I have bought a secondhand Glimakra Standard and avidly watched Jane’s videos on warping, where to put the lease sticks, where to put the raddle etc. However, the space between the back beam and the heddles is so large that none of the techniques in your videos seem to work. Have you got any tips on the best way to warp a Glimakra Standard please?

Hi Joan, I've never warped a Glimakra and have only seen pictures of them on the web! I see what you mean... hopefully, there is someone out there who has some experience with your loom that can suggest a way to adapt the warping method that Jane has taught us your loom. 🤞

Hi Joan, I've been really happy warping my Glimakra Standard using Jane's approach. I put the lease sticks thru the warp's cross, and suspend them on string that I tie around the middle of the uprights just behind the harnesses. The strings then run parallel to the floor, thru the lease sticks, and tie around the back beam. My lease sticks are as long as the width of my loom - it did not work well when I tried shorter lease sticks. With the full-length lease sticks tied this way, they can slide along the strings from the back beam almost up to the harnesses.

Hi Sarah - many thanks for this. I have tried this and found it very useful, but still not sure where the best place is to put the raddle. It just seems too far from the back beam to the harnesses to attach it to the harnesses. All of Jane's looms seem to have a much smaller distance than the Glimakra which is a big boy! Where would you normally fix your raddle?

I too have a Glimåkra standard loom. I was taught in college to warp front to back and it has worked okay for me but I see the advantages to back to front. I agree with Jane's rational for it. I also wonder about making a raddle and where to place it.

Don't ask me why, as I have never owned a Swedish style loom, but I have the little book called " Dress Your Loom The Vavstuga Way".

It is chock full of photographs showing the process from preparing your Swedish Loom for beaming, to the actual steps for warping the loom "back to front".

They use two really long sticks which sit on the breast beam, through the harness and then sit on the back beam. They lay a reed on the sticks at the back of the loom...clamp it down and use it like a raddle to pre-sley the warp. You can use a more widely spaced reed here with more threads in each dent.

The lease sticks are also resting on the sticks between the back of the shafts and the reed. You could definitely use a raddle in place of a reed here and continue on as Jane shows. It's a bit more complicated if you're using an actual reed as you need to pull loops (warp pairs) through the reed, then when you finish with all of the warp pairs you have to slide the tie on bar through the loops.

HTH