(click on fotos for enlargement)In the background the 60+ lbs./@30kg of old bedsheets for the weaving rags. On the loom the new rug for in front of the Door. Below, the rug finished.
It's a little bit narrower on one end. I still need to work on that, but I am learning. I am also trying to think out how to make extra heddles/ harnesses for this loom so that I can do twill weaving. I need to find somewhere that has a loom set up so that I can see how they work.
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I do envy your vävstuga and wished my kitchen had room for a loom and that my kitchen table just would be a kitchen table.
And I can´t help it but I must give you another advice and I hope this is compahandable. When you weaw put the stripe about 15 cm above the weft. Then you make three big waves by lower the stripe dowm to the weft at two points. And then you "bommar", I don´t know what a "bomm" is called in english. Then the weaw will be straighter on the edges and there wont be a risk to make an hourglas. Well it cab at least be worth a try :-)Ulf
Thanks Ulf, I'll try that. Bommar is a tough word to find a translation for. I think it roughly translates to the word boom which is the long bar thing at the lower edge of a sail. Maybe in weaving it is called the beater bar. I know what you mean though. You mean to beat it into place evenly across the warp.
Exacly and what you achive by making those wawes is that the warp goes straight from start til end and the weft goes over and under the warp
Ulf, here's the Glimakra U.S.A. glossary of weaving terms.
http://www.glimakrausa.com/glossary.html
It seems we call the bomm is a beater or batten.
:-) How did manage before internet?
Before internet we lived bleak, lonesome, uninformed lives;P
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