![]() Tension when you beam on must be equal to or greater than the tension you use when you weave. I'm not a fan of crank and yank, I use a method like francorios, a cement block in a bag that I drag across the floor or table. You can overcome this problem by devising a way to hold your heddle/s in a neutral position ( no shed, all warps in the same plane) while tieing on. Part of your problem is that you are tieing on with the shed open (because the Beka has no neutral position) and that makes one shed 's threads longer than the other shed's. It has metal rachets on both beams and a neutral position for threading and tie on. I'm with Claudia, I got rid of mine and love my Leclerc Bergere 24". Ugh! I did many projects on it, it developed my 4 letter word vocabuarly. As you turn the warp beam to wind on warp one side loosens and the other side tightens. I had a recent Beka RH loom that had no rachet to hold the back and front beams, just knobs that twisted down. Submitted by sequel (not verified) on Fri, - 14:14 ![]() I learned about not chaining warps at Convergence 2002 from Diane Mortensen, and have been a fan ever since. (I DO use choke ties.) If you are worried about tangles, just drop them into a baggie to contain them. (Be careful tho' - an ironing board can be tippy!)Īnd yes, you may notice I do not chain my warps. (And I don't have a high ceiling for the full trapeze, so that is how I evolved to the water bottles for now.) As soon as I get more space, I am building a trapeze! -)įor my smaller looms, I clamp them to the back/flat end of the ironing board at the tallest setting so I have the greatest distance from loom to floor. I also don't have a lot of floor space front and back of my loom, so going vertical helped me solve that problem. I had to collect the warp into a single pile (or two) to fit under the stack of books for wide warps, so sometimes that fed into the reed a bit differently on the sides than the middle. The bottles hang directly from the reed in a straight line. I used to use the book method (a stack of big coffee table art books work great!) but migrated to the bottles as a refinement. I tie nooses around the necks of the bottles, and use a clothes pin to hold, for easy on/easy off. With this method, I can beam a warp like this in under an hour, easily. It depends a bit on the fiber too.is it 8 or 36 epi? Attached is a photo from my most recent project, baby blankets at 45" wide, 8 epi, and you can see I have 6 bottles (x 2 pounds each) over the width of the 9 yard warp. Typically I hang them in no more that 2" bouts. Submitted by RuthHenriquez on Thu, - 19:48 But it might get you by for finishing a shorter project, so you could re-beam if necessary? I don't know if this would help long-term on 3 yards. I'll throw one more thing out there.I am not familiar with a Beka in particular, but in the past, I have clamped a piece of wood on top of my table loom's back beam, just under the warp, to raise the warp up as it feeds into the heddles to improve the shed. (The down side, you probably get less exercise walking from the back to front of your loom with the bottles. ![]() Also, depending on the height of the floor loom, or where you clamp your table loom to beam, you can probably beam a lot more warp before having to adjust the water bottles, vs the crank and yank. That way I am assured I have perfectly equal weight/tension on each bout of warp as it beams. I use to use the C & Y, until I came up with a modified method based on Kati Meek's system, using water weights (2 pounds plastic bottles) hung off the warp as I beam. Because I warp solo, I needed to come up with a consistent process I can do by myself. I DID want to address your comment about the crank and yank method on your floor loom. I have noticed the tendency you mentioned, for one level to go slack on an open RH shed. I hope someone can chime in and help you with your particular loom. Although I have one and pull it out for demos from time to time. I think they are great for gentle handing of knitting yarns, but not so good when you do need something woven with tension.
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