Category: warp winding
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Seeing Red
Three warps. Three red warps. Turns out my stock of 2/8 cotton is much more depleted than I remembered and what I have the most of is red. So the next two towel warps on the Fanny will be red based. It’s really hard to tell from the photo but the top most warp has…
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Never Doubt…
…the wisdom of the universe… I haven’t used a mill in any serious way for…decades. I used to have a small table top mill that I would wind warps on, on the dining room table. But I gave that up when I switched to sectional warping and never looked back. When I did need to…
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Warp Packing
From time to time I get emails from new weavers wondering what is going ‘wrong’ with their projects. There are so many ways for things to be ‘wrong’ and sometimes it is a matter of scale Many people use warp packing that is simply too weak for a longer warp. While light weight paper or…
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Thought Squirrels
Once again the camera can’t capture the subtleties of the colours in the warp. You’ll just have to try to see them in person? 🙂 Click on the photo to biggify…. When things are going smoothly and only surface attention is required for the actual weaving the thought squirrels sometimes start chasing themselves around in…
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Be Not Afraid
painted warp being beamed warp is twisted and tangled after de-tangling done – about 70 minutes from start to finish I am not exactly sure when I started working, let’s say about 9:40. Between then and 10:55 (you might just be able to see the clock if you biggify the photo) I rough sleyed, beamed,…
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Be Not Afraid
painted warp being beamed warp is twisted and tangled after de-tangling done – about 70 minutes from start to finish I am not exactly sure when I started working, let’s say about 9:40. Between then and 10:55 (you might just be able to see the clock if you biggify the photo) I rough sleyed, beamed,…
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Be Not Afraid
painted warp being beamed warp is twisted and tangled after de-tangling done – about 70 minutes from start to finish I am not exactly sure when I started working, let’s say about 9:40. Between then and 10:55 (you might just be able to see the clock if you biggify the photo) I rough sleyed, beamed,…
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Musing on Warping
As I was beaming the next warp (that I will leave on the loom for some simple and fast weaving when I get home) I started thinking about the latest questions on the internet from new weavers running into all sorts of difficulties getting a warp onto their loom. I would really like to reassure…
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Rough Sleying
After winding the second half of the warp, I rough sleyed it. I prefer to use a reed rather than a raddle to spread the warps out. In this case I wound two ends at a time for 16 epi, so the warp went into the raddle four ends every second dent in an 8…
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Winding a Warp
I have no doubt posted about warp winding before but not everyone new to my blog will want to dig through all (nearly!) 1000 posts to find the information so I thought I’d approach the topic again, perhaps adding more information than I’ve included before. While my board is rated to 13 meters, I really…