Check out my website Replyĭear Sandra, Theoretically your shafts are not heavy enough! That means the shafts not lifted aren’t heavy enough to stay DOWN. That book has a whole chapter on how the different types of looms work and how to tie up the treadles. I suggest you get as your free gift, the PDF of my Book #2: Warping Your Loom & tying On New Warps. Now, during the Holiday sale you can get a book free with a book purchased. there is a lot of information with tons of illustrations. I think getting my book Weaving for Beginners is a must for you. Your loom may be a counter balance loom which likes always to have two shafts up and 2, down for the cleanest sheds. We call it walking the treadles when you alternate your feet. If you tie them in the order I suggest, you can weave all the combinations possible with 4 shafts and most often alternate your feet for efficiency and ease. there are many ways for different structures and patterns. That’s the 4-treadle sequence for a balanced twill. Row 2 press the treadles for shafts 2 & 3. Then you would really dance on the treadles: row 1: treadle shafts 1&2. Now, sometime you may want to weave a twill (diagonals in the cloth) which is a weave often used or variations of it. Pressing 2 treadles at a time balances with always 2 shaft up and 2 shafts down = plain weave (tabby). (you accomplished the same thing but with different shafts. press the two left treadles together with the left foot and the two right treadles with the right foot–you’ll alternate feet which makes a good rhythm. the next treadle gets shaft 3 then continuing going left to right, tie the next treadle to shaft 4 and the last one tie to shaft 2. Going from left to right tie shaft 1 to the left hand treadle. I will try to explain your questions after the tie up. You did almost exactly what I suggested, but here is it exactly. I’m glad you got your treadles tied up and working. I think the floats you don’t like are what you would normally get with a jack loom if you were treadling a 1/3 twill (one up and 3 down). Counterbalance looms like to have 1/2 the shafts up and 1/2 down for the sheds. If that doesn’t work, can you email me a photo of the loom? I’m not sure why you are trying to tie only one shaft to a treadle in the first place. If two go up when you press a treadle that has two tied to it to go down, you have a counterbalance. Try the first option to see if you have a counterbalance loom. There are lams that are for going up and others for going down. If it is a countermarch loom, you must tie all four shafts to each treadle: the ones to go UP and the ones that go DOWN. 1 & 2) to a treadle, when you press the treadle, those 2 shafts will go DOWN and the other 2 shafts (3,4) will automatically go UP. Why don’t you try tying 2 shafts to a treadle like for a jack loom? If it is a counterbalance loom as you think, if you tie two shafts (eg. My family is German, Cherokee and Scottish…LOL…what a combination…:) Reply No tithes etc.ĭakota LongSuffering (yes that really is my name-lol) I’m Greek Orthodox in my faith and lived as a novice sister this is the name I was given. Can you help me somehow I use my SS disability check for everything. There is no work in our community southern Ohio except for the Uranium (cancer producing plant) so this little non-retail shop is a women’s ministry to teach women here how to make products to sell on ebay to help take care of their families. I broke two discs in my lower back and have a bulging one on the upper level, 7 abdomen surgeries, broken pelvis and a brain aneurysm….pathetic….but I give GOD literally thanks for every day I have and am living…I use my time wisely…teaching and helping others. I live on SS permanent disability and it takes all I have to stand, bend, twist etc on these looms to attempt to teach new students. I need the one for beginners, the one on warping on the warping board (does it include how to do the calculations for your project?), I need the warping from back to front of the loom as well….how much would all of your books I saw minus the collection you’ve done (ITS BEAUTIFUL!) I just cant afford that much right now.
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