Weaving Tips
| swakins |
I use PVC for my lease sticks, holes are drilled in the ends and I use knitting stitch holders (the kind that look like giant safety pins) to hold them together. |
| Lolli Smith |
I use a gate counter, that is worn on your finger, to help me keep up with counting warp threads as I warp. |
| Lolli Smith |
I use the inexpensive rubber drawer liners under my table loom to keep them from slipping and to prevent marring the table surface under the loom. |
| joydidit |
To keep track of tartan color blocks, use a cribbage board to mark rows completed. |
| laurie b |
Listen, watch and learn from all the experience that is around you. Pay very close attention! You don't want to miss anything! |
| mama1108 |
Have only been weaving a short time and haven't any great tips except to keep the cats out of the room when warping the loom. |
| Clerk Barb |
Learn to warp! |
| janestewart12 |
Make it perfect and nice. |
| goldensal |
Surgeon's knots for tying on to apron rod. Tighten, then half bows for final tie. |
| georgechrist |
When warping back-to-front, I use 1/2" elastic to hold the lease sticks in place so I can thread the heddles. To hold them in place, I use two lengths of 1/2" elastic, about 3 yards in length each. I fold the elastic in half and put them around the back beam. Then I weave the two ends of one elastic through the lease sticks at one edge and then tie the elastic to the front beam. Repeat with the other length of elastic on the other end of the lease sticks. If I need to also use a front set of lease sticks, the elastic will hold them in place as well. They can also help maintain tension when winding the warp on. |
