Flowers and Surf Sarongs

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Flowers and Surf Sarongs
Project
Draft: 
Plain weave
Project Status: 
Warping
Project Date: 
Sun, 05/01/2011
Yarn
Yarn: 8/2 Tencel
Color: Teal, Grey Green, Periwinkle and Eggplant
Type: warp
Loom
Loom Used: 
AVL dobby loom
Number of Shafts: 
16
Number of Treadles: 
2
Sett: 
22.00 EPI
Length on Loom: 
11.00 yd
Width on Loom: 
40.00 in
Notes: 

This is on my new-to-me AVL Folding Dobby Loom. I am waiting to order heddles because the loom came with @500 (I am beginning to think people eat the heddles off the loom before selling them to get extra fiber in their diets. Seriously, this is the second loom I have bought with very few heddles.) 

I am hopeful that Sectional Warping for Complete Idiots appears in Cyber Fiber again because my sectional warping technique ends up looking like a 40 strand kumihimo strand instead of neat little packages of yarn winding effortlessly onto the beam.

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Mystery explained! (about the

Mystery explained! (about the lack of heddles on looms.) I never considered fiber consumption by previous owners. ;-)

I like to have at least 100 per shaft, so 500 for 16s is just ridiculous. Your warp actually looks pretty good in the photo above-can't wait to watch your weaving progress posted here!