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Frame loom Weaving Question
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I am new to weaving, and have a few books on the subject from which I am learning. I have built a simple but large frame loom, with nails as warp holders, for my first project - a simple two color (horizontal stripe) scarf. Well, none of my books say how to exactly deal with running out of yarn or changing colors. What I have done is to knot the weft yarn pieces together at the outermost warp yarn when I want to change to the second color for a stripe or just when I ran out of yarn and had to rebuild my shuttle. However, I am thinking this is probably not correct procedure and possibly not very strong. What should I be doing instead? Thanks, Amy |
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That's the way I do it also. I generally leave 6" of tails and use an
overhand knot, making sure I snug the knot down evenly on both strands and cozy it right up to a nail. As an FYI, if you start in a corner on a square loom and work diagonally you can work continuously and produce a self-warping, self-selvedging piece. Trilooms are a bunch of fun too On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:23:51 -0600, Amy Isleb spewed forth : Hi, I am new to weaving, and have a few books on the subject from which I am learning. I have built a simple but large frame loom, with nails as warp holders, for my first project - a simple two color (horizontal stripe) scarf. Well, none of my books say how to exactly deal with running out of yarn or changing colors. What I have done is to knot the weft yarn pieces together at the outermost warp yarn when I want to change to the second color for a stripe or just when I ran out of yarn and had to rebuild my shuttle. However, I am thinking this is probably not correct procedure and possibly not very strong. What should I be doing instead? Thanks, Amy |
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In article 2005012614235116807%amyisleb@yahoocom, Amy Isleb
wrote: Hi, I am new to weaving, and have a few books on the subject from which I am learning. I have built a simple but large frame loom, with nails as warp holders, for my first project - a simple two color (horizontal stripe) scarf. Well, none of my books say how to exactly deal with running out of yarn or changing colors. What I have done is to knot the weft yarn pieces together at the outermost warp yarn when I want to change to the second color for a stripe or just when I ran out of yarn and had to rebuild my shuttle. However, I am thinking this is probably not correct procedure and possibly not very strong. What should I be doing instead? Thanks, Amy Hello Amy, great that you have started to weave, and also that you made your own loom. When you run out of yarn you overlap the old and new ends and beat them down together, you can leave the tail ends hanging out and snip them off later. Depending on how many warp ends per inch you have you can overlap under 3 to 6 warp ends. For changing your stripe colour, you weave to the selvedge and snip off your yarn and turn this tail end around your last warp end and put it back in the same shed. beat down. Start with your next colour on the other selvedge open the opposite shed and put in your tail end, turn it around the last warp end at that edge and start weaving in the same shed. You have achored your new colour around the last warp end at that edge and put the start of your thread in the same shed. You do not end and start that way on the same side to avoid to many ends together, creating a bump. this way you keep your stripes neat and even. There are many good books about frame loom weaving, that will show you both ways I just told you about. Your local library should be able to help, or if there is a Weaving Guild in your comunity that would be another great place to go and ask for help and instructions. Let me know if you have any problems. Happy weaving Els -- hate spam not welcome |
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In article , Wooly
wrote: That's the way I do it also. I generally leave 6" of tails and use an overhand knot, making sure I snug the knot down evenly on both strands and cozy it right up to a nail. As an FYI, if you start in a corner on a square loom and work diagonally you can work continuously and produce a self-warping, self-selvedging piece. Trilooms are a bunch of fun too Wooly what do you do with the knots at your selvedge when you take your piece off the loom.....and what do you do with the tail ends. We are talking about running out of a weft thread as well as starting and finishing off a stripe. Or did I understand it wrong. My warp ends are knotted at the top and the bottom when I change colour or when I run out of yarn. These knots can be cut off when the left over ends become fringe for say a scarf or rug. However; my weft ends are never knotted unless it would be a very special design feature. They always over lap. Els -- hate spam not welcome |
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In article , Wooly
wrote: Most of the things I make on a frame loom are continuous strand self-warp self-selvedge and generally end up being fringed. The ends aren't an issue in that case. The few pieces I've made that weren't fringed required some interesting solutions to the Ends Question, none of them elegant, I'm afraid. Good explanation, that makes sense..LOL Els -- hate spam not welcome |
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