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.
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?
How much more length do you need to add to a warp to weave eight towels instead of four?
