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Warping a Loom Back to
Front
Weaving and Finishing
A few tips in weaving
prettier fabric:
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Weave in small increments
such as an inch or a small repeat midway between the breast beam and
beater. If you try to get the most out of an advance of the
warp by weaving right up next to the breast beam and all the way to
the beater, your edges will be uneven due to the differentiation of
the weft arc.
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Don't handle the selvages.
It will change the tension and the selvages will wave lengthwise
when you take it off the loom and will not come out with
wet-finishing.
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Maintain an even beat and
develop a rhythm.
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When you leave the loom
for a period more than a few hours, release the tension on your
warp. When you return to weave, adjust the tension.
Prior to throwing the first pick, beat once lightly on a closed
shed. (The last pick will have traveled just a little so that
you will be able to see it off the loom.) Open the next shed
and throw a pick.
Step 61: When you
reach the end of a bobbin, overlap in the same shed by a few
bobbins and continue. If you're weaving with a hand
painted, variegated yarn, begin weaving with the same color of
the end of the last bobbin. This is particularly true if
you're working with a directional colorway like the ones I paint
as the color will continue in the same direction.
Step 62: This is a
close-up of the step above. You will leave these ends
until you have washed your scarf.
Step 63: Final end
hem-stitched and the fabric is off the loom. See the weft
ends that were overlapped? When the scarf is wet-finished
and completely dry, these ends will be trimmed off next to the
fabric.
Step 64: This picture shows
both sides of the fabric. There is really no wrong side. But
the side on the left was the one facing up on the loom when
hem-stitched. Hem-stitching looks a little different on the
opposite side. So, I recommend twisting on the same side of the
fabric. The white spots you see are in the loom waste. I
could have decided to trim the fringe shorter but most likely, when the
fringe is twisted, it will barely be noticed and won't bother me.
Step 65: Close-up picture
of hem-stitching and twisted fringe.
Step 66: Picture of finished stole after wet-finishing and a good
hard-press.
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