Help with warping up a new loom
Submitted by joanneb on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 7:21pmHi
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