I do a lot of double sided weaving, which means most of the tablets are threaded the same, except for the selvedge. My loom is something like an inkle loom, I found the design online and my partner made it for me. I can warp directly on the loom. Once I have the "pattern" tablets warped, I make whatever changes are necessary for the selvedge, cutting a warp thread and tying a new colour to it, if that's what's required. It takes a bit of rigmarole to maintain the tension on the completed part of the warp while you're cutting and tying, especially since it requires tying knots that you want to have close to the end of the warp. I usually attach the completed part to one of the posts on the look when I'm doing the cutting and tying. The you just warp up the selvedge tablets and rearrange them to get the right positions. That would be incredibly tedious if you are talking about changing the warp for ecvery card, but it works fairly well for projects where most of the cards are threaded alike. Ford Elms
--- On Tue, 8/4/09, The Richters <[email protected]> wrote: From: The Richters <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [twist-tabletweaving] warping question To: [email protected] Received: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 12:13 AM >>If you have a pattern that isn't warped the same, I still use the quick warp >>method on the ones that are the same and then rearrange the cards when I >>place it on my loom. If you warp it around the same piece of furniture, the lengths will be pretty close. Any unevenness in the tension will be incorporated once you start weaving, but since this makes for messier starts, I usually try to even out the tension by hand before I start.<< That's basically what I ended up doing, but it was awkward. I wondered if there was a better way, or maybe I just need more practice. >What I do, is wind from the balls of yarn, hole by hole - I find that it's >much easier warping them directly on the inkle loom, than trying to cut all >the ends and then warp. << That's what I did for the pattern where all the cards were threaded the same, but the last 2 I tried there were only a few that were threaded the same. Except for the borders and center every card was threaded different. Thanks for the replies. Gail R -----Inline Attachment Follows----- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.43/2280 - Release Date: 08/03/09 17:56:00 __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.
