Hello!
I've been weaving for about 6-7 months now, and have read quite a bit on this site, but never posted. Let me say how nice it is that this site exists and everyone shares their knowledge, I hope I can return the favor!
I'm weaving some towels right now with 8/2 unmercerized cotton (Brassard) set at 20 epi, but every time I have dealt with this cotton, the warp threads tend to "stick" to each other during warping so that some ends are looser than others and that leads to tension issues later from uneven winding. I deal with it by keeping the sticks in behind the heddles and/or weighting the loosest threads, but ultimately I'd like to fix whatever I'm doing wrong in the beginning. I don't have any issues with mercerized/perle cotton, since I think the smoother threads don't allow that to happen. I'm warping B2F if that makes a difference. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Douglas