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I haven't done any weaving for ages, with all the other pressures on our time over recent months, so at the weekend I decided to continue with my project to weave a rag rug, planned with a striped colour scheme in mind to suit the material I had acquired.
I had written the proposed pattern down in my log book, and had threaded my first chain with relish... followed by the second and finally the third, realising that when I'd completed it, I had the first in the wrong direction...
So how to put this stupid mistake right....... of course to stop getting the whole thing in knots it also had to be turned over... like turning a piece of paper, making the left edge turn into the right...
I started by taking the farthest left warp thread, threading it into the next dent in the correct position on the right.. working systematically in sets of 6 threads at a time, draping them over the front beam in the right order, threading, then tying the batch out of the way over the top of the beater, above the threads which were still in same dents..... eventually working underneath so as to turn the whole thing over... it worked like a dream and you can see the result...
All the colours in the right order.. even the reinforced selvedge is correct!!
I wondered why I had 16 threads in the middle stripe next to the same colour of 12... Ah well I won't do that again!!
I had written the proposed pattern down in my log book, and had threaded my first chain with relish... followed by the second and finally the third, realising that when I'd completed it, I had the first in the wrong direction...
So how to put this stupid mistake right....... of course to stop getting the whole thing in knots it also had to be turned over... like turning a piece of paper, making the left edge turn into the right...
I started by taking the farthest left warp thread, threading it into the next dent in the correct position on the right.. working systematically in sets of 6 threads at a time, draping them over the front beam in the right order, threading, then tying the batch out of the way over the top of the beater, above the threads which were still in same dents..... eventually working underneath so as to turn the whole thing over... it worked like a dream and you can see the result...
All the colours in the right order.. even the reinforced selvedge is correct!!
I wondered why I had 16 threads in the middle stripe next to the same colour of 12... Ah well I won't do that again!!
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