Category: warping valet
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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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Under Tension
Warping Valet First thing this morning I logged onto Facebook and immediately saw two posts by two ‘new’ weavers, each one complaining about nasty, snarled, tangled warps. I didn’t read the answers being given. Each person was giving their best answer – and most of them had pearls of wisdom in them. However. However.…
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Under Tension
Warping Valet First thing this morning I logged onto Facebook and immediately saw two posts by two ‘new’ weavers, each one complaining about nasty, snarled, tangled warps. I didn’t read the answers being given. Each person was giving their best answer – and most of them had pearls of wisdom in them. However. However.…
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Under Tension
Warping Valet First thing this morning I logged onto Facebook and immediately saw two posts by two ‘new’ weavers, each one complaining about nasty, snarled, tangled warps. I didn’t read the answers being given. Each person was giving their best answer – and most of them had pearls of wisdom in them. However. However.…
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Under Tension
Warping Valet First thing this morning I logged onto Facebook and immediately saw two posts by two ‘new’ weavers, each one complaining about nasty, snarled, tangled warps. I didn’t read the answers being given. Each person was giving their best answer – and most of them had pearls of wisdom in them. However. However.…
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Warping Valet/Trapeze
There is a perception that in order to use a warping valet/trapeze you have to have a lot of room. I use one in large part because I have very little room. You can see in this photo that I have another loom in front of the Leclerc. There is – at best – three…
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It Should Not Be Hard
Weaving should not be hard, but like any new skill there may be wallowing at the beginning of the learning curve. Here is a warp during beaming. No I do not routinely beam front to back. What I do is use a reed to space the warp out to its intended width, beam, then thread,…
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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…
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Void, Voided
click photo to biggify So much for a nice stretch of purely studio deadlines. Between my mom and both of us, we are having Life Happening. It started with Doug’s surgery to fix an annoying problem, then my putting my back ‘out’. Mom is having some health issues and between the three of us we…
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Scary Things
Yes, this warp might appear to be a little scary. Click to biggify and see just how tangled it is! But these tangles don’t scare me. When I took the first photo, it was about 12 minutes to 6. It took about 5 or 6 minutes to get the warp looking like this: And by…