I am in the process of figuring out a lace draft to put on my countermarche and being lace, its using a zillion heddles on shafts 1 & 2. When doing something like this on my jack looms, I always expanded out the draft to more shafts, but on a countermarche the one time I tried that I had a horrible time getting everything to balance. My draft is working out to over 800 heddles, 281 just on shaft 2 alone. That seems like huge number of heddles on one shaft. Am I reading more into this than I should, or is this one of the advantages of a CM, and does this mean I have to move all these heddles around? I currently have 150 heddles on each of the 8 shafts on my loom. What is the best approach to use??
Theresa in SE Wisconsin - where is is dreary so its a perfect day to draft some light and flirty lace.