Category: warping valet
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Getting From Here to There
A friend asked if I could do a video of how I got the warp from the rough sleying into the loom. Not having a camera operator to follow along as I did it, I just took some still photos, hoping that will be enough information to help understand my process. The first photo shows…
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Getting From Here to There
A friend asked if I could do a video of how I got the warp from the rough sleying into the loom. Not having a camera operator to follow along as I did it, I just took some still photos, hoping that will be enough information to help understand my process. The first photo shows…
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Getting From Here to There
A friend asked if I could do a video of how I got the warp from the rough sleying into the loom. Not having a camera operator to follow along as I did it, I just took some still photos, hoping that will be enough information to help understand my process. The first photo shows…
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Tangles
2/8 natural cotton looped over the apron rod. There is enough twist in this yarn that once let off tension it will tend to pigtail or twist back on itself, causing a rather distressing looking mess. However…. in spite of the warp looking rather nasty at the lease sticks, it took about 5 minutes at…
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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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Slip Sliding
back to the Fanny and warping valet warp wound of two 2/8 cotton with one strand of variegated cotton flake ready to transfer the cross – the lease sticks aren’t going anywhere so long as tension is kept on the warp In spite of a whole lot of distractions I did manage to rough sley,…
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MIMO part II
Sometimes people comment that they would love to use a valet but they don’t have any room for one. Not having any room is partly why I use one. In the first photo you can see how closely to the back of the AVL my work table is. It is so close that in order…
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Helping ‘Hand’
Sommar asked for more information on how I use the warping valet. No, you can’t just have a single anchor point. If the dowel isn’t anchored at each end, it will pivot or rotate at the centre and be a real nuisance. So whether you have solid braces or chains hanging from the ceiling, there…
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You Say Toh-mah-to
It seems as though there are days when controversy rears its head. Most days I can hit ‘delete’ or ‘next’ and not pay too much mind. But other days? My first introduction to weaving heresy was when I ordered my AVL Production Loom. The hue and cry that went up! Then when I added the…
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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…