BW-15. Bandloom #3 – treadle
Bands Section #2: Vävstuga bandloom
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1h 3m
What this project will teach you:
- Winding your warp on our warping mill
- Chaining off and reversing the chain
- Beaming from a warp chain using the "twist" method
- Turning the bandloom into a trapeze
- Introduction to the lease stick holder attachment
- Threading from a cross on lease sticks
- Tying onto the front of the loom
- Spreading the warp
- Moving the split
- Fine tuning the tension
- Introduction to our treadle
- Review of hand position for efficient weaving
- Taking care near the end of the warp
- Removing treadle for the very end
- Review making a clean ending using the heddle method
Up Next in Bands Section #2: Vävstuga bandloom
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BW-16. Bandloom #4 – Mora hairband
What this project will teach you:
- Winding a longer warp than Band #2 directly on the loom
- Review of beaming using the "twist" method
- Lassoing the pattern threads
- Weaving the "bars" according to the chart
- Attaching the pattern lifting lashes
- Attaching the pattern lowering lashes
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BW-17. Bandloom #5 – classic pick-up
What this project will teach you:
- Winding the band warp on the mill
- Chaining the warp, then reversing the chain
- Review of beaming with frying pan, the "twist" method
- Review of threading with lease sticks, according to the chart
- Tensioning onto the front of the loom
- Spreading the warp
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BW-18. Bandloom #6 – rigid heddle demo
What this project will teach you:
- How pattern threads sit in the rigid heddle on the bandloom
- Warping at the mill, threading at the table
- Weaving 6 pick cycle row by row
- Cleaning the pattern sheds easily
- Relationship to Leksand bandloom
