Just Like Boat Shuttles Do
and Weaves that Hurt Your Eyes
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How to Tie a Weaver's Knot |
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Homemade Counters for Sectional Beaming |
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Yarn Packages and Tension Boxes: How to Wind Warps with Even Tension |
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Combining Sectional and Plain Beaming |
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Warping Drum |
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Lacing On |
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Two-Stick Heading |
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Tying on New Warps. Part One |
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Tying on New Warps. Part Two |
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Beam the Warp Under a Lot of Tension |
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Threading Without Mistakes: Part One |
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Prevent the Loom from Walking: "Firewood Method" |
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Threading without Mistakes: Part Two |
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Jim's Adjustable Loop |
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Kitestick Instead of Chaining Your Warps |
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Two Ways to Tie Lease Sticks |
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Automatic Reed Hook |
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Lease Cord Instead of Lease Sticks |
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Yarn Count Explained: Understanding the Labels on Yarn Packages |
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Color Code Ties to Avoid Twists |
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Choke Ties That Work |
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How to Modify End-feed Shuttles for Narrow Warps |
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End-feed Shuttles Go Back and Forth Just Like Boat Shuttles Do |
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Jim's Fisherman's Knot |
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Crank in the Right Direction |
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Weight Bundles of Warps to Make Threading Easy |
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Weaving Bright Colors and Weaves that Hurt Your Eyes |
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Use a Tension Box to Wind Pirns and Bobbins Tight |
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Making a Raddle |
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McMorran Balance |
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Reed and Sett |
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Beam Your Warps Under Tension |
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Tension--A Good Thing |
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What Looms Do |
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Tying onto the Apron Rod |
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Use Color Coded Ties and Choke Ties to Avoid Twists and Tangles |
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Weaving with Two or More Warps - Part One |
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Weaving with Two or More Warps - Part Two |
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Weaving with Two or More Warps - Part Three |
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Planning a Project |
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The Path on the Warping Board |
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Screw Eyes That "Catch" Fine threads or Let Them Escape |
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A Special Bow |
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How Many Ounces Are in a 50-gram Ball of Yarn? |
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A Better Way to Use Paper for Winding Warps |
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Some Yarns Twist Severely in the Raddle Groups |
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The Doubling Stand and Tension Box |
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Avoiding Twists in the Raddle Groups |
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More About Yarns: Unbalanced, Plied, and Single |
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Tie On a New Warp to the Old Behind the Heddles |
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Lease Sticks: In or Out During Weaving? |
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Size of Lease Sticks Is Important |
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Sett |
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Ashenhurst Rule |
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Sett: Allowing for the Purpose |
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Sett: Making Your Weaving Easier |
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Sett for Balanced, Warp-faced, and Weft-faced Fabrics |
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Weaver's Knot and Different Ways to Make It: Part I |
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Weaver's Knot--Part II: When One End Is Very Short |
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Weaver's Knot--Part III: The Rabbit Hole Story |
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Weaver's Knot--Part IV: Double Weaver's Knot |
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How Drafts Are Read |
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A Trick When You Must Unweave a Single Weft |
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Backlash -- How to Overcome the Inertia |
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Doubling Stand |
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Wrapping Fringe |
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Unwinding Skeins |
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Troubleshooting: Warp Yarn Pills, Frays, or Breaks |
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Sett Charts |
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Cutting Yarn Tails |
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Loom Waste |
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Tying a New Warp to an Old One |
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Pre-sleying a Reed |
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Allowing for Shrinkage |
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Narrow Warps: Another Approach |
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Why Make Two Crosses (Leases)? |
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Crossed Warp Threads and How to Fix Them |
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Can't Get a Shed? |
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Repairing a Broken Warp |
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Plain Weaves Wider Than Twills |
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Why Warp Back-to-Front |
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Keeping Count |
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The Path on the Warping Board |
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Tie the End Loops |
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Lacing On |
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Warping Drum: Part One |
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Warping Drum: Part Two |
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Warping Drum: Part Three |
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Hemstitching |
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Boat Shuttle Bobbins |
Check out my 3 books and video workshop:
Book 1: "Winding a Warp and Using a Paddle"
Book 2:
"Warping Your Loom and Tying On New Warps"
Book 3: "Weaving and Drafting Your Own Cloth"
Video Workshop: Warping the Loom --- Back to Front
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