Peggy’s Weaving Tips

How to Make Lark’s Head Knots
Using the Two-stick Heading
Homemade Counter for Sectional Beaming
Yarn Packages and Tension Boxes:
Combining Sectional and Plain Beaming
Warping Drum
Lacing On
Two-Stick Heading
Tying a New Warp to an Old One: Part One
Tying on New Warps the New Way. Part Two
Beam the Warp Under a Lot of Tension
Threading Without Mistakes: Part One
Prevent the Loom from Walking: “Firewood Method”
Threading Without Mistakes: Part Two
Jim’s Adjustable Loop
Kitestick Instead of Chaining Your Warps
Two Ways to Tie Lease Sticks
Automatic Reed Hook
Lease Cord Instead of Lease Sticks
Yarn Count Explained: Understanding the Labels on Yarn Packages
End-feed Shuttles Go Back and Forth Like Boat Shuttles
Jim’s Fisherman’s Knot
Crank in the Right Direction
Weight Bundles of Warps to Make Threading Easy
Use a Tension Box to Wind Pirns and Bobbins Tight
Making a Special Raddle
McMorran Balance
Beam Your Warps Under Tension
What Looms Do
Tying onto the Apron Rod
Use Color Coded Ties to Avoid Twists and Tangles
Weaving With Two or More Warps: Part One
Weaving with Two or More Warps: Part Two
 Weaving with Two or More Warps: Part Three
Planning a Project
The Path on the Warping Board
 Screw Eyes The “Catch” fine Threads
A Special Bow
How Many Ounces in a 50-gram Ball?
A Better Way to use Paper for Winding Warps
Some Yarns Twist Severely in Raddle Groups
The doubling Stand and Tension Box
Avoiding Twists in the Raddle Groups
More About Yarns: Unbalanced, Plied, Singles
Lease Sticks: In or Out During Weaving?
Size of Lease Sticks is Important
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Ashnenhurt Rule
Sett: Allowing for the Purpose
Sett: Making Your Weaving Easier
Sett for Balanced, Warp-faced, and Weft-faced Fabrics
Weaver’s Knot and Different Ways to Make It: Part I
Weaver’s Knot: Part II: When One End is Short
Weaver’s Knot: Part III: The Rabbit Hole Story
Weaver’s Knot: part IV: Double Weaver’s Knot
How Drafts Are Read
A Trick When You Must Unweave a Single Weft
Boat Shuttle Tips
For Your Weaving: a Beautiful Fringe
Unwinding Skeins
Warp Yarn Pills, Frays, Breaks
Sett Charts
Cutting Yarn Tails
Loom Waste
Tying a new Warp to an Old One
Pre-sleying a Reed
Allowing for Shrinkage
Narrow Warps: Another Approach
Why Make Two Crosses (Leases)
Crossed Warp Threads and How to Fix Them
Can’t Get a Shed?
Repairing a Broken Warp
Plain Weaves Are Wider than Twills
Why Warp Back-to-Front
Keeping Count
The Path on the Warping Board
Tie the End Loops
Lacing On
Warping Drum: Part One
Warping Drum: Part Two
Warping Drum: Part Three
Hemstitching
Boat Shuttle Bobbins
Manufacturer’s Knots
Try Tying on New Warps This Way
Using a Temple or Stretcher (Croc Clips)
Why Use a Paddle
Sheds Too Small

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