Ask Madelyn: Advancing the Temple
In a recent Ask Madelyn, you talked about temples. Did you really mean to say that you advance the temple every three quarters of an inch?
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In a recent Ask Madelyn, you talked about temples. Did you really mean to say that you advance the temple every three quarters of an inch?
When and how do you insert a temple? They don't come with instructions!
There are some reasons to choose one temple over the other, but none are really “right” or “wrong.”
I know you recommend using a temple (stretcher) when you weave. I have had terrible luck doing that.
One of the earliest things I learned about weaving is that the practice, as a whole, has a truly wonderful vocabulary. We warp the loom, sley the reed, and mess about with heddles and treadles.
Madelyn helps a weaver find good resources for warping her sectional warp beam.
Here’s how to shop at sheep and wool festivals when you want to bring home goodies.
In her Yarn Lab from the March/April 2017 issue of Handwoven, Jodi Ybarra takes cotton and linen yarns loved by mutlti-shaft loom weavers and makes them sing on her rigid-heddle loom.
I wound 2 ends of 8/2 unmercerized cotton and 1 end of 20/2 pearl cotton together. Now I am having all sorts of tension issues with the ends twisted together.
Why do selvedge threads break more on a floor loom than on a table loom?
Reducing draw-in will also prevent your selvedge ends from fraying, but how do you do it?
Novelty yarns are very familiar to knitters, but not something you find in a hard-core weaving shop. Why is this? I think it’s because knitters have a much easier time working fancy yarns into their projects.