Disaster

Weaver's log, Earthdate 06022019
Got an email from the fabric company today that they can't deliver my order on two rolls of fabric and have to choose how I want to get the blue. Also, the olive will be on two rolls, but wors is that they miss 6 meters of it. Have to do some thinking on how to solve this.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 07022019
The colours I had to choose from was yellow, red and the greenish cyan.

My first thought was to have the centre of the short side that will serve as the door a different colour. But after a misunderstanding from my mom that I meant the middle of the long side I did some thinking and digging of those calculations I wrote about a few posts above that's what I will do in the red. So I wrote them of my decision and got a reply a few hours later that they will ship it tomorrow. So in a week or two, I will have my fabric and I can saw the testing tent before I start on my woven cloth.

Working on the paper pattern

Weaver's log, Earthdate 26042018
I have been asked in a wadmal felting group on Facebook to show some before and after shots of my fabrics, and as I don't have too many of them on here I thought I make a new post about it.
This two I weaved then I did the main textile cores on Bäckedal. Thes were made for an early medieval costume but the black shrunk with little over a meter lengthwise so I don't have enough for my initial idea so in my frustration I just put the cloths aside. The inlay in both is spun on a spindle from combed yarn, except half the white one as I ran out of time. The white is from a sheep I shared with hand sheers so its a bit extra special for me as I got to know the sheep. The final picture is of the warp-weighted as I don't put up a decent after shot after it dried. (I will try to remember to take this picturs)

Weaver's log, Earthdate 22062018
The floor is mostly cleared and I can start working on the pattern. I Start to straighten and draw in all lines so they are more visible. Thankfully my dad had this big angle iron I could use for this. I then drew the withs for both the floor loom and warp weighted fabrics, starting from the long middle of the short side. Wher the angels cut the straight line I draw a horizontal line over the corresponding with and measured where that point was from the bottom of the pattern. Lastly I drow all of the measurements on paper. The prosses will be more clear after studying the scans of those down below. I did this over a couple of days but it's a simple enough proses so I summit up on one entry. The worst part about this step is that I can't stand on my knees or they will poop, so I have to be careful and moving was tricky as I couldn't slide on the paper or it would rip as I found out the hard way. After this was done I did some math over how much I will need in the end.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 16012019
Ordered the fabric today from the store I got the samples from two years ago, really excited to get it here and start sawing. I also ordered some of the blue fabric for a geteld, it will be nice to have if I don't feel like needing much space other then to sleep in and it takes a lot less space to pack.

Raising the tent and making a pattern

Weaver's log, Earthdate 27092017
The days leading up to today I have now drilled all the holes and sawn all four heads, and today I and my dad put up the frame. First I recommend to actually make the peg holes and pegs before raising it, in the end, we used nails. But after some tries here it is.

The reason I wanted to raise it was so I could make a paper template of the short sides of the tent. I used a floor covering paper the kind you can get from hardware stores to cover your floor then you renovating, it's great for all sorts of pattern making, and this is how that lookt, I used a staple gun to nail it to the frame directly and then drew where to cut later. It's definitely the biggest pattern I have ever made.

The conclusions from today are that as I mentioned Pegg hols is a great thing that needs to be done before I raise it the next time, I also have to carve some more on the horse heads as now they are in its raw jigsaw state. On the tent cloth front, I need to clean out some more so I have a clear floor that I can work with the pattern on and later cut my canvas on then I have ordered it.

Decoration and mortise cutting

Weaver's log, Earthdate 24092017
I am now to walk you through the proses of putting on the horse heads, which was what I did today. First I taped the paper to a sheet of carbon paper that was then taped to the wood where I wanted it.

After tracing, I marked the area that I was to remove. 

I then started sawing with a jigsaw. I like to saw in sections for maximal control. Starting at some parts was a bit tricky so I trick I utilised was something I learned working in silver, if you first do a little notch the saw will then start cutting without slipping then you want to cut a line at an angel.

 I was scared of the back blowing out as it often does with jigsaws and drills so I taped the back with masking tape, I later discovered that the bords were so thick that at least the jigsaw didn't need it.

 The opposite side of the horse heads I rounded using a bucket I felt lookt right.

 For the hols that will serve as mortis, I started with a drill the same size as on the hole saw have in the middle then with the hole saw, through this project I have used three different sets of hole saws and the one I like the most is the one that's most expensive so if you're getting a hole saw its worth not to get a cheap one. The most expensive one I bought was not 10€ so it's still not really expensive. The hole saw couldn't go the whole way through so I had to drill from both sides. I did not hit exakt centre but I can fix it with a knife later

Cutting the tenants

Weaver's log, Earthdate 12092017
I Got a brilliant idea of how to speed the measuring proses of the short ends using a hole saw and hammered it into the wood with the drill at the centre of the beam. This idea also spurred the idea that I could use the hole saw to see to that the tenants were as round as possible as they were going to go thro drilled holes later.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 13092017
Here is how I get the straight edges at the finish. First I use one of these saws that I don't know what they are called in English as its teeth are smaller and make nicer cuts, you saw it so that you don't accidentally brake of more wood then you want with the chisel. Then you chisel don't go for the entire piece at once cut down in portions this way you have more control

Weaver's log, Earthdate 15092017
I have sone done all of the tenants, so I made a test piece from some scrap with the same dimensions as the mortises are going in too and it seems to be ok so far. I also drew ahead piece as this is a Viking tent, I went for a Rohan inspired horse head from the Lord of the Rings mythos.

frame work continues

Weaver's log, Earthdate 04092017
Today I sawed all the timber for the short sides. Here I have laid them out how they later will stand in the frame.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 06092017
all beams are now rounded and its time to take down the tenants that are going in the timbers you saw me saw above. I measured around and subtracted the difference. I also measured the total length of the tenant.

The real frame work begins

Weaver's log, Earthdate 28082017
I bought my timber today and started rounding the timbers going along the long edges, here is a drawing of the pieces that make up the frame. I started with an electric planer and then went in with a coopers planer, this is one of my absolute favourite tools for woodworking. I drew a circle on the ends of the 4'' by 4'' and then drew guidelines from one side to the other. The final the shot is a before-after shoot, I could round it more but it's good enough.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 29082017
I can round one beam on an afternoon before the sun goes down. On today's pictures,

you can see how it looks after the electric planer and the hand planer.

Work of the frame begins

Weaver's log, Earthdate 25082017

This summer I have decided to continue the work on the tent. The way I'm going to do this is by first sawing one tent out of cotton canvas with a pine frame. I will do this for two main reasons one: its a lot cheaper to mess up with and see what bits will be a problem and get a pattern for my wool, the second reason is that I want one in canvas too as I don't want to use the wool one too much as of its value and weight. The first thing I did was nail some scrap wood together to get a 3D perspective of inner size and I might expand it to as I got more fabric now then my floor loom fabric isn't getting felted down to 65cm width from its 82cm. I also tested different roof pole hights. As am Not in school any more work will be more on a sporadic basis then a nine to five thing.