Dressing the loom for broken Diamond twill test weave

Weaver's log, Earthdate 11112019
My teacher wants me to do a test we've for the Viking fabric before I do the real one. So I have written a draft made a ball of yarn and warped it.

 Weaver's log, Earthdate 12112019
Did the pre-sleying today and again I hade twisted some threads out of order in the warping, think I have to practise more on warping or rather take it slower so I don't do mistakes.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 13112019

Did a lot of reading in a book from Ulla Cyrus today and at the end of the day my teacher helpt me put the warp in the loom and got the heedeling done, A trick I did with the heedeling and will do with the sleying is to keep the thread bundles at a number that correlate with the thing you weave. So, In this case, one repetition is 16 with two different patterns in it, so I tide the bundles of 8 threads each.

Then I was walking home and turned off the lights I saw the loom light was still on, and I felt it was something with what I saw so I hade to take a picture or two.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 14112019
Got the sleying and front tieing done today.

Me and my classmate that weave at school hade a class there we started to design a band to make lops for our towels. We did this with the same card method I have done before. I also made a quick week planing for weeks to come to see if I can get everything done before the next big class meeting.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 15112019
On the agenda today was tieing the treadles, and as this is on a contramarch it's a bit more fiddly and on top of that its the first time I do it. If you don't know what a contramarch is, it's a thing that does so then you push a tredel down the heedels that are tide to it not only go down but all the others rise as well giving you a good shed. All the looms here got these things that catch the sticks you put on the back beam then you put the warp in the loom. The bad thing is that they stab you in the back, so I got to get creative this time as it takes some time to thread it all.

You connect the once you want to go down on the top row and the rest on the bottom one.

My teacher told me that on the 16 shaft weave it is 300 plus strings. Then I was done and sat down to test it out I noticed that I hade connected them crocked so I hade to crawl down again and move them all to the left one step.