03. Tablecloths at the loom, part B
Basics Project #1: Tablecloths • 1h 54m
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 and fixing mistakes
- Unweaving
- Cleaning a bad shed
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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...
