02. Tablecloths at the loom, part A
Basics Project #1: Tablecloths • 1h 49m
What this project will teach you:
- How to dress the loom from the very beginning
- A systematic approach to the process you will use for every piece you weave
Topics include:
- Tube winding
- Warping mill
- Tying off at the mill
- Chaining off
- How to make choke ties
- Preparing the loom for counterbalance tie-up
- Setting up support sticks
- Warp chain in beater & tying lease sticks
- Pre-sleying
- Loops onto the bar
- Tensioning the warp without a trapeze
- Trapeze
- Moving the lease sticks and cleaning warp loops
- Spreading the warp
- Beaming with the trapeze
- Tying beater back and cutting the loop
- Threading
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03. Tablecloths at the loom, part B
Topics include:
- Checking your work
- Adding heddles
- Fixing threading mistakes
- Bundling heddles
- Sleying the reed
- Tying onto the tie bar and "magic string"
- Counterbalance tie-up
- Make lamms even
- Checking the sheds
- Winding a quill
- Advancing a warp and bench height
- Weaving demo ... -
04. Planning tablecloths
What this project will teach you:
- How to plan a project, including calculating the amount of thread needed
- How to maintain really good recordsTopics include:
- What yarns will we use?
- About metric reeds
- Describing the cloth
- Calculating weave length
- Warp quantity calculations -
05. Monday drafting
What this project will teach you:
- How to depict a fabric on paper showing the interlacement of the threads
- How to understand the threading, treadling and tie-up components of a draft
- How to analyze fabrics, one step at a timeTopics include:
- First drawdown: analyzing the threading
- Fir...
