#5 TTS Notebook - Threading a Larger Loom

I love learning to weave.  My first projects have been scarves on a four-shaft loom.

I was inspired by an account in the Foxfire series about a woman who wove a slip which she was still wearing after forty years.

I decided I wanted to make fabric for a dress.  To do so, I needed to make a much wider project.

I created the warp for a 45 inch, eight shaft loom, my first experience creating such a large project.

I began threading the warp through the metal heddles.

Here is what is left to thread, now that I have started.

Tying groups of thread together so they don't pull back out! 

I did finish the threading process and now I am ready to start tying each group of threads to the back beam so I can roll them around it to start weaving from the front beam.

© 2018 Kathryn Hardage