Hello all! I've just finished warping my fairly new baby wolf for 8-shaft summer and winter towels. These towels http://www.cottonclouds.com/shopping/kit_info.asp?id=1795 from the ebook I've had for ages despite only having a 4 shaft loom until a couple of months ago.
I'm not sure how best to describe the problem I'm having - but I'll give it a try. I'm using the skeleton tie up - because I only have 10 treadles. Treadle one has shafts 3 thru 8 tied up. Treadle two only shafts 1 and 2 tied up. Remaining treadles all have shaft 2 tied up - along with varying other shafts. (Sorry - tried to cut and paste tie up portion of the draft and couldn't.) When I try to weave plain weave using treadle one and two - as per the draft - shaft two is always up. It stays up even when I'm pressing only treadle one. When I step on treadle one all of the other treadles (except treadle two) also depress - which makes shaft two rise along with the others. All of my warp threads threaded on shaft two are continuously up - obviously not what is supposed to happen - but I don't know how to fix it.
I feel like I'm missing something silly here. Admittedly I'm rushing to get going on this project as I'm on a gift deadline with it. Also - I've been weaving on a counterbalance loom for years now - so I'm a bit out of practice with jack looms.
If anyone out there can understand my garbled problem description or has experience with this draft and has pointers - I'd really appreciate the help.
Thanks so much to everyone!