BW-17. Bandloom #5 – classic pick-up
Bands Section #2: Vävstuga bandloom
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1h 21m
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
- Installing the pattern spreader attachment, and pattern
- Separating the pattern threads
- Arranging the pattern threads in the comb
- Arranging the 3 layers of warp at the end pins
- Assembling the "puller downer" cords
- Review of the Vävstuga quill lock
- How to find the correct starting shed
- Picking and weaving the pattern row by row
- Un-weaving a mistake
Up Next in Bands Section #2: Vävstuga bandloom
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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
