This is the 15th year of continuous daily publication for 365Caws. All things considered, it's likely it will be the last year as it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to find interesting material. However, I hope that I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world with my natural history posts, or encouraged a novice weaver or needleworker. If so, I've done what I set out to do.
Friday, March 21, 2025
Inventive Solution
Day 160: Halfway through the complicated threading of "Norse Kitchen," I became aware that something was grievously wrong. I had counted heddles carefully, but I was coming up short for those on two shafts. I looked at the draft I'd printed out, and compared it to my calculations. They did not agree on the number of repeats in the center section. After much study, I discovered a second mistake. It was time for a major rewrite, and it had to be one which would allow me to use the warp I had already measured and rolled onto the loom. I took a "sanity break" before sitting down with the calculator, and once I'd made the adjustments, I saw that I was going to have to add nine more warp threads on each side. Now how was I going to do that? It meant I'd have to pull the four-yard warp off the loom, and I certainly didn't want to leave it in a pile on the floor, so I wound it onto my 16-inch rigid heddle loom. Merry got a little too helpful during the next phase and had to be locked in the bathroom for the duration, but by dinnertime, I had the warp wound back onto Schacht. If the Gods of Weaving are benevolent, they will reward me for my diligence today with a smooth and error-free threading process.
Labels:
Merry,
Norse Kitchen,
rethreading,
rigid heddle,
Schacht,
Weaving Gods
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