Evening All!
My tiny local library finally managed to get a copy of Ann Hecht's 'The Art of the Loom' ordered in - which I've been glued to for about 24 hours now! One thing I keep noticing in photographs of accomplished backstrap weavers at work appears to be the use of multiple heddles.
I've been trying to get my head around how and why one might need to use them. It seems logical to me that one could attach a particular colour of warp to one heddle, and another colour to another heddle rod, but the mechanics of using more than one heddle rod are testing the limits of my poor imagination!
Anyone know whether it's a technique worth learning, how you might go ahead warping up with multiple heddles for decorative/coloured warps, how the weaving technique differs from the standard technique with one heddle rod etc??
The book is fantastic by the way, highly recommended reading! Though I'm sure I'm not the first on here to come across it :)