All the snags I ran into related to warp tension. Except for the ones relating to remembering which way I'm turning cards. The latter has to do with my slowness as a beginner. By the time I pass the shuttle, beat down, and remember the little loop at the end of the pass, I forget whether I turn forward or back.
Hence the thimbles and card marked with directions. I was trying to do four forward, four back, turns, that is. I have to come up with a better solution, since I started forgetting which thimble I last moved! Transferring rather than solving the issue. I noticed the problem abated a bit as I progressed. It's like learning to read knitting, seeing what part of the pattern you're at.
I also realized that I have to keep telling myself which is forward, which is back. That's probably just me, since I have the same issue with clocks forward and back, and scheduling. If you move the meeting back, do you mean earlier or later?
I learned useful skills in the course of getting things wrong, such as how to unweave a few passes, how to untie the warp ends to relieve twisting that builds up and stops the action.
Tapestry is much simpler in some ways.
All in all, a lot of learning, also some fun.
Now the cards are back in the box, tools ready for the next try.
I never was clear, either, on what 'moving a meeting back" meant...and I can understand how complicated it can get, learning not one thing but forty-leben parts of the process all at once.
ReplyDeleteI had a suggestion, which may or not be useful--instead of using thimbles-as-markers, (they being identical and hard to 'read'), how about small bits of colored/numbered cardboard 'markers', so that there's a certain obvious order to them instead of "um now which silver thimble did I move last...".
This is fascinating, btw. I have a 32" 4 harness loom I bought from a friend years ago, and when we get the parlor opened up a bit more as to space, that's where it's going. There is something so amazingly soothing about all of it...
Numbering. Now that's good. I'll try that. The hitch still being did I move it before or after turning the cards. The more experience I get, the better, to see about developing a rhythm, such as turn, move marker, pass, beat. Or something.
ReplyDeleteLovely that you're going to weave. Or weave again, if that's the case.
Hah - the moving back issue is similar to whether you turn the a/c up or down to get cooler....always a mystery to me. Regarding the thimble issue - what about two pieces of paper on either side and a pencil to add a tick mark each time you complete a pass? I know nothing of what I speak however!
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