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Hi Betty,
Another resource that is available to everyone is Jane’s Helpline that you can find a link to on JST’s main website. There are questions and Jane’s answers that have been collected and put in the Helpline over a number of years. It’s an amazing “first stop” resource.
A search for “raddle” brought up a number of questions that have been asked – including the answer to your question. https://janestaffordtextiles.com/faq/metric-versus-imperial-reeds-and-raddles/
Hope this helps!
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My question regards ‘not spitting up families’. I have a chain of 4 ends of rayon chenille to try and spread along the raddle of my Spring loom. Am I right in thinking that I should use three sets of four ends (12 ends per inch) and leave a space between each in the 5 raddle space? Does this make sense to anyone? I spent a lot of the early morning sleep going over and over it in my head to try to figure out what to do without splitting the ‘families’ up. TIA
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Hi Sasha, I’ve had to do something similar to accommodate my multiple threads and to keep them together. If I recall, I had at least one empty dent per inch on my David raddle. I think your thoughts on leaving an empty space in between each set of 4 threads will be ok. It’s better to keep those 4 threads together.
Ginette
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Hi Kids,
This may be the perfect time to cover the Louet raddle and use a home made raddle. I always found that stuffing ends of chenille into the Louet raddle put too much tension on the warp as it was wound on. I always clamped a wider raddle over top….like I do right at the beginning of lesson one.
Jane.
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