Note: Complete illustrations for the 2-stick heading are in a previous post HERE
Here’s how to set up to thread without mistakes. You get comfortable and can see the cross clearly.
With the cross hanging vertically, it makes it much easier to see and work from. To do that you need to hang the warp vertically by suspending the cross. Suspend the cross over a stick or something like a broom handle. See figure 175 in Weaving for Beginners. In the Table of Contents see: “Suspend the cross”. In the new version page numbers will be different but the illustration numbers and headings in the Contents will be the same. (Due out first of the year.) Of course, there are more notes on threading in that chapter.
Here is what you’ll see when looking at the cross while threading. Notice how the cross is vertical, not lying flat.
Here is the warp tied on to the front apron rod.
I leave the lease sticks in the cross during weaving. It makes it super easy to locate a broken thread and its heddle. I see this all over the world on my travels. However, you can’t do that if there is too little space for the sticks behind the heddles on your loom.
Since I want to cut off my sample to wash it, etc., I am going to make the 2-stick heading. This is the first step. Weave in 2 sticks. Narrow sticks will take up less warp, but anything will do.
I cut off the sample leaving the 2-stick heading ATTACHED TO THE LOOM.
Here is the heading left on the loom with the sample cut off.
Fold the sticks and tie the heading on to the apron bar with ties 3” or so apart.
At last, the sample is off the loom. I can’t wait to wash it and see what happens; paper is in both warp and weft!
A close up of the weaving in the sampler.