Hi Friends,
It's me again still trying to get my loom tied up and working. I just got the book by Joanne Hall called "Tying Up the Countermarch Loom". I also have the little article "Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know" about tying up a CM loom by Madelyn van der Hoogt. I know that both these ladies are experts in the field, but several things in each method are very different. I am now totally confused and don't know which method to use. Which method would you recommend and why? Any help GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks and GOD bless,
Candace
Madelyn's article is showing you what to do when your heddles are too long. She has heddles which are 2 inches longer than what the Glimakra factory recommends, so that complicates the tie-up. With the normal size heddles, you do not need to put the upper lamms that high or use the rubber bands she suggests. How you attach treadle cords is not relavant to the tie-up methods.
Joanne
I'm curious if there's something in particular that is giving you trouble with the tie up? I have read Joanne's book and Madelyn's article, but Joanne's instructions made the most sense to me, so that's what I followed. I'm only on my third warp, but each time I feel like I understand the process a little bit more.
I've woven on a multitude of countermarche looms for over 30 years - have never written a book because the "Big Book of Weaving" (similar to Joanne's book) was so clear that I've never needed anything else. I own a large number of weaving books and most concur with either source listed above. There just isn't a lot of variation here.
By the time I read Madelyn's article, I was able to see it for what it is - the typical extreme attempt to get a shed larger than needed - that I found it amusing, put it away and went back to any of the sources that stem from the traditional European approach to setting up the countermarche loom.
