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LOOM WARPING & TIE-UP x WARPING A LOOM xx LOOM Tip: Add extra warp ends or repair ends by winding warp on an empty cone and then place another cone on top to add both weight and tension. Tip: Suggestions for tying warp ends to the front rod so that you easily get excellent tension with minimum adjustment. Tip: How to warp a loom with a wind-on back beam all by yourself. Tips that will help you avoid or correct winding and threading errors. Shed corrections. Three common problems that cause a poor shed and suggested solutions. An integrated approach to warping. Description of an apparatus you can build to speed up the warping of a 60" loom. A complete guide to warping methods. How to warp a rigid heddle loom. How to correct uneven warp tension. How to correct warp end breakage and treadling errors. Hints for easier warping. How to calculate the sett for a twill. Tip on marking your warp when threading a loom so that interruptions don't cause you to forget where you are. How to thread a blended draft (integrated draft, composite draft). A blended draft is two four-shaft drafts mixed into one eight-shaft threading which can be woven as either of the original components. How to prepare and weave with long warps. Fill-in-the-blanks form to calculate the amount of yarn you need to purchase for your warp and weft. How to make and use warp sizing (warp dressing). Warping for stripes. How to get stripes in the warp chain. How to mend broken warps. A guide to warp tension. Tips on mastering the beaming process, both front-to-back and back-to-front, so warp tension is even. Includes information on warping with slippery or bumpy yarns and on mixing yarn types in a warp. Tip: A continuous role of warping paper is wound on PVC pipe. The pipe is slipped over a dowel that is supported with eye-screws fastened on the back legs of the loom. Paper unrolls easily during warping and can be rewound as weaving progresses. How to "assertively" sley a reed and thread the heddles. An engineer's approach to sectional warping without a spool rack and spools. Method uses a warping reel, tension box and sectional warp beam. Choosing the right reed. How to match sett to yarn and special considerations for mixed warps and textured yarns. Includes a sett chart that gives the order of sleying reeds with 5 to 24 dents per inch. Tip: Use a piece of deep pile carpet on the back beam of a loom when weaving triangular projects to provide enough tension to hold small bouts of warp rather than cutting warps one at a time. Tip: Use key chains to link back rod and apron rod so that warp will spread evenly without bunching. Threading without error. The use of a pin in the threading chart on graph paper and a quick count of threaded heddles helps insure accuracy. Tip: How to mark a reed so it is easy to thread a warp that is centered in the reed. Tip: How to get pieces of paper wound with the warp to start smoothly. Tip: How to weight a loose warp thread with paper clips and duck decoy weights. Tips on sleying a warp made up of several separate chains. Tip on using tape to make it easier to tie a new warp onto a previous warp. Tip: Magnetized threading hook makes threading of steel heddles go faster. Tip: Covered cardboard box with holes in the top serves as quick way to put a short warp on a sectional loom. Simple set of barbells is used to provide weighted warp tension that improves the consistency of beat. Warp sizing, how and when to use it. Includes three size recipes (boiled flour, gelatin and milk). Weaving with multiple tensions. Advice on how to avoid problems from unequal warp tensions caused by fiber differences, structural differences or functional differences. Describes how to warp for separate warp tensioning. A universal tie-up for a four-shaft loom with six or eight treadles. Tip suggests using a bead of glue across a plain-weave header to prevent raveling and to separate projects to be cut off the loom before an entire warp is finished. Advice on how to identify why warp ends are longer on one side of a reed than the other after a warp has been beamed. Tip suggests using talcum power to prevent mohair warp threads from clinging to each other. Broken warp threads, their prevention and cure. Handwoven grass cloth. How to combine cotton or linen warps with dried grass wefts for unusual placemats, runners, purses, etc. An explanation of the symbiotic relationships among warp sett, weave structure, fiber, yarn structure and beat. Includes an exercise to allow comparison of warp setts and the effects of weave structure on warp sett for various yarns. Tip shows threading and tie up for a good selvedge on twill. Tip suggests how to make a string guide for measuring a warp. Mixed warps. How to avoid seersuckering, determine the sett and reed, prepare the warp, choose the weft and select a weave structure. Advice on dummy warps and ways to save on loom waste. How to rearrange a loom tieup to make treadling easier. Tip shares an easy and accurate way to sley a reed when warping a loom from back to front. Suggestions for using dummy warps successfully. Tip shows an alternative to a weaver's knot to use when joining a short length of warp to new warp ends. Tip shows how to construct a multispindle spool holder for winding a multicolor warp. Tie-ins, economical, fast and easy. How to tie a new warp to a dummy warp. Sketches show how to make a tie-in knot. Tip on how to save warp successfully with a minimum of waste. How to use circular warping to preserve the sequence of space-dyed yarns so that an ikat-like effect can be created in weaving. Tip on using plastic hair rollers with fine teeth and elastic closures to hold replacement warp ends. Tip shows how to make a jig to keep weighted warp threads from tangling. Tip explains how to use short lengths of expansion springs when beaming fine cotton. How to modify a door frame to serve as a temporary warping board for making rug-sized warps. Warping the loom from the back. Detailed