Does anyone know where I might find plans to make a warping mill?
Thanks.
I have plans for a large vertical warping mill. I would also post this request at the weaving forum. Back to the warping reel. This plan is from "Weaving with Foot-Power Looms" by Edward Worst. The reel is 60 inchs tall and 38 inch across. It has a bill of material. I can back copies for you if you like. I would also do an online search.
Michael
Here is a set of plans on line at http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/1292/plans.html
Michael
Thanks!!
Hi, any chance of you reposting these plans somewhere? That geocities link is broken - I'd be very grateful, there doesn't seem to be anwhere in the UK to buy a decent large warping mill, and I'm finding the Ashford one way to fiddly for long warps because of its small size.
You can download this (or part of) book which has a plan for a large warping mill. http://www.archive.org/details/footpowerloomwea00worsrich
Michael
I made my own based on one used in college, it is similar to the LeClerc loom (diagrams of theirs can be found on Leclerc's site) keep your spacing between supports at half yard (include amount for wrapping around post). Mine cost less than $50 to make and works great. I made my own plans. Ill try to post pics on my blog later this week.
Dawn
Be sure to make the four vertical wooden pieces substantial so that the reel has enough weight. I have the 3 meter Glimakra reel and it is very heavy. This makes it turn better, making the winding very fast. Ed made my first reel back in the 70s. It was 2 yards around which was way to small and it was light weigth. In order to work well, the top had to be attached to a ceiling beam. So, make it at least 3 yards or meters around and heavy.
Joanne
I made this with help from my brother. It was huge, didn't fold. It takes up as much space as a big box loom. Too high for short me to reach the top comfortably. Ugh! I never could make it work well. It was an albatross in the studio. Finally gave it away and haven't ever tried a mill again. I hope they have used it for firewood.
I have the opposite experience. I would never give up my reel. I wind warps for the towel kits I sell, probably about 500 sold now, so I wind a lot of warps. Most are over 400 ends and I wind them in 15 or 20 minutes. And they have from 20 to 25 different color stripes in them.
When I teach, I demonstrate on the reel and I get out the warping frame and demonstrate on it. It works just fine and I wind very quickly on the frame, but please do not ever make me use one! A reel is a real weaving tool.
Joanne
My husband made me one out of oak to match my loom. It
is heavy and folds. It is about the size of the Harrisville warping mill. He
never got around to putting the pegs on, so I used spring clamps to make my
cross. I will get it down and take a picture of it. I am not sure if he had
plans. I'll check. Later I came across the large horizontal AVL warping mill -
LOVE it. I have it in the basement. I can make my 30 yards warps I dye. I could
make one longer but....
I use a 4 meter mill - to wind anything from 2.5 yards up to 30+. As Joanne said, the weight and balance are really important. That big mill was suggested by my husband who originally built me a 2m mill that wobbled and didn't have any good momentum when turning.
Wew carry 4m mills for anyone doing heavy duty weaving.
These were/are on Nancy McKenna's webpages.
In addition to the reel, there's also a plan for an electronic counter. It requires solder, magnets, and disemboweling a calculator. It looks pretty authoritative, but I'm sure I'd create another black hole in the universe if I tried it.
http://www.faena.medievaltextiles.org/pl...
Hi, I posted pics and rough dimensions on my blog - http://bloominloom-dawnmccarthy.blogspot.com
My calcs were a little off so my mill makes just over a two yard wrap (one go around). Make sure to allow for the distance wrapped around the wood side supports! With the cross bars in place distance between poles should measure 18 inches. I measure a waste string the length of my required warp and use that as a guide. Hope this helps, mine has worked great for me as I do a lot of longer warps.
Dawn
Here's that warping mill Mike suggested. That old book is a gold mine. ;D
Those old timers knew what they were doing. ;)
Hard maple, like oak is 46 lbs/ft3 when dried to 12% moisture. There is about 40 lbs of wood in this. As an added bonus this wood has some curl and birdeye figure as well as ray fleck on the cross stretchers.
That is a great looking warping mill, There is also a "plan" for a full size loom is that your next project?
Michael
I've built the reel, the swift (no plans), the spool rack, paddle (with laminated walnut handle), and little tools I find in my researching, plus others I just make up. Need those small projects to use up scraps. ;)
Short Reel video (15 sec):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Nn4sc5LF4
The plans in the book for the loom are a little dated, I'm building mine as a countermarche with vertical horses and the beams will have wooden rachets. I've got the frame material all cut, just waiting for my drill press to cut the mortises and drill some angled holes for wheel handles. I'll be looking for a source of Texsolv and the little pins and clips used to set up the heddles and treddles. The loom will be quite wide for blankets, so it will be built to take apart if needed to move.
I'm also using a flyshuttle beater.
Here is my prototype flyshuttle I was testing today in the shop. Very short video for dial-up users (15 sec).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C-wlVvpdFw
In the video I never had any snags, that was me trying to grap thread and keep pulling. You can see that the outfeed has no sag, it's kept taught. ;)
I built the pirn and the tightening mechanism for the threads. The pirn is installed into a knock down fitting, where the cam is held in place by spring wire. An arrow in the face of the cam points to the insertion point of the shuttle body. The pirn has a brass insert nut which has an inside thread where the knock down bolt screws inside, tighten with screw driver. The pirn will also fit a winder I'm building which turns on wooden gears. Maple makes real tough gears and rachet wheels. ;)
You can see once you get going there is something else along the production line that needs building. Love it, it's a great wood working project. Got lots of wood and tools to play around with. ;D
Oh, and I will be building the raddle and temple from the plans in the book. I will modify according to my loom width of course. :)
