Ask Madelyn: Choosing the Right Dent for Your EPI
If I want 30 epi in my warp and I have the choice of an 8-, 12-, or 15-dent reed, which is the best?
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If I want 30 epi in my warp and I have the choice of an 8-, 12-, or 15-dent reed, which is the best?
This weekend, I threaded 430 ends of 20/2 cotton on my loom in 4 shades of gray from Lunatic Fringe’s Tubular Spectrum. It’s an easy threading of plain weave with some crammed ends of 10/2 cotton to create ribs in the fabric.
Madelyn gives advice for counting heddles.
I am weaving some table napkins using a diamond pattern, Periwinkle from Marguerite Davison's A Handweaver's Pattern Book, and I find that the pattern comes out face down, i.e., upside down.
Because my loom is only 36" wide, I’m thinking of weaving the blanket in two panels. What would be the best way to do this?
In our May/June 2019 issue of Handwoven we explore the ways you can adjust your warp to weave multiple projects, structures, or patterns.
What kind of weaver are you?
Floating selvedges should always be weighted. You can choose to beam the floating selvedge with the rest of the warp, or you can add it as an additional thread suspended from the back beam.
I've heard of something called a dummy warp, where some inexpensive yarn is tied to the apron rod and then the real warp is tied to that, so that the cheap yarn becomes the loom waste.
Madelyn explains how to set yourself up for success when weaving doublewidth doubleweave on a jack loom.
With twisty yarns or when you have several ends in a dent, you want to maintain the exact order of the threads from warping board to heddle.
When it comes time to tie on the warp threads at the front, I consistently get a diagonal line of threads, with the threads on one side being shorter than the other.