The blue cotton was a
mystery cone that I didn’t know how much was on it so I pulled the warp in 50
thread groups. And I tied on from the
middle of the warp so if I ran out I could change the pattern as I needed. Thankfully I was able to squeak out enough
for the entire warp although I did make the warp short but the width remained
the same.
For the weft I used white
cotton, actually the same stuff that was the warp in the previous runners (it
is a really big cone of white cotton!).
I love blue and white colour combination; it’s so clean and classic.
The last 6 inches of
weaving was terrible. I had eased the
knots through the heddles and they were sitting just behind the beater. Every time I changed treadles I had to clear
the shed, all the knots were sticking.
How come the knots were OK behind the heddles but in front they were a
sticky mess?! I was able to slowly weave
until I was 4 inches away from the knots.
I don’t think that I will
tie on another warp. I don’t think that
it actually is a faster warping process than what I do now. I don’t think that it saves me any warp
either. This time I was able to have
only 4 inches of warp waste but next time I wouldn’t weave with the knots past
the heddles so I wouldn’t save any warp.
I just found the whole process tedious, slow and frustrating.
But the runners are off the
loom. They are sitting in a pile waiting
to be washed. I hope to get to them
sometime this week. They look great and
I can’t wait to see them washed, hemmed and on a table!
7 comments:
beautiful runners!
I totally agree with you on it not really being a time savings by tying on a warp. Maybe if it were a mega rug warp with not many ends....but that's not what I weave.
I often wondered if tying on was worth all that effort... and so thank you for sharing your details.
The runner pattern is quite striking and I guess my favourite is the darker blue!
Susan
Wow! My hat is off to you for weaving through the knots making it through the heddles again! Just look at how little waste you truly had!!I'm not sure I would have had the patience to work through as far as you did, but the piece is striking with the blue! I don't recall from the last post; is this a variant of the Star of Bethlehem pattern?
Hi Linda,
Yup, the pattern is a variation of Star of Bethlehem, you have a good eye!
Ngaire
What a lovely runner! Thanks for sharing your experience with tying on a warp.
I LOVE these!!!!
Your runners are beautiful! I've tied on when weaving the same design in different colors and liked it because that way I didn't need to look for threading problems each time. So, even though it didn't save me time when putting the warp on, I thought it was worth it when doing a more difficult threading where I had to fix threading errors in the first warp, because once they were fixed, they stayed fixed.
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