Showing posts with label warp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label warp. Show all posts
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Warp In Waiting

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I always like to have a "warp in waiting" when I'm working on a floor loom project so that when I finish up, I can jump right ...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Warping Into 2024

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Day 78: As far as I'm concerned, Warp 10 isn't fast enough to get out of 2023. Of course there are no guarantees 2024 will be any be...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Working Up The Chain

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Day 15: Yesterday was spent working my way up the chain, i.e., winding warp onto one of my rigid-heddle looms for a rather challenging proje...
Monday, November 21, 2022

How's It Hangin'?

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Day 39: This was as far as I got with hanging a new warp on the floor loom last night. One of the drawbacks to having multiple projects goin...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Weaving Terms

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Day 110: Several of my loyal and faithful readers have remarked to me recently that they feel like they're reading a foreign language wh...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Virgin Warp

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Day 105: Since the arrival of the 16" rigid heddle loom, I have been debating what to put on it as its inaugural project. It wasn't...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Tabula Rasa

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Day 74: Tabula rasa, a clean slate. That's what you see here, or close. Having taken two projects off the floor loom on the day of Chris...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Warping

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Day 172: Any weaving project begins with visualization. Then comes the actual planning, based on the width and length of fabric required ...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Warp Measure

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Day 28: The first step in any weaving project (that is, after the pattern has been selected and warp length has been calculated) is to me...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Warp Solo

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Day 75: The rose-path scarf/table runner is off the loom, although I still have the fringes to tie, so today I started warping for anothe...
Monday, December 11, 2017

12 Dents Per Inch

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Day 59: So long ago now that I can't recall when it was, an internet acquaintance who was giving up weaving sent me a boxful of spo...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Rugs In The Raw

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Day 88: With my last project fresh off the loom, I was anxious to get started on another one, but when I dove into my weaving supplies, I...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Warped

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Day 71: The project currently on my loom has been there since Christmas 2013, and I have no excuse for having largely ignored it for the ...