If you want to know a culture, look at its cloth. The materials and tools speak to us of place, and the designs handed down the generations tell us the stories of a people.
What is the best size loom to buy? And how many shafts do you need?
I hemstitched my project, but I am not sure if this is stable enough unless I allow for fringing. I do not really want fringe so would it be better for me to fold in the ends and machine stitch them?
If two placemats are woven to the same length why is one shorter than the other? Madelyn makes an educated guess.
My sett is 48 epi (4/dent in a 12-dent reed). I’m worried that if I just tie one thread to each one of the four threads hanging from each dent without taking them in their exact order, they will be twisted when I start trying to wind the warp.
Raising four shafts with every treadle makes the treadling very heavy. Is there anything that you can think of that would make it easier to treadle?
