09. Blankets at the loom, part A
Basics Project #3: Blankets • 2h 6m
What this project will teach you:
- How to weave a wide warp
- How to achieve a soft beat
- How to work with double stranded weft
- How to twist the fringe in opposite directions
- How to achieve subtle shading throughout the cloth
Topics include:
- Setting up the loom and weaving
- Ball winding
- Warp winding
- First warp chain
- Tying the first warp chain with choke ties
- Winding the second blanket chain
- Second warp chain
- Preparing the warp for beaming
- Pre-sleying
- Preparing to beam and trapeze review
- Moving the lease sticks behind the reed
- Beaming the warp
- Tying beater back and cutting loop
- Threading
- Sleying the reed
- Tying on to the front tie bar
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10. Blankets at the loom, part B
Topics include:
- Upper tie-up
- Lower tie-up
- Checking the shed
- Winding balls and quills
- Blanket weave demo — first blanket
- Fixing a threading mistake near the edge of the warp or with a double heddle
- Blanket stripe design — second blanket
- Weaving the second blanket and sample
- "Some... -
11. Planning blankets
What this project will teach you:
- How to plan your blanket project, including calculating the amount of yarn needed
- How to document the project, creating a project sheet for your binderTopics include:
- What yarns will we use?
- What reed will we use?
- Describing the cloth
- Warp quantity... -
12. Wednesday drafting
What this project will teach you:
- An approach for improving the threading of a draft
- A review and comparison of multiple variations of twillsTopics include:
- Page 3 exercises
- What is this fabric going to look like? Deriving the drawdown
- Same warp, different variations
- Summary diagra...
