Warp worksheet

01-10-2023
Loom and warp: Louie #07
Pattern: Italian Monk’s Belt.
Materials: 8/2 cotton for warp and tabby weft, 1680 yds per spool.
Color: white.

Width: about 22” (towel)
Epi: 16
Reed: 12 dpi (1-1-2)

Initial warp ends: 22” x 16 epi = 352
Initial pattern repeat: / 48 ends
= 7.3333 (patterns)

48 ends * 8 = 384 ends. / 16 epi = 24”. Too wide.

352 + 16 = 368 ends / 16 epi = 23”.
370 ends (includes 2 floating selvedges.)

Warp Length

5 yards
4 towels

5 yds * 370 ends = 1850 yds. 1+ spools WHITE.
1680 +170 yds

Winding Warp

X 16 * 6 = 96
X 16 * 6 = 96
X 16 * 6 = 96
X 16 * 5 = 80 + 2 ends
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370

Threading Heddles

REMEMBER TO THREAD 4-3-2-1 four times FIRST before beginning the draft.

This is going slowly.

02/04/2023: Half is threaded.

02/07/2023: All threaded. Whew! I don’t know why this took so long.

Sleying Reed

1-1-2 ends in a 12-dent reed to get 16 ends per inch.

Done 02/9/23.

Tieing On

Done 2/10/2023.

The pattern thread is followed by the tabby.

I started weaving, but the warp is 1/2” too high. Consequently, the shuttle catches the warp threads about half way across. I don’t know how to fix it. Guess I’ll have to ask over in the LeClerc group.

Meanwhile, I’m using a rag shuttle to avoid picking up extra ends.

2/10/23

I.
Tabby =white 8/2
Pattern = Saumon 8/4

2/11: wound the shuttle again with saumon.
2/11: wound a second shuttle with blanchi. I tried the regular LeClerc shuttle with the closed bottom. It works.

Note: After I finished the first towel, the reed fell out of the holder. Months later, Jim put it back in for me.

II.

A. One shot of pattern (SAUMON)on 1&2, then one shot of tabby (WHITE), first on 2&4, then on 1&3. (4 shots pattern.)
B. One shot of pattern on 3&4, then one shot of tabby, first on 2&4, then on 1&3. (4 shots pattern.)
A. One shot of pattern on 1&2, then one shot of tabby, first on 2&4, then on 1&3. (4 shots pattern.)
C. To separate: 2&4 with pattern, 1&3 with tabby, 4 times.
Repeat for pattern.

Phew! Done 7/2/23. I only had to tighten the reed once.

III.

7/4/23.
USING turquoise, doubled, for pattern.
Using threading I. Use tabby.
3&4 pattern, 4 times.
(1&2, 3&4), 8 times.
1&2 pattern, 4 times.
(3&4, 1&2), 8 times.

7/5/23:

The upright metal bar fell out of the left side of the reed assembly.
What the heck???

7/6/23:

Ok. Jim helped me fix the other side of the reed holder. Back in business. The only problem is that the wood is hitting the uprights. I’ll fix that when I finish the towels.

7/7/23:

Worked 6”.

7/8/23:

Finished.

IV.

Started one with brick pattern.
Worked 12”.

7/9/23:

Finished the brick towel.

V.

Started one with shadow-y pattern (reversed position of tabby and pattern.)

Shadow-y is from Helene Bress, The Weaving Book,
p. 364.

7/10/23:

Worked one repeat of regular “Italian monk’s belt” as an accent after a little bit of the shadow-y pattern. Then returned to shadow-y.

7/13/23:

I got about 18” out of the 5th “towel.”

Cut everything off the loom.

7/13/23: A

1/10 - 2/10 to get the loom ready to weave.
2/10 - 7/13 to weave the projects. Wow. I think I’ll do the rest of the monk’s belt projects on Love.

10/19/23

Towels 1, 3, 4, and 5 are hemmed.
Towel 2 still needs to be redone.

10/24/23:

Towel 2 rehemmed today.

All towels pressed.

Pictures in the morning.