Hi!

I just got my first loom - it is a table loom that I assembled myself.  With some help from the instruction manual, I was able to make my first ever warp (yay!!), get it onto the loom, and start to weave.  So, I have used up all of the wool from my first warp and only have a few inches of woven material - here is the (stupid?) question.  Do I tie more wool onto the ends of the warp wool or am I done?

Thanks, and apologies for what I know is a REALLY silly question.

Cheers

Alison

Comments

Sat, 03/23/2013 - 22:58

sequel (not verified)

It sounds like when you made your warp, you did not add the extra 24" to 36" loom waste.  Loom waste is the part of the warp you cannot weave on - half is lost in the tie-on process, the other half is what you cannot weave because you are too close to the end!  If you want to make a warp with 2 yards woven, you will have to make it about 3 yards long.  There are warp calculators on line here and there to help you figure out what you need.

You could make a really long warp to practice weaving, but the weaving is the easy part.  Make lots of small projects so you will remember from one to the next how to thread the loom.

Sun, 03/24/2013 - 00:26

sarahnopp (not verified)

Definitely not stupid! The answer, like so many answers in weaving, is "it depends". If you want to weave the same patterning, assuming this is a multi-shaft loom, then tying on is one good solution. Personally, I think that sounds like hours of torment, but I know people who like to do that. Of course, I rarely weave the same thing twice.