Posted by Peg in South Carolina
The next step is to set the loom up for sleying the reed.
I have put back the top of the beater and put in a 12 dent reed. I will put 2 ends in a dent for 24 epi. I have pulled the bench back outside of the loom and have replaced the front top bar. I have removed the books from under the shafts so that the shafts have dropped back in place. And I have used cord to set the beater so that it is almost perpendicular to the floor. I like it leaning back a little because that makes it easier to do the actual sleying.
I have not yet put on the front fabric beam. That would get in the way of my legs a bit