Hi there,
I've been working on planning a twill sampler gamp. It's coming along well, but before I start my loom set up, I've run into a few questions. My sampler is small, only 192 ends total, and I'll be weaving it on my 4-harness table loom. I'll be using 8/2 cotton with a 2-2 sley in a 12 dent reed (from my samples, it seems as though this will give me about 26 epi). My threading includes a mixure of straight twill, 8-end point twill, Bell Celtic, 6-end point twill, advancing twill, and herringbone. My question lies in dividing up the heddles on the harnesses. At first I was thinking I'd do 48 on each (48x4=192), but then I realized that due to my threading, things don't come out evenly (almost, but not quite). Does anyone have an easy way to calculate how many I should put on each? I only have about 197 heddles total (I should order more) so I have enough for my project but don't have a lot of wiggle room.
My second question is about floating selveges. I've heard that this is a way to get nice edges on twills. Any pointers?
I'm also curious if anyone has any tips on creating a warp with stripes. My first warp had equal sized stripes of two colors, but I'm hoping to get a bit more complicated for this project-- stripes of varying widths in 3 colors, using various color to separate the different twill threading patterns.
I can attach my draft if it would be helpful to see where I'm at.
Thank you!