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S1 -Episode 3 - Good Weaving Technique
Season 1 - Foundation on Handweaving
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I appreciate all the errors I'm making because i'm learning sooooo much!
Could use some help with a tension issue. I am doing the stripe sample project and somehow missed one of the stripes and didn't notice it until I had already loaded the loom and wound it all on the back beam.. So I made a 10 strand mini warp and set it all up and weighted it off the back. I can't seem to find the right amount of weight to put on it. My warp thread as it hits the 10 threads is not sitting flush with the rest of the warp thread, it is bowing towards the backbeam (frowning). This makes me think I have to much weight on the warp hanging off the back, but in fact the threads are looser than the rest of the warp. I can't seem to find the right amount of weight to make the warp threads sit evenly. Any tips?
thanks Leslie
Hi Leslie, first question…… is your missing stripe on the selvedge or in the middle? Second question, was it tied on with the same tension as the rest of the warp and the third question - standing at the back of the loom, can you draw any slack out of your mini warp?
1/ it's in the middle and is 10 threads.
2/I'm not sure how to answer this question as there was no tension on it when I tied it to the front beam. I threw the mini warp over the back beam, tied it on to the front beam along with all the rest of the warp and THEN put weight on it over the back.
3/ Yes I can pull it more taut from the back of the loom. This of course causes the frown of the weft over the 10 threads to be very exaggerated. I can also see in the few inches already woven that the 10 threads look different. The warp is more pronounced and poking through the weft more.
Do I just keep adding more weight until there is no slack left?
Thanks Sandra!!
OK - have you tried using less weight? I wish I could stand by your loom and see and feel what was happening! The fact that you feel the situation would get worse if you added more weight makes me wonder about using less. Do you have a little rod that you could use in the manner that Jane uses for supplementary weft? That would help all 10 ends have even tension. Watch Season 3; Episode 8:2 at the 1:15 minute mark to see Jane setting that up at the back of the loom. Hopefully we can come up with something that works!
Oh my goodness Sandra I wish you could be standing at my loom as well!
I watched the bit you suggested and the only issue is that my warp is hanging off the back of the loom and not wound on the back beam so I don't understand how I could use the rod. I would love to send a picture but I see there is a change to the forum and I don't see where I can upload a picture to my comment. Maybe I'll try a new thread and see if I can add a picture.
What would happen if you looped 5 ends around the rod one way and 5 the other? What I’m thinking is that because there are ten ends, for some reason the tension on all of them isn’t the same. Another place to watch Jane is when she changes the zinger in Season 2: Episode 2 at about the 32 minute mark. She hangs that mini warp off the back of the loom - I have possibly made the wrong assumption that you had already looked at that lesson.
I've watched the episodes suggested and the Season 2 one was super helpful. I was being to timid with weighting the warp on the back. I got bold and put a fair bit of weight on it and it straightened out what I now realize is called the fell line. My weighting set up isn't as slick as the cones but I figured out it. Thanks for all your input Sandra.
Leslie
Terri R Rostad
Sandra
having a hard time getting a balance of warp to weft. 24 epi my weft is about 30. try to beat softer but no matter what i can seem to get it balanced.
2 ends per inch in a 12 dent reed.
help please :)
What are your warp and weft yarns?
What is your beating technique? eg. Change shed, throw pick, beat, while keeping beater forward - change sheds, push beater back...etc. It does sound like you're beating a little too vigorously .
Yes I have been beating correctly, but I do tend to have a heavy had in many of the things I do so I will try again to lighten my beat . I am using 8/2 cotton Thank you