I know some of are very unfamiliar with how my loom is warped. I found a video on the Leclrec loom site. Just scroll down the page to the sectional beam warping video and click to play. it is a 15 minute video, though only about the first 10-12 minutes deal with the warping on.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
sectional beam warping
I know some of are very unfamiliar with how my loom is warped. I found a video on the Leclrec loom site. Just scroll down the page to the sectional beam warping video and click to play. it is a 15 minute video, though only about the first 10-12 minutes deal with the warping on.
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Now I understand a little bit better how you loom works. As I said before, it´s different from european lomms.
Ja Ulf! I am now trying to figure out how to add a 3rd Harness. I'm thinking that it could be a fixed harness and when one treadles the other 2 up or down it will alternatly double the threads in each pass of the shuttle.
Just remember that you don´t have to use every heddle. If you have for example 60 threads/ 10 cm diveded on 3 harnesses you can use every second heddle and have 30 threads( 10 cm diveded on 3 harnesses. More harnesses means that you can weaw other types of weft but not neccerely more warp threads. Twill on 3 harnesses is the oldest type of twill.
But as the handy man you are it will probably be fine whatever you decide to do.
I am starting to get an idea of how I might add 2 more harnesses.
They would have string heddles. It would be sort of a swedish american loom then ;D
I need to do a little more reading and figure out what Lamms are for. I know they go between the treadle and the harness, but I don't yet have a clear picture of their function. I wound and chained off the warp that was in place and made a modification, I'll write about that later. Winding back on from the front though has given me an understanding of what a raddle and cross stick are for.
Ok be with me here when I try to explain. Lamm is also called "lattor" in swedish and is a wooden stick with holes is and the stick goes from the side of the lomm. A rope is tied to the lower shaft bar through a hole and is fasten with a knot or a little plastic divise. The a rope i tied from the heardle to the loom. You can tie many shaft bars to a lamm and then tie the lamm to a heardle. So when you step on a heardle as many harness or shaft bars goes down as you want. For example if you are weawing 4-shafted twill equall on both sides you tie shaft number 1 and 2, 2 and 3, 3 and 4, 1 and 4 to a lamm but just on lamm to each heardle. You could also tie the shaft bars directly to the heardles but then you have to step heardle 1 and 2, 2 and 3, 3 and 4 , 4 and 1 for the same result, 2 heardles at the same time. And if you want to change to a other type of weawining you just change the ties on the heardles.
I hope this made sense, You don´t have to have lamms but they are very praktical
I was so consentrated on explaining so it was a lot of lot wrong spelling but I hope you get the idea
Okay, I'm starting to understand. At this point I don't need them, but may someday if I convert the loom to more than 2 or 3 harnesses.
An easy retrofit if I'm understanding the photos I've seen correctly. Don't worry about your spelling Ulf, I'm getting pretty good at reading ulfisch ;-P
And I saw a mistake, you tie one lamm to one shaft but as many lamms as you want to a heardle.
I don´t want to look stupid for your other readers :´)
Don't worry Ulf, there aren't many other readers, especially ones that would be able to follow the conversation ;-)
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