The Great Weaving Debate
In episode 30 of A Handwoven Experience, I’m talking all about the great debate! See, in the weaving world, you have basically 2 options for how to set up your loom. And people feel VERY strongly about which way is best! Check it out!
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Ha! I figured that’s what this segment would cover. Yep, I’m a back-to-front person, largely because I am completely book-taught. When I bought my first loom…lemme see, that would be about fifty years ago…I also bought Mary Black’s "Key to Weaving." I could NOT make sense out of her front-to-back instructions no matter how many times I read them, but back-to-front was clear as a bell. Now that I’ve seen you go through the whole front-to-back process, I am tempted to try it because I think it might be easier to keep the threads in order as they come off the leash sticks and go through the reed, and of course having them already threaded through the reed would be a tremendous boon once it came to threading them through the heddles. Kinda makes me wish I’d learned front-to-back before I had fifty years of habit-training.
It’s no competition. Skippy wins all day long.
I am completely self taught and remember everything I read was about back to front, which I took to be gospel and learnt it that way. However, I don’t like warping that way and have always wanted to learn the front to back method (when I found out that such a thing existed), which to my brain makes much more sense. I just haven’t done this as yet. My loom is not designed for front to back so have to figure out a way to make this work, however, it does fold at the back.
I go back to front because of my dog and cat. Then I got a sectional attachment plus and minuses on that one.
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