I started this blog partly because when I began weaving - self-taught, me at home with the loom, some books and some friends on the internet - I couldn't find all the information I needed. I wanted to know more about how countermarche looms work, I wanted to see how other people got their looms set up and what their weaving looked like.
If you are also learning to weave, I hope some of the things I have written about will help you.
Note: My floor loom is an 8 shaft Toika Norjanna, my table loom is a Leclerc Voyageur (8 shaft, 24")
TECHNICAL ISSUES - LOOM SET UP ETC.
(see below for weaving structures & samples)
COUNTERMARCHE LOOM
On tying up the treadles / lamms
Treadles again and a few inches woven
A universal tie-up for a countermarch loom
Putting a warp on the loom (this includes pictures of a homemade raddle)
and again here
Making cloth aprons for my loom.
GETTING A WARP SET UP AND WEAVING, including solving problems
Preparing a warp
Winding pirns for an end feed shuttle
Weighting a warp while winding on, sleying the reed, correcting a mis-threading error.
Restraining the warp threads when I had to leave the loom with warp wound on but not threaded, sleyed and tie-on to the front apron.
Supporting lease sticks (and warp) ready for threading the heddles
Sleying the reed - also lashing on technique for attaching warp to front apron. The alternative method of tying on with Larks Head knots (see end).
Fixing threading and treadling errors
Adding in an extra heddle
SELVEDGES
Selvedge problems on the floor loom
Selvedge problems on my table loom
SHUTTLES
About my weaving shuttles - boat shuttles and end feed.
MISCELLANEOUS
Adding extra treadles (but not extra shafts) to my countermarche loom
A repair to my loom
Useful weights - I use these on floating selvedges which I don't beam on with the rest of the warp, I wind them on a bobbin, hung over the back beam, with one of these weights.
WEAVING STRUCTURES & SAMPLES
"COLOUR AND WEAVE" which is creating patterns by the order of different coloured warp and weft threads
Colour and weave (introduction)
Setting up for colour and weave
Close up colour and weave
JANET PHILLIP'S SAMPLE BLANKET a twill sampler from instructions in Janet's book
Designing Woven Fabrics - the sample blanket
Universal tie-up for a countermarch loom
Yarn calculations for the sample blanket
Sample blanket progress report
Cotton Chenille Sampler (woven on the same warp)
Chocolate Scarf - using knowledge gained from the sampler in designing a scarf.
COLOUR SAMPLERS
Cloth of many colours, my first 15 colour sampler.
Second colour sampler
OTHER WEAVING SAMPLES
Twill samples
Advancing twills
Pleats
Last updated on 25/05/09.
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