Handwoven Nov/Dec 2010. Isn't that pretty? Now that I have an 8-shaft loom, I thought I'd tackle something more ambitious than dishtowels. It's made of 12 colors of embroidery floss woven in doubleweave blocks with black to make a rainbow windowed scarf. You separate the floss into the 6 strands and sley at 60 epi. It's insane.
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| Paige has been very helpful throughout this process. |
But pretty. Anyway, I went out and bought three hundred billion little skeins of embroidery floss (The lady at Joanns scanned them individually. The receipt was more than 4 feet long.) and wound them onto bobbins. The article recommended you warp front to back, so front to back it was. I sleyed the reed pretty quickly, threaded slowly, and looked at the bobbins hanging in a tangled mess off the front beam and thought about what a bitch this would be to beam. And yea, verily, a bitch it is.
I hit a snag last night. Or rather, many tiny snags. Everything was twisted in front of the heddles before I had gotten even 2 inches through, and there was no way I could beam that. So I'm pulling it all out of the heddles so I can beam through the reed, then re-thread and re-sley at the end. The efficient and time-honored warping method of front to back to front again to oh god why. We'll see how this goes.
