Hi,
I am threading the heddles on a 8 shaft Jane loom, working in Plain Weave.
The warp is a 3-color sequence. I'm about 75% through threading.
I just found a group of 3 threads that I missed from the lease sticks, in the correct color order, close to the beginning.
Can I add 3 heddles near the front (123, or 234) as long as I keep my sequence, since it's PW?
(Otherwise I have 218 threads to move. )
Thanks,
Julia K in Montana
Hi Julia,
As you missed three threads and plainweave is a two thread sequence, adding in the three threads will throw off the plainweave sequence. But don't despair, you can just go in the other direction with the correction that needs to be done. So use repair heddles to bring in the three forgotten threads, then rethread from the repair heddles back to the beginning, which you said you were close to.
Alternatively, you could just hang those three threads off the back beam and pretend they never happened. If they aren't absolutely necessary for width or patterning, you can just ignore them. Your choice.
Happy weaving!