On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Di <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've another question about warp-weighting the selvedge when weaving on an > inkle loom. > > What do you tie the other end to? Normally the ends of the threads in > each card are tied to themselves in a continuous loop, but with > warp-weighting, do you just tie all the threads from the selvedges to the > threads from the next card in? The engineering of this still seems > unclear to me... >
I guess it all depends on what you consider "normal". For me, when I'm weaving on an inkle loom, "normal" is having no knots except tying the start of card 1 to the end of card N, with the threads from card 1 turning into the threads for card 2 without any knots. If I were to add warp-weighted selvage cards to an inkle look setup, I would tie one end of the selvage threads to the inkle loom and just let the weights hang off the back. When it comes time to shift the weaving, I would untie selvage threads from the loom (they will now be firmly woven in, so aren't going to go anywhere), and then proceed as usual.
