Front to Back Warping

Warping front to back means you start on the weaving side of your loom, sleying the reed and threading the heddles before winding the warp onto the back-beam. You might prefer this style of warping if your loom has a removable back beam that allows you to get in close to the heddles from the back while you're threading. As far as equipment goes, you won't need to own a raddle, or worry about placing lease sticks.

Front-to-back warping also allows you to wind different parts of the warp separately (such as all of one color or weight of yarn at a time) in their own chains. This is because you can sley each chain separately it its respective dents across the reed. With back-to-front warping, you have to wind the warp threads in the exact order they will go on the back beam.

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