Ask Madelyn: The Loose Sett Blues
Madelyn explains how to know if you're weaving at the wrong sett and whether or not you need to re-beam if your sett is too loose.
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Madelyn explains how to know if you're weaving at the wrong sett and whether or not you need to re-beam if your sett is too loose.
There's no right answer for how to warp a loom. Warping a loom front to back might be right for one project, back to front for another. Here's why.
This step-by-step tutorial on how to fix a broken warp thread on a rigid-heddle loom will teach you to quickly and easily fix these pesky weaving problems.
A reader asks Madelyn for some clarification about floating selvedges.
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Is there an easy way to sley two, three, or four different warps (hand-dyed) together?
Two yarns may look similar in grist but in reality they are very different and need to be sett differently too.
What is the difference between the Portee Cross and Porrey Cross?
How do you clean heddles?
As a beginning weaver, how do you know what reed and yarn to use for towels?
When a warp has lots of color changes, what is the easiest and least time consuming method to wind them??