explanation begins with making a warp on a warping board and goes through getting ready to thread the heddles. Tip shows how to replace snitch-knot treadle tie-ups with beads and cords that make changing tie-ups easier. Threading the loom that has been warped from the back. A selection of tips for making loom warping easier. How to prevent twisting when paddle warping. Tip suggests use of bubble wrap to cover bumps and knots of cloth beam tie on. Tip describes how to use Velcro to control loose ends when warping several yarns or colors. Mini-bungee cords recommended to temporarily attach lease sticks to a loom during warping. Making a warp with a stationary paddle. Warping reels. How they work and how they differ from a warping board. Tip tells how to modify a beater to insert a rod that keeps yarns separated when they are sleyed two ends per dent. Tip recommends depth finders used by ice fishermen as warp weights. Tip shows how to make a cross holder for use when tying a new warp onto a previous one. Warping and weaving with fine yarns. Tip urges slipping, not cutting, a warp off a warping board. Tip on using a plastic knitting bobbin to replace a broken warp end. Strategy for checking a loom to detect threading errors. Lease-stick holder which clamps on the loom beam. Tip on marking reeds to keep your place when warping and doing inlay. Tip for keeping track of warp length of several projects on a single warping board. How to use hemostats as warp thread weights. How to use a magnetic board to keep track of threading for a complicated pattern in fine threads. Twelve tips for efficient warping. Marking thread on a heddle bar makes an easy way to check a misthreading. How to use floating warp threads to produce an excellent selvedge. How to use wooden shims to tighten loose selvedges caused by a center build-up on a long warp. Pull-down vinyl window shades recommended as warp spacers. Tip suggests using vinyl window shade as packing when winding a warp on the beam. Tip suggests using clip clothespins to mark last threaded heddle at the end of a complicated repeat. Tip for handling supplementary or replacement warp ends and hanging them with suitable weights so the yarn will feed without tangling. Tip suggests a technique for keeping warp tight as it winds on the warp beam. Recipe for a warp dressing for hairy or fragile linen. Calculating the sett. How to determine how close to space warp yarns when working out a new cloth. Tip suggests using two magnets to make a weight to tension a temporary or loose warp end. Tip suggests lightly starching warp chains for closely set double weave or warp rep warps. Tip suggests using S hooks to weight loose warp ends. How to use a metal board with magnetic place markers as a guide when threading a loom with a complex warp. A new multi-harness drawdown technique. How to speed tie-up for a counter march loom. Two techniques are suggested, one using ropes and pins, and the second using chains. Warping adaptations for fine warps. Warping in color. Tips on weaning away from white warps. Easy warping without a cross. How to warp with a paddle-beam without paper. Part 1. How to warp with a paddle beam without paper. Part 2. How to change warp yarns here and there in a long warp or replace a missing warp end. Technique uses two empty yarn cones as warp holders/weights. Supplementary warps. Instructions for supplementary warps placed between regular warp threads, either on a second warp beam or using a weighted-warp system. Includes suggestions on yarn choices and designing. Working with random warp. Suggestions on color, texture, weave structure, yarn selection, sett and reed choice, the warping process and solutions to common tension problems. Taming a long warp. How to wind a warp of more than 25 yards on a loom. Suggestions for long warps them to produce a wide variety of fabrics by changing treadling, textures and colors of weft. Helpful hints for weaving with fine threads and some thoughts on weaving with fine silk. Emphasis is on preparing the warp and warping the loom to achieve even tension. Right from the start. Advice on learning all kinds of warping methods and techniques. Right from the start. Warping a loom from front-to-back. Right from the start. Warping a loom from back-to-front. How to warp a loom with a sectional warp beam using a spool rack or creel and a tension box. Also describes how to tie a new warp onto a dummy warp, either in front or behind the heddles. Right from the start. Methods of dressing the loom with two warps. (1) With two warp beams. (2) Weighted pattern warp. (3) Ground and pattern warps beamed together. Designing the warp. Gives detailed instructions on how to identify fibers, how to select yarn for its stretch, strength and shrinkage and how to relate those factors to a weave structure. Also includes information on how to determine sett and to calculate yardage. Combining weave structures. A multiple-threading system for an eight-harness loom allows several patterns to be woven in the same piece without rethreading the loom. Use a small, plastic medicine bottle filled with pebbles as a weight for an added warp thread. A back-to-front method for getting a perfect warp on a loom. Includes details for measuring the warp, spreading a warp in a raddle, beaming on, threading, sleying and tying. Tip: Write threading draft in groups of four on narrow paper, like adding machine tape, and then mark off each group with a pin after the heddles have been threaded. Tip describes how to use cotton-backed plastic picnic cloth as a separator on a warp beam. Drawing shows roller device that can be constructed to keep the cloth straight and off the floor. Tip for using a surgeon's knot to tie warp bundles to the front apron. Accurate, knotless tie-ups using loop loom cord. A universal tie-up for a 4-shaft countermarch loom. Enjoy threading your loom. A method that will minimize errors. How to tie-up and weave on a countermarche loom. | |||||||||
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