I have started warping up a loom. My goal is to keep both looms warped up so that I do more weaving during spring, summer and fall. The more carefully one warps up the loom the fewer mistakes one has to work around as one weaves. Since I am a sporadic weaver I don’t warp the loom often enough so that it is an easy task. First one calculates how many ends or strands of …
After a morning in the kitchen, and some friendly delightful customers, i headed upstairs to work on weaving my last rug on this warp. I started with army green and added the end border stripe I did narrow grey and then the pink beige that was the narrow border stripe on the previous rug of mostly blue. You can see that prior rug on the cloth beam …
A few days ago Ken needed a break. He started a building project; he is taking a very old cart and converting it to a portable chicken coop. I also needed a break from produce work; I love tomatoes and peppers, but I have sorted many this season… So, I headed upstairs to a loom that has about enough warp for one more rug. I was experimenting with two different warps to figure out how …
Although I have been weaving over a series of years, weaving takes a back seat to most things – selling pottery, picking beans, making lunch, etc. So I don’t really have much experience. Years ago I got a rug loom at an auction. the bid was going just a bit higher than I was willing to spend when Ken stepped in, bid, and the other fellow quit. It had a sectional warp – the ability …
