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I was looking for the subject splicing, and found a little mistake in the Guild Season 3 Index:
“-splicing threads for colour changes in weft 3.3.1, 8:53”
should be 3.3.2
(…obviously, since in part 1 Jane is at the board 🙂 …)
Just wanted to let you know, to contribute with my little bit to the overall awesomeness of the Guild and it’s carefully made indexes. Thanks for everything, you all rock!
Thanks for the good words. I’m not giving up: the warp is on the loom and behaving, I hope to reap the fruits of my efforts. But I’ll change my technique for the next one, for sure.
Interesting that you say you cannot master multiple threads – I will less dumb 🙂
Thanks for sharing this!Reporting on the small boxes solution.
It was not good. Not at all. The boxes kept moving, the yarn kept tangling, it was the most difficult warp to thread ever.
When on the loom, it had the dramatic tension issues at beaming the warp. With lease sticks, going very very slow I have beamed it in a shape that looks OK. At the end of the beaming (I warp F2B) there was a difference of sometimes more than 10 cm in length between threads.
Maybe it’s got something to do with the cotton I used (mercerized with much twist).
I’ll have to find a better solution otherwise I’ll never do a color&weave warp ever again!
I’m hoping the gamp will make up for all these difficulties…
Could you tell me where Jane is warping with a paddle? I’ve serached all indexes but couldn’t find anything. Thanks in advance.
Oh, indeed! I went and looked. Beautiful things but pricey.
I’ll start with the boxes. And I will collect bobbins that we have at work for rolls of labels, that will be a nice hack 🙂
Thanks. Buying bobbins from Canada is not really an option (I’m in the Netherlands) – though I wish it was! – but I guess I can find 5 boxes around my house. I’ll give it a try!
How do you manage yarn that is in a cake when warping?
I’ve tried to put it on a dowel in a shoebox but the friction of the cake on the dowel / of the dowel in the showbox is too much, so the yarn tends to slip off the ball and wind itself around the dowel.
When warping with one color I put the cake in a big flower vase and let the cake bounce around. Works great.
However I’m about to warp with several bouts together (for the very first time!) and I don’t have 5 big flower vases…
Thanks. Jane does her cramming with doubling the threads of the warp yarn. Can I assume I’ll get a similar result if I use a yarn of a double thickness with the same sett?
I guess I ought to go and watch the cramming episode again!
What is the function of the cramming on the sides? does it help stabilize an otherwise very open sett?
Maybe Jane says it somewhere, then I must have missed it.
Thanks – I did the second.
I usually don’t like rules much… but as a beginner rules makes me feel safe 🙂New to B2F and puzzled…
When and how are the loops at the end of the warp cut open before threading the heddles?
Did I miss it? I can’t find anything…
