tubes are always set up to unwind…
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Of Knots
“Never use a knot where a bow will do.” Laura-ism #1 I very quickly learned about tying knots and bows. Knots are good. Knots are secure. Knots can be damned hard to un-do. So I learned to not tie a knot unless I really needed to secure something for the duration of whatever it was…
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Belt and Suspenders
A lot on my mind, so warp winding, leaving some ready for me to slam onto the loom when I get home seemed like a good idea. Seems like there is a surge in people interested in weaving happening all over the country, which is great. It also means a flood of people trying to…
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More Than One Way
There is more than one way to skin a cat (sorry cat lovers). It seems everyone thinks their way is the absolutely best way to do what they do. But we are not all equal. Nor do we all want to make the same things. Our looms are different, the yarns we are using are…
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Tweaking
One of the things that has concerned me since the fall in March was the damage done to my spine/hip. Apparently it (the damage) was significant and my body is not happy with me right now. The x-ray also revealed the extent of the damage to my hip from over use. Weaving on a floor…
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Gimpy
After a trip to the chiropractor this morning I’m much more mobile, but still feeling ‘fragile’. Her advice was to walk more than sit, so I wound warps. I’ve got all that yarn that needs to be turned into place mats, after all! So once again showing my warp winding ‘station’. Tubes on spikes feeding…