Spreading the Love of Weaving

My friend Jan has been bitten by the weaving bug or should I say a whole swarm of weaving bugs?  I went over to help her warp her new table loom - an old Schacht 4 harness loom.

She has made progress on her cotton towel project that we warped a little while back (here).

Jan was able to acquire a 14 yard warping board so I showed her how to work with that and we wound a 2 yard warp for the first project in cotton.  She has a secret bag of cotton yarn that seems to grow bigger every time I see it.


Since it was later in the evening, after talking out the number of ends and the number of times to count the warping maneuvers, we still managed to get it wrong.  We were suppose of have 120 epi but forgot (and miscounted) and ended up with only 60.


Her new loom has metal heddles with a separator in the middle of each shaft so when we counted the heddles, we used 15 on each side on all 4 harnesses.  Well everything ended up on the right side as we were missing one whole side.


We took a break for dinner and came back to sley the reed and tie everything up.  There is a bit of sticking on the heddles so it is a bit fiddly yet.  After the first project some sanding and waxing may occur but Jan is definitely on her way to being a weaver.