I have wound the warp for the Season 5 Turned Twill project but having a heck of a time trying to balance the loom for weaving. I can't get it into perfect balance. The best I can do is to get the bottom of the shed level across the color sections but the sections to the right side of the loom (the colored stripes) the first, second and third shed top layers of the shed rises higher than the top layer of the tan shed. The bottom layer is level with the rest of the shed.
The first 4 shafts literally crash down to the left unless I support/balance them with empty heddles for shafts 1-4. It seems as though the draft has too much weight on 5,6.7 and 8 and needs balancing with 1, 2, 3 and 4. If I look at my tie up and the draft and visually draw a 4 square tie up grid, I have no heddles in the left bottom quadrant to balance the heddles in the other 3 quadrants.
Help- I'm stuck and can't move forward with this 12 yard warp.
Thank you.
Renee Laffey

I have finished dressing my new to me Schacht floor loom (8). And I've tied up using the base tie-up, season 5. I wove about 8 " switching from x treadles to Y and back again. Its been fun. but now the harnesses are sticking. especially 7 and 8. The Schacht has tracks for the harnesses. I read about spraying silicone in the tracks and checking the loom for "level". Have you heard of a solution, and the company says NOT to use WD 40. What would you suggest, now that I'm already weaving....

thanks, I'll call Schacht tomorrow

I'm sampling weft colors for the first towel. Turquoise, Navy, Marine, Gris. I really like the modernist look of the turned twill on 8. Mixing x and y treadlings of tie up #1
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Sampling weft colors, gris and turquoise. Warp is 8/2 Peacock, Turquoise, Gris, Mint

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Still happily weaving turned twill. And, of course, I had to buy another loom since 8H is floating my boat. And thanks to Jane, I really like those 4 pick patterns.
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I made a few threading errors, but can live with it.
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Wow Kit, you’ve chosen an awesome structure to fall in love with….I love how you are overlapping your blocks on your graphic. Simple stunning….both warps. 🙌

I loved this project so much that I want to do it AGAIN!!! This time, it’s going to be on my Megado Computer Dobby. Any chance anyone has an existing WIF file already created for this project?

Jane, would you consider including WIF files for future projects?

Thanks so much for such creative and colorful projects Jane!

Thanks so much for your reply Jane!! I am in awe of your ‘jazz’. I realize now that using the Megado Computer Dobby is physically less demanding but it also limits my ‘jazz’. I’m going to have to learn to ‘think ahead’ when creating the WIF files.

I'm lucky I have 12 shafts with 14 treadles....that allows me to do a lot and the Spring loom isn't so large that the treadling span is a big reach. Turned twill is so easy to jazz up because you really are working with 2 sets of treadles (I can work with 3 because of the extras)....so you just get to have fun playing with 2 things...watching squares appear and then you say...hmmm, maybe a little rectangle would be nice...."oh, that's gorgeous" , I'll turn it into a repetitive sequence...holy, crow, look at that. Oh heck, how long is this.....okay, stop and measure....shit! shoot!, it s 3 yard towel. ha ha.

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I’ll keep you posted on my results with WIF file creations for this project. I’ve just started working with it, but if I can master this one, I’ll let you know!