Hi everyone,
I am warping a floor loom (a Harrisville 22"/8-shaft loom) for the first time. I'm following Deborah Chandler's Learning to Weave book, warping front to back, and have gotten as far as tying on to the front apron rod. At first I tied the warp threads really tight and noticed that this was pulling up the shafts, with the top of the heddle eyes resting directly on the threads. I loosened it enough so that the shafts didn't rise up, but now when I raise any of the shafts, the top threads in the shed are extremely loose and sag while the bottom threads are tight. I tried Googling to find an answer, but it appears the usual problem with jack looms is the opposite, where the top threads are tight and the bottom ones are loose. I assembled the loom from a kit. I don't know if I put the loom together incorrectly or if I've warped it incorrectly. I don't if the picture below helps (it's not great), but it seems like the threads might angle down a bit sharply from the bottom of the reed to the eyes of the heddles--maybe the shafts need to hang higher? I'm hoping this will make sense to someone with a lot more experience--can anyone help?
