Saturday 22 December 2007

Another tweak to my loom set up..

Again, thanks to Peggy Ostercamp, I'd read about this in her book (p.61, Warping Your Loom & Tying on New Warps) and then I noticed it happening on my loom. See the distorted apron rod, below. This photo of the the warp at the back of the loom was taken as I got to the end of weaving a narrow sample warp.








I expect that this has happened before, and I didn't see because I didn't look.

I think the problems with this are: potential for strain or breaking the rod, and possiblilty of un-even warp tension. Peggy's advice is to reduce the strain by only using ties where the warp is, see below the instant improvement when I had undone the excess ties.
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2 comments:

  1. Peg in South Carolina28 December 2007 at 23:03

    Ah yes.............

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  2. Leigh30 December 2007 at 14:16

    I've noticed this with my weaving as well. If it hadn't been for Peggy I probably would have had a broken apron rod!

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Thank you!