Hi y'all,
I live in the middle of a "vast fiber waste land", and am trying to teach myself to weave, with the help of Deborah Chandler's book, and everything I can find online. I have a LeClerc Artistat 36" 4 shaft loom, and have been doing samplers and test pieces to get used to using it. Everything I have done so far has been 1 thread per dent.
Now I'm ready to make my first scarf.. I bought some nice 8/2 tencel, figured out my warp measurements, wound it on my warping board, and it's now chained and ready to go on the loom. I chose a simple twill pattern, and according to my measurements, it needs to have an epi of 24, so that means 2 ends per dent in my 12 dent reed.
I understand all that, but what about when I am threading the heddles? If it is 1 thread per heddle, do those 2 threads from each dent on the reed go into 2 heddles on the same shaft? I hope you're not laughing at this point, because I just can't figure it out. I am thinking that the 2 threads get counted as if they were one, and you use 2 heddles on the same shaft when threading, but I can't find anywhere it actually says to do that. Reading these weaving drafts is like learning a foreign language to me, and I don't even know if I am explaining it properly.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Deb in N TX