Dressing the loom with the indigo warp

Weaver's log, Earthdate 02032020
Spring break week and am in school to get ahead of my work. Today I and my mom put what I needed to warp on the big kind of bobbins I used back on my tent, and mom made small yarn balls of the worst hanks of blue yarn for inlay. Mom got a bit hart broken then I said I was to unwind all of the yarn on the large bobbins tomorrow after spooling it up during a day. She has for a long time now wanted to get into weaving, so now she will see and not just hear what I do all day.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 03032020
One of the last things my teacher told me was that I should warp with four threads to get the uneven colour evenly spaced over the warp and make the weave flow real nice.

The warping went a lot faster then I expected, both of the tails were done to lunch. So I got the pre slaying done today as well as fitting it the loom and prep to put it in tomorrow morning.

I also made a big bunch of bobbin papers as we are running low and I want to have a lot at a time then I weave things this long, the warp is 9,85 meters.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 04032020
So I quickly realised that I would not be able to hold the two tails by my self so I drafted a friend for the other one and my mom were to do the sticks and turning the back beam. I was an interesting experience teaching two people that have almost no ide what whey did and should over a warp that is this long, but in the end, we got it all in. All in all, I think it took only a bit over 2 hours so not to bad.

I like to tie my warp threads in groups that are the same number as the repetition in the heddle order before I start to heddle. In this case, it was 12 and as I warped with 4 treads this would be super easy to group up. But I was to have two floating selvedge threads on each side so I hade to split some of the natural gropes and this made it take a bit longer.

But I got to the point that I could put back the shafts and add a lot of heddles. But then I hade to put on everything and tied the look strings I notice I hade to put on both the old fashioned style and the once with ladders and open hols,

at this point, I just felt screw it and I went home to start heddeling tomorrow.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 05032020
As I sat in the loom heddeling along drifting into thought. I sighed over that I will have to do the extremely tedious tredel pattern of broken diamond twill for over 8 meters. Then I looked down and thought hey I got a lot of treadles in this loom, counted them and the number of treadles in each repetition on the draft, and by chance or fate both equalled to 10. So super excited as I where I jumped out of the loom and altered my old draft to 10 treadles in weave point. It wasn't as easy as I thought so I

hade to fix some stuff but weave point does help with some stuff luckily.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 06032020
Today I didn't have to be alone in the weaving classroom as my friend that some time is here came by today, she was going to pre slay a weave, but for some time now we have only hade one hook to do it with, she thought I should have it as I was heddeling and she was pre slaying in a 30/3 reed or so so didn't need something that thin. But I kinda felt bad for holding on to it so I made her on using a paper clip and some tap to make it comfier.

The red string is to mark the middle so I can position the strings that go from the shafts to the lamms in the middle of the weave.