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Fri, 08/06/2010 - 17:49

sally orgren

Okay Ellen,

Why is it every time I click on an interesting-looking project, it seems to be one of yours?! ;-)

Thank you for posting the process shots, too. Our guild had a presentation in this technigue, and I was sad to miss it due to work travel. I'd love to try it someday, but will take your comment about fine threads under consideration. (But I DO love the results of the finer cloth you wove!)

Reducing the warps as you worked across looked a bit scary. Was it? At what increments did you attach a "dummy" warp to keep tension on the shorter woven area? (Every 4-6" or just when needed?) Was a weight just hung off the back of the loom for this?

And I had to smile when I noticed that you put tape with numbers on your treadles. (I do too, and probably will continue to do so no matter how long I have been weaving!)

Fri, 08/06/2010 - 18:01

debmcclintock

I sincerely wish my stash was as rich as yours!  

Fri, 08/06/2010 - 19:07

Ellen (not verified)

Really? I wished to have had something more colourful after having seen all those Scottish tartans! But I always have a fairly good base of black, white and gray, which can be combined with most other colours, I find.
Fri, 08/06/2010 - 19:25

Ellen (not verified)

Hi Sally, As usual you are being far too generous :-) It was not too scary, really, after taking the first deep breath. And it helped having the temple sitting there at first. I put the first dummy in when I had to remove the temple, and then again about mid-way when I felt it would help the strain on the first one. I just hung a weight on an S-hook down the back, and it helped that I had left the lease stick in (I usually do)and could tie them up to the sides beams of the loom. That meant I could hang the extra little weight (in fact, just another S-hook)on the two ends I was not going to use (I had been warping with 2 ends, so when I cut, I got 4 ends loose. I once put on the little numbers when I was doing a very complicated treadling sequence and found it made things easier, so why not just leave them in. And have used them ever since. It doesn't matter much for a straight run, but if you are doing like 2-7-3-6-5-1-9 or something hysterical, it is really helpful. Glad to hear I'm not the only one though ;-) I found the next one I did with 300 ends more enjoyeble to do than this one with more than 1000! That is a lot of walking to the back of the loom. I shall be looking for your first attempt at this, Sally. Have fun. Ellen
Wed, 08/18/2010 - 02:05

TinaHilton (not verified)

Beautiful work Ellen.  I've woven these too, but not with such fine thread.  I hope you were able to reach the threads from the front and didn't have go around to the back of the loom to cut them.  I wove a triangle shawl on big 150 cm Glimakra.  It wasn't fine yarn (a mix of wool and mohair), but still it was a lot of steps to walk to the back each time.

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Notes
My first attempt at Kerstin Froberg's way of weaving a V. Interesting, but found it was too fine a yarn. Colours and stripes were inspired by my recent trip to Scotland, and most of all: what I had in my stash.
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