Ok y'all get a sort of precis of warping a rug loom tonight
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Some of the strands in one of the hanks at the far end, the more pale ones, are from a ball of hand spun yarn that @theantlady sent us! Community!
Thank you for the photos and the explanation! It's so exciting to see this getting underway. :^D
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Ok y'all get a sort of precis of warping a rug loom tonight.
You set up a warping board, like a peg board. However big your blanket is going to be, divide it down into manageable hanks, like 20-50 warp strings per hank. You stretch each one in a z pattern on the warping board so they're all piled up but no strings cross. Then you pull all that off and loose weave it into a chain so you can pull the strands out but the whole hank doesn't tangle.@smellsofbikes wait is that why they call it a hanky?
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@smellsofbikes wait is that why they call it a hanky?
@MultimediaMage alas, no, but I like it.
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It is traditional that the house pet gets tangled up in this process. At this point you yell "dog in the warp!" (Or cat...)
Next installation: finished loading the heddles and in the process of pulling the warp strands onto the comb before they get hooked to the warp apron.
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Next installation: finished loading the heddles and in the process of pulling the warp strands onto the comb before they get hooked to the warp apron.
@smellsofbikes ooo, are you gonna program it to render fractals?
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Next installation: finished loading the heddles and in the process of pulling the warp strands onto the comb before they get hooked to the warp apron.
Infeed and outfeed pictures of the warp hanks. Now it's time to start the simultaneous process of tensioning and wrapping the warp onto the outfeed spindle.
Btw last time I had the comb (whatever it's called) removed because that's where I sit pulling lines through the heddle as it's way easier on my back. -
@smellsofbikes ooo, are you gonna program it to render fractals?
@RueNahcMohr that would be so cool
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Infeed and outfeed pictures of the warp hanks. Now it's time to start the simultaneous process of tensioning and wrapping the warp onto the outfeed spindle.
Btw last time I had the comb (whatever it's called) removed because that's where I sit pulling lines through the heddle as it's way easier on my back.And here's the spindle apron all ready to go!
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And here's the spindle apron all ready to go!
Combing out the wriggly bits in the warp before starting to pull it through. This takes a lot of patience and is an ongoing task: pull a meter or so through, comb more, pull more through.
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Combing out the wriggly bits in the warp before starting to pull it through. This takes a lot of patience and is an ongoing task: pull a meter or so through, comb more, pull more through.
Oh hey heres a way better pic of the warp spindle comb and apron. You can see how everything works better
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Oh hey heres a way better pic of the warp spindle comb and apron. You can see how everything works better
This part is stressful: getting all the warp strings with similar tension as they're pulled through. On the warp beam, as we're pulling the warp through, I'm adding sticks between layers of warp so the layers don't tangle or stick together on the beam.
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This part is stressful: getting all the warp strings with similar tension as they're pulled through. On the warp beam, as we're pulling the warp through, I'm adding sticks between layers of warp so the layers don't tangle or stick together on the beam.
This is the warp beam with about 80% of the warp wrapped on it.
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This is the warp beam with about 80% of the warp wrapped on it.
in other words, it is a warp core !
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Ok y'all get a sort of precis of warping a rug loom tonight.
You set up a warping board, like a peg board. However big your blanket is going to be, divide it down into manageable hanks, like 20-50 warp strings per hank. You stretch each one in a z pattern on the warping board so they're all piled up but no strings cross. Then you pull all that off and loose weave it into a chain so you can pull the strands out but the whole hank doesn't tangle. -
@NilaJones we keep saying "if this thread doesn't discourage people from taking up weaving, NOTHING WILL!"
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@NilaJones @smellsofbikes @elana OH WOW, this is cool! But my brain hurts in trying to figure out how it all fits together.
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@NilaJones we keep saying "if this thread doesn't discourage people from taking up weaving, NOTHING WILL!"
Oh it has definitely discouraged me 😂
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@NilaJones @smellsofbikes @elana OH WOW, this is cool! But my brain hurts in trying to figure out how it all fits together.
@ai6yr @NilaJones yeah one of the overwhelming things about this is that while it's deterministic, there are SO MANY little steps to take and it's hard to tell which are important and which aren't until you've been through it and messed up a couple of times.
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@ai6yr @NilaJones yeah one of the overwhelming things about this is that while it's deterministic, there are SO MANY little steps to take and it's hard to tell which are important and which aren't until you've been through it and messed up a couple of times.
Just your thread has given me so much respect for the generations of people who always had a loom going, always weaving more fabric -- and still only had one new outfit a year or so
I knew it was work, but I didn't know it was this hard
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Just your thread has given me so much respect for the generations of people who always had a loom going, always weaving more fabric -- and still only had one new outfit a year or so
I knew it was work, but I didn't know it was this hard
@NilaJones @smellsofbikes it seems overwhelmingly involved!!! (cool, but it's clear I'd need to sit with someone to understand it better....)
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I'm sure I still have the physical book somewhere. Came with a small booklet with codes. Wonder where in my storage it could be along with my stiffies and floppies with drives that still work.
Be safe
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Well, the post-Caturday catfast has been broken. Back to bed.
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what if we brought the shitiness of internet into the TV broadcasting?
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@binbun3d Thanks for the kind words :)
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Sempre a fianco di chi diserta. A quattro anni dalla guerra in Ucraina – le manifestazioni
@anarchia
In diverse città intorno al 24 febbraio si sono tenute manifestazioni e iniziative antimilitariste. In questa data simbolica, a quattro anni dall’invasione dell’Ucraina da parte della Federazione Russa, si sono tenute iniziative di piazza contro ogni
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@dalias @galacticstone Here there's vegan french tacos but it's more like thicc falafel shawarma.
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Ecco, #GattaLunaFaCose .
E viva le donne!
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Never have seen Mad Max Fury Road for the cultural reference although I’ve heard it’s awesome.
Thunderdome gave me sour milk cow blues, mostly due to its overwhelming presence as a music video vehicle.
