12 July, 2010

dressing the loom

heddles

The shawl i'm making is 480 ends, at 16 ends per inch. That's ALOT of ends, and they all have to get threaded individually through their own heddle which is what controls whether they go up or down during weaving. It took me all day sunday to thread them. Now I have to sley them through the reed... which just means i have to thread them through that now too. AHHHHHH. Hopefully the shawl will weave smoothly, i'm sneakingly afraid i did something wrong at some point, and that the warp will get all tangled as it unwinds off the back beam....

back beam

45inch leclerc loom

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