BA-10. Blankets at the loom, part B
Basics Project #3: Blankets
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1h 56m
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
- "Something’s wrong with my shed"
- Cutting off and fringing
- Blanket fulling
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- An approach for improving the threading of a draft
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