Hello,
I fell in love with the light yellows of Stripes, rather to my surprise. After I finished the class exercise and some color experiments, I cut off the cloth. Then, I made two small warp chains. Each chain has 8 ends of Pale Limette (PL). My idea was to frame the towels in PL. I used the directions in Asymmetry as a guide for adding the new yarns to each side of the existing warp. I had some trouble weighting them in the back, but after several tries came up with a solution (I only have 2 empty cones and needed 4. I unrolled the small amount of leftover Christmas wrap to get the cardboard tub on which it was rolled and whacked off two pieces, each as long as the cone it would be snugged inside of). I tied on to the cloth apron, making sure (the second time) that I tied the new ends in to the cloth apron rod by themselves rather than as part of an existing bout. I started and started weaving. Everything was fine until I advanced the warp and then it went wonky and nothing I have tried has helped. I tried:
- Loosening the wind-on tension, which I tend to like tight. It didn't help and I didn't really think it would.
- Putting "S" hooks on the cones in back and then removing them. I thought removing them might help. I didn't.
- Opening up my throw even more than normal..
- Beating harder than normal.
- Beating lighter than normal.
- Hemstitch and start again. This was okay for a few picks and then the ends starting creeping up again.

I'm at a loss. Other than cut the PL ends off, I don't know what to do. Logic says the problem is in the back with the cones/tubes setup. Is there another way to tension? Because the tube doesn't fit properly in the cone, could that be causing the problem?

I'll upload wonky fell pictures:

Wonky fell, front of loom - https://ibb.co/KyfWBBb.
Closeup of wonky fell - right side - https://ibb.co/f1k3XDP
Closeup of wonky fell - left side - https://ibb.co/Gcf0XzW
Back of loom - https://ibb.co/G9Dmjdd

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Cynthia

Cynthia, when you pet the warp threads in front of the beater do your new selvedges feel the same as the center, tighter, looser?

Your cones should not be touching the floor but hanging freely, as their weight is on the floor, not the threads.

Try tucking something like folded up paper towel into the cloth beam just under the selvedge area to pull the edges toward the breast beam to even the fell line out.

Good luck

Hi Cheryl,
Thank you so much!

When I petted the warp threads they seemed pretty evenly tensioned. That was after tie-on. When I have some loom time later today, I'll pet them again, adjust the cones to dangle, and try the paper towel fix. That's brilliant, btw.

I'll report back after I've had some time to experiment.

Kindest regards,
Cynthia

Hi Cheryl,
I did a few things:
- The tension on the center section felt like the rest of the warp when I petted it, but it was clearly concave, so I hug s-hooks from one set of Pale Limette zingers to the other in hopes of adding a little more tension to that area and bringing it "up" to flatten the fell line in the center. It seemed to help a little, but not much. I didn't have enough s-hooks to add a second one to each of the first ones.
- I folded two paper towels and experimented with placement under the right and left edges. I don't think I'm doing it correctly because it didn't help. It looked like it might help until I tightened the warp enough to get shed. I may be inserting the towel incorrectly. I've attached pictures. Please let me know if I need to adjust the towels.
- I adjusted the cones to hang without touching the floor.

I am using the 1-2 reed threading for 8/2 cotton at 18 epi. The weft looks really cramped in the new warp, but straightens out more-or-less in the original warp. I'm wondering if I should have sleyed the reed at 12 epi for the edging. I think part of why it's raising up is that there just isn't room enough. That did not happen on the original warp for the class exercise, only on the new threads. I may try opening it up to 12 epi just maybe on the outermost 4 threads, but not tonight because I'm frustrated and no good will come of it.

I've attached links to pictures:
https://ibb.co/9q1n3GB
https://ibb.co/9tV2vBm
https://ibb.co/M57v9td
https://ibb.co/THfbLZP

I can't seem to figure out how to attach the pictures themselves.

Thank you again for the suggestions. My guess is that I'm just doing them wrong.

Kindest regards,
Cynthia

Cynthia, I would fold the paper towels into a smaller thicker little package. Also, insert it under the threads where they wrap around at the cloth beam, not at the wooden breast beam. I've done this many times LOL. 18epi shouldn't be too cramped, even when sleying 1,2 etc.

For the photo to show inside the thread here, choose the option that contains "url" at the beginning and end.

Hi Cheryl,

Thank you so much. A day when I can't tell the cloth beam from the breast beam is not the day I should be at the loom trying to solve a problem or learn a new technique. Yesterday was just such a day.

Thanks for the photo uploading help, too. I couldn't get anything to upload for the longest time, then it occurred to me to try PNG instead of JPG and, yippee, it worked.

Kindest regards,
Cynthia