Sleying the Reed - a New Way
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- Trying a new method of Sleying the Reed on my Louet Spring I Loom. I saw this method somewhere, I think it was on Facebook, and decided to give it a try. Take a look and see what you think of this new method.
Hi, I also slay my Glimakra Standard like this. But with cotton or cottolin I do not use a hook, I just fold the thread, push the folded end through the read and grab it with the other hand from below. This spares the time for searching the right slit. I finf this even more rapid. Best greetings from Potsdam Verena
The spring 2 came with clamps to stick it to the shuttle race and you then do it flat. It does have some bonus i do think some of it is what you’re used to mind. Changing anything takes getting used to
That's how i sley my reed too, though i warp front to back. I use old curtain rods to hold the reed in place. Using clamps is a much sturdier way, I'll have to try that. I learned this method from watching a tom knisely video. It's so much easier to see each dent. Thanks for all you share.
That's how I sley the reed. Been doing it that way for a few years and just like rainbow gal, I learned it from a tom knisley video...😊
Oh how my aching shoulder wishes I’d have seen this 2 hours earlier! I just finished threading my reed with 430 ends, lol. It never occurred to me to do this, but now it makes perfect sense! Thanks so much!
So nice to see you are still weaving and sharing! I first found you a lot of years ago after I was gifted a David. Then Life got in the way of my weaving and I am just back. Finished loom assembly and happy to see this way of sleying.
Absolutely worth trying as sleying the reed is probably the most difficult thing I have to do with my tremors. Thanks.
I have a Glimakra and this is how I've always sleyed the reed. I can lift the beater off and rest the reed on the side frames of the loom; no clamps needed. You're right, it really does go easier on the shoulders! Love your videos.Thank you
Looks good! I have done it this way off loom to rough sley before beaming. One way to help find the next dent without having to feel for it underneath is to use a double ended sleying hook with no handle. Then you can drop it through the dent from the top. Catch it with your underneath hand and hook the thread.
so beautiful colors for spring. great video
I am so glad to find this. I bought a Baby Wolf loom years ago and life conspired to keep me from using it for the last 15 years. So now I am learning all the things to give this beautiful loom a try with no store or anyone to help me learn. I have been rigid heddle weaving for the last year on a Schact Flip so not all the concepts are foreign. The whole threading heddles and slaying the reed thing on the Baby Wolf though was proving pretty intimidating. Your ability to explain it simply makes the whole thing approachable to me. Thank You so Very much!
I hope you will soon be making lovely projects
Certainly worth trying! May I make a recommendation? In stead of C-clamps keeping yougingr beater assembly upright, and possibly damaging your loom's finish, perhaps try soft ties instead? I use soft ties and secure the beater upright from the sides of the castle to the beater post, and then another tie from the beater post to the front leg. I do with both sides and it's very secure and no wobblies at all. I have a Spring 1 that was new in 2008 and she a real work horse!
I sley my reed this way on my Swedish floor loom (Oxaback), resting it on wooden rails my husband made for me that I can temporarily insert from back to front beams on either side of the loom. I have always tied the reed on with string for security but I really like the clamps idea! A horizontal reed is so much easier to sley and like your other subscriber I have Tom Knisely to thank for this method. Happy weaving!
thank you for showing this I will give it a try especially as I have just put on a warp of over 1200 ends in 60/2 silk which can make the arms ache when slaying the reed this way looks like it could be more comfortable way of doing it 👍
1200+ threads scare me! I've never woven silk, I suspect I could learn, but just have never felt the need to try.
Thankyou so much for your videos...so helpful for us (hubby and I), as we are raw beginners.
Thanx
I have tried this method now and it is great. Thank you for showing.
Wondermous
Hi! Always enjoy your videos. I have a David 3. Where did you get that reed hook? I'd love to get one. Thanks, Jill, Oregon
I bought that Reed hook at Vavstuga, 10 years ago, when I took a class there.
@curmudgeon66 thank you so much!
Can't wait to try this method. Thank you so much for sharing...
I'm going to try this!
Thanks for the instructions will be trying that out.👏🏻❤️
Thank you for sharing. I shall certainly try it.
Thank you for sharing this method. Will be trying this, seems like it would be easier on the shoulder joints.
Looks so much more relaxing. I have to try this.
Thank you for sharing this method. Will be trying it out.
While I kind thought by the title "Sleying the Reed" it might involve dragons and warriors on a quest, it was a very interesting video nonetheless. I love it when we find new ways to do things that make tasks easier and more pleasant. While I don't know much about it, your new method sure looks more efficient and fun than before. Nice!
I am going to have to try this on my David, it may save my shoulders and back, thank you
I have certainly seen people who warp front to back do this off loom (reed clamped to edge of a table) and then carry the reed and sticks over to the loom and install together before threading the heddles. Either way, it seems like a good way to go. And for people that sley without a hook, it has to be even easier still since you can so clearly see the dents in good overhead light...and without stooping.
My friend has sleyed the reed like that for decades and taught me to do it that way, but uses lengths of wood like 1x2’s that go from front to back under either side of the reed to support it.
Surprise of surprises. You caught me by unaware....
Lol. I have seen this method on TH-cam before. Love the colors on the end. That does look easier. Not having to reach as far and bend you back to find the threads. Did you time yourself by chance? Would be interesting.
Happy to know I caught you in your unawares. No, i did not time self, but it felt faster. Same colors you saw in the photo yesterday. Thinkin white, green and maybe red for weft, havent decided yet.
@@curmudgeon66 yes, but they seem brighter in the video vs the picture.
Laura Fry teaches this in a School of Sweet Georgia class, with slight variations. I must try it!
Please let me know the company that manufactured the reeds used.
I bought that Reed over 10 years ago. Probably from the Woolery or from Yarnbarn of Kansas, I don't remember.
That’s how Tom Knisely slays the reed
Thanks - hoping to get to my first reed sleying soon and this looks so much more comfortable than doing it vertically. What size reed are you using? My project will have 8/4 cotton as well...
As you may notice in the video, over my shoulder there are more reeds. I have 8 dent, 10 dent, and 12 dent. I don't remember which one I used in this video, I think it was probably the 10 dent, but I am not sure any more.
For 8/4 cotton I would probably do about 12 epi, so the 12 dent reed.
@@curmudgeon66 I only have a 10 and a 6, so used the 10. The method you used for sleying the reed was SO easy and it worked like a charm.
This is the way I sley my reed. It is very easy. Better than your first methood
Thanks for showing this. You mentioned lights under your castle.what a great idea! Are they LED? And did you use screws to attach them? I just love your videos. Keep on keeping on.
LEDs that are designed as under cabinet kitchen lights, held on with double sided sticky strips
I slay my reed like this, I have one change I thread the heddle and slay the reed at the same time. Thread heddle and slay the reed without letting go of the thread. I also use a all metal harrisville reed hook that I drop from the top. seems quicker to me
Like the old lighting
Also, I have a pulled rotator cuff and sleying the reed this way is soooo much better on my shoulder, lol
I understand about the rotator, I've had complete shoulder replacement on the right, and left shoulder has arthritis. I find tieing up the treadle very painful.
This is the standard method in Finland, but the reed is hanging on thread loops from the top of the loom.