Category: warping valet
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Rolling Along
I kind of surprised myself last night when I managed to dress the loom all by myself – and the help of the various systems I’ve put in place over the years. I doubt I could have accomplished it at all without the warping valet. 🙂 It truly is the most forgiving of helping hands…
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Scary Warps
bags of painted warps to be woven Someone commented on Weavolution that when she saw the picture of the orange/green warp on my blog she thought it looked scary. Actually that warp was rather contained in comparison to some especially after they’ve been kicking around my storage room for a while, getting pawed through, considered…
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Weaving Efficienies, part II
option #2 treadling/tie-up Last night I dressed the small loom with a placemat warp and kept an eye on the clock to see if my new tweaked process was going to be faster than my previous method. I dress the loom back to front, using a reed to rough-sley the warp. When I got an…
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Weaving Efficiencies
Industrial cone winder – winding off of large mill cones to smaller re-sale cones. From time to time people will comment to me about how productive I am. I’m sure that some of them think I’m chained to the loom for 14 hours a day. :} The fact of the matter is that – since…
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Of Faith and Finesse
First the finesse…. I am always looking for new ways to do things that will either allow me to do what’s necessary in less time, or cause the least amount of angst whilst doing it. While whining to a friend this morning about that pesky linen, which was causing me the most grief not in…
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Towels – Again
I got the tea towel warp beamed this afternoon. There were a few Operator Errors involved in this project – already. For some reason it appears that I can’t add. I’d intended this warp to be about 23 inches wide. It’s 25. It shouldn’t be that difficult, but there are days when my brain simply…
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The Dangers of Distraction
Kerstin has been blogging about the dangers of distraction and not using one’s brain here: http://3.ly/kqh Today I found myself subject to the same sense of distraction while beaming another rayon chenille warp. I find I really do get much better tension if I use the warping valet, so even though they are just a…
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Equipment Failure
I admit it – I expect my equipment to perform under what some would label ‘adverse conditions’. So it was with the warping valet at the AVL last night. Now the bar mounted in the ceiling was not originally intended to support a lot of weight. It was originally intended to get repair ends up…
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Tea Towels for Tien
So here is the first warp for Tien to weave on when she arrives. Once in a while I do a time study to see how long a particular task takes me. I do this for many reasons – pricing – partly – so I know how much money I should be charging for my…
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Moving Onwards
It was only when I started to write this post that I realized I had taken a nearly identical picture for the blog only a few weeks ago! I cut the Diversified Plain Weave afghans off the loom this morning and started beaming a shawl warp. The warp is made by dressing two scarf warps…