Help with warping up a new loom

Submitted by joanneb on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 7:21pm

Hi

I was gifted a 4 shaft countermach floor loom recently.  Have woven on four and eight shaft table top looms, learn ton a four shaft 27 years ago and really enjoyed it but when I went back to work the loom found a dusty spot to hibernate. Having recently retired I immediately started weaving again and doing small projects has gone well.

Today with a little help from a friend we warped and tied up the loom with rosepath. Using a blue thread the same thickness as the cream  warp did a couple of rows of tabby the left hand edge and the length of the weave look great but the right hand last 5 warp threads are blocking blue ! We tried tightening the tension (which seemed much like the other warp anyhow).  tied up treadle peddle on on 1and 3 shafts and and treadle 6 = shafts 2 and 4  ( other treadles 1+2, 2+3, 3+4, 4+1)   was only doing tabby to set the warp.

thanks for any advice you can give 

Jo-Anne

 

Comments

Sun, 08/09/2015 - 13:42

Sara von Tresckow

That sounds like a subtle problem with the threading of the warp or something crossed between shafts - definitely not the tieup.

Look to see if the Texsolv(or string) heddles have somehow looped in a way that prevents the shed from opening properly on those threads, or if the shafts have somehow bound together on that side to prevent the weft from entering correctly, or a similar situation.

Just recently I had a connection on a drawloom that absolutely wouldn't open - and after serious troubleshooting found that after moving the shafts (ground shafts) around for threading, ONE lower loop on a Texsolv heddle had worked around a cup hook on the shaft next door. Once the offending loop was put back in place, everything worked fine.

 

Sun, 08/09/2015 - 15:08

ReedGuy

Seen something similar a few times and have learned from it when I see what looks like a few slack heddles rising. :)

Sun, 08/09/2015 - 20:21

joanneb

thanks getting desparate ! hope retying will help! checked heddles they seem right