Thank you so much for showing us and greetings from Germany. I'm trying to learn your method so I can use it in my amateur workshop. Liebe Grüße, Astrid
Forty meter warp? That's huge! And you just simply measured another 40 meters again? Wow, that's a lot of work! Do you have a huge warping board? How many yards go into one wrap?
Oh, I don’t use a warping board anymore! I have a different way of measuring. I do have videos that show my method. I do very often do 40 meter warps and even 50 meter warps! Last month we even did a 100 meter warp. Each piece is a different size. Some might be 1.2m and others could be 5.2 meters.
As this is your most recent weaving specific video, I thought I would just leave this comment here. I have a suggestion for a weaving video topic and you are probably very qualified to tackle it. I am curious about the economics of dying versus just buying already dyed threads. Now, obviously in your case you dye because you need to to create the thread you use, but if someone were going to go the route of buying undyed thread and was dying solid colors or more randomly varigated colors themselves, how cost effective is that compared to just buying commercial. Perhaps use 8/2 cotton, something that most weavers probably use somewhat regularly, as an example.
Thanks for your video. I have the same problem warping my back beam. The 2" units wind on at different lengths. Can you tell me how you solved your issue please?
Oh, I just cut them once beamed so that they are all about the same. It’s a little tricky sometimes when one or more are really different. I struggle to decide on if they should go around the beam once more or what. Since most of what I weave is pre-sold though, what I have been doing for several years, is I add two extra meters on top of what I NEED to the length of the warp. That gives me enough of a buffer that it doesn’t really matter. When I end up not needing it, I just weave it off and add the resulting product to my online shop. When I do need it, I’m always happy it’s there!
I had an 8 shaft Artisat at one time and I converted it to a sectional! I love beaming sectionally, and I loved that loom. I’m tight on space, but one day, I would love to get another Artisat.
That looks like a LeClerc tension box, is that right? How many dents are the combs you have with it? Judging from what is for sale, the densest comb available is 15 dent/inch. So if you put more threads than the dents available down into the comb and then tape it up so that the threads are spaced out again, I assume that this is not a problem with your method? Thanks!
It is a Leclerc tension box! I have a wide variety of combs for it! I often use a 10 dent though. It’s more about keeping them in order than anything else, I often have up to three in a dent.
Wow, you're super organized and detail/production-oriented
Thank you. That is very true!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing
You are welcome!
I love your videos so much! ❤
Thank you!!!
Thank you so much for showing us and greetings from Germany. I'm trying to learn your method so I can use it in my amateur workshop.
Liebe Grüße,
Astrid
You're very welcome! Best of luck!!! ❤️
Forty meter warp? That's huge! And you just simply measured another 40 meters again? Wow, that's a lot of work! Do you have a huge warping board? How many yards go into one wrap?
Oh, I don’t use a warping board anymore! I have a different way of measuring. I do have videos that show my method.
I do very often do 40 meter warps and even 50 meter warps! Last month we even did a 100 meter warp.
Each piece is a different size. Some might be 1.2m and others could be 5.2 meters.
As this is your most recent weaving specific video, I thought I would just leave this comment here. I have a suggestion for a weaving video topic and you are probably very qualified to tackle it. I am curious about the economics of dying versus just buying already dyed threads. Now, obviously in your case you dye because you need to to create the thread you use, but if someone were going to go the route of buying undyed thread and was dying solid colors or more randomly varigated colors themselves, how cost effective is that compared to just buying commercial. Perhaps use 8/2 cotton, something that most weavers probably use somewhat regularly, as an example.
Thanks for your video. I have the same problem warping my back beam. The 2" units wind on at different lengths. Can you tell me how you solved your issue please?
Oh, I just cut them once beamed so that they are all about the same. It’s a little tricky sometimes when one or more are really different. I struggle to decide on if they should go around the beam once more or what. Since most of what I weave is pre-sold though, what I have been doing for several years, is I add two extra meters on top of what I NEED to the length of the warp. That gives me enough of a buffer that it doesn’t really matter. When I end up not needing it, I just weave it off and add the resulting product to my online shop. When I do need it, I’m always happy it’s there!
Do you count heddles or just start in the middle of the draft?
I know how many heddles I used on the last warp and adjust them as needed before I start a new warp. I thread from my right.
Would it be silly for me to upgrade my artistat leclerc (4 shaft) by adding a sectional warping beam? 🙈
I had an 8 shaft Artisat at one time and I converted it to a sectional! I love beaming sectionally, and I loved that loom. I’m tight on space, but one day, I would love to get another Artisat.
That looks like a LeClerc tension box, is that right? How many dents are the combs you have with it? Judging from what is for sale, the densest comb available is 15 dent/inch. So if you put more threads than the dents available down into the comb and then tape it up so that the threads are spaced out again, I assume that this is not a problem with your method? Thanks!
It is a Leclerc tension box! I have a wide variety of combs for it! I often use a 10 dent though. It’s more about keeping them in order than anything else, I often have up to three in a dent.