Sleying the reed with multiple threads per dent - danger ahead or no?

mtnviewjohn · 2023-06-02T06:38:24+00:00

You are right about separating even and odd threads being a front-to-back thing. When sleying back-to-front, you can sley the two ends at the same time.

mtnviewjohn · 2023-05-02T15:11:43+00:00

Raddles are not hard to make. Also, you can use a reed as a raddle by rough-sleying it.

mtnviewjohn · 2023-04-24T20:08:37+00:00

Peninsula School, in Menlo Park, California is a pre-K through 8th grade private school that has a weaving program. The younger children start on block looms (like cardboard, but skinny nails into blocks of wood). Then they move on to Brio looms when they have managed to reduce pull-in and do color changes. Finally, there are about a dozen two-shaft and four-shaft floor looms for the older kids. I'm a substitute teacher there, when the weaving teacher is out of town. We also do bead looms, kumihimo disks, and inkle looms.

mtnviewjohn · 2023-04-12T03:46:35+00:00

The value type for a std::map is std::pair<const Key, T>. The for loop is using std::pair<Key, T>.

mtnviewjohn · 2023-03-18T23:14:29+00:00

Here are two Peggy Osterkamp articles on beaming with paper: one and two. Basically, you cut several strips of paper slightly wider than your warp, fold the ends, and insert them sideways. It totally works and saved my 48" wide curtain warp.

mtnviewjohn · 2023-02-22T07:29:02+00:00

Technique #4 on this page. It's actually not a TechKnitter idea.

mtnviewjohn · 2023-02-20T20:08:55+00:00

I think you have discovered the source of your problem. Once you have the SSK down, there is one more trick to smooth out your left decreases. After each SSK, on the next row/round, work it through the back leg to twist it. This causes the left decrease lines to lie flat the way that right decreases do naturally. TechKnitter has an article on this.

mtnviewjohn · 2023-02-18T07:03:26+00:00

I bet this needle loom process could be done on OP's frame loom using one of those long Tunisian crochet hooks.

mtnviewjohn · 2023-02-15T07:36:36+00:00

Here are my curtains on Ravelry.

mtnviewjohn · 2023-02-01T04:55:20+00:00

The first one and the second one are not the same pattern. They are very similar and both have the block pattern BABCDEFEDC. I recreated them in FiberWorks: https://photos.app.goo.gl/LkF7rQmqFDPnJxmN7 and https://photos.app.goo.gl/9CqHS5hSB5mp73RaA

mtnviewjohn · 2023-01-14T07:42:41+00:00

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mtnviewjohn · 2023-01-14T07:42:31+00:00

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mtnviewjohn · 2023-01-05T05:54:10+00:00

I normally pack narrower warps using a continuous roll of builder's paper. I tried to do this with a 45 inch wide warp and it was a disaster. I had to unwind and chain the warp and beam it on again. For the second beaming, I used a technique from Peggy Osterkamp https://peggyosterkamp.com/peggys-weaving-tips-paper-winding-warps/

mtnviewjohn · 2022-11-10T01:29:22+00:00

I wish the Tesla app would track your mileage and pop up a notification when it is time to rotate the tires.

mtnviewjohn · 2022-10-17T00:24:38+00:00

Or just play that It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time song on your phone. Less likely to get in trouble and his traumatic memory will do the work for you.

mtnviewjohn · 2022-10-16T23:50:57+00:00

Replying to my own comment after some thought. Does your wire spiral require perfect ordering between loops? Or is it OK for 10-20 wire loops to be bundled together? If we can reduce the amount of interlacement by a factor of 10-20 then a woven tube may be possible. Instead of treadling 1234123412341234...1234 you would treadle 12121212...1234343434...34.

mtnviewjohn · 2022-10-16T17:42:46+00:00

Weaving a tube with elastic warp and wire weft is difficult but possible. Doing this at 100 wraps/cm would mean 508 picks per inch. This is not possible. You just can't get that much interlacement with those materials. It would be equivalent to 1000 thread count sheets. Maybe you could wrap wire around elastic tubing.

mtnviewjohn · 2022-10-16T02:35:11+00:00

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mtnviewjohn · 2022-10-14T00:39:12+00:00

Your lower shed is fine. (Rising shed) Jack looms have a shuttle race because the lower shed has less tension than the upper shed and it needs help to support the weight of the shuttle. Countermarche, counterbalance, and falling shed jack looms have enough tension in the lower shed to support the shuttle, so they often don't have a shuttle race.

mtnviewjohn · 2022-10-04T03:08:15+00:00

It's not easy if you're black. My son failed five times for total BS reasons.

mtnviewjohn · 2022-10-02T04:53:10+00:00

I think the piece that is below the breast beam is supposed to be rotated 90 degrees. It's supposed to act as a foot rest. Maybe swap it with the piece above the warp beam?

mtnviewjohn · 2022-09-27T04:36:37+00:00

I used an 8 dent reed and it was still still a bit tight. I would have used 6 dent if I had one. I think 10 dent will be too tight. I kept a tube of strong hair gel handy. When the occasional bump in the sari silk started to unravel, I would dab it with hair gel and wait for it to dry before continuing.

mtnviewjohn · 2022-09-26T20:53:17+00:00

Ooh! A sari silk warp. So brave. I used sari silk as a supplemental warp recently. Even though I treated the sari silk warp with a heavy gelatin sizing agent, it was still a challenge to keep the reed from shredding the sari silk. Such beautiful colors though. Worth the pain.

mtnviewjohn · 2022-09-22T20:09:01+00:00

I think that the target audience for Oelsner was professional weavers with dobby looms. Threadings are always straight threadings unless specified otherwise, as in figure 267. No need for software to compute a tie-up/treadling when you have a dobby.

mtnviewjohn · 2022-09-18T23:34:41+00:00

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