Threading the Heddles
I’ve begun threading my heddles with my double weave design – rock weave after the frustrating warping process. It’s going nicely. However it isn’t a straight draw so I really have to keep track of the threading plan. I’ve divided the threading into about nine sections and I pull out all the heddles, on the designated shafts, that I need for each section as I thread. Then I check each section before moving onto the next one.
It’s going to take many hours to thread but with great music in the background it will be enjoyable. Just hope my maths will be right.
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Oh, it’s going to be SOOOOO pretty. I’ve been lurking and watching (new weaver here) and LOVING all of your work. Can’t wait to see how this turns out.
Yummy. I can’t wait to follow your project!
I hope your maths is better than mine! Staying calm and relaxed but alert helps.
I had a similar experience during the weaving for my last exhibition. I warped up 17 metres of 36 epi in a textured silk I had never woven with before except foe=r a tny sample to check for details! Being used to working with painted warp wools, I worked threading front to back and had the most awful mess, finally sorted it with great exercising of patience I had only ever dreamed of experiencing , the started weaving to to find that the whole lot collapsed when I moved the warp on because of the messy way I had finally wound it on.
After 30 years of weaving I was back at square one on the idiot scale. Its a great lesson for the lazy weaver. I now follow Laura Fry’s advice of warping back to front. I simply had got lazy working with forgiving wool which stretches and really only gives pain when it fluffs up and catches as you wind it on.
I feel your pain hope it is going well now.
Oh an addition, the next thing I did was to dye the weft, a smooth shiny silk. Left it drying when I went out for something. I remember commenting to a friend about how wild the wind had become, not thinking about home at all until I got home to find the weft had dressed the trees around the garden!
A compensation was that it was sooooo beautiful to see my trees sparkling with a beautiful dyed shiny web, lucky it was such slippery yarn it wond up fast – mind you that was also why the choke ties didn’t work!!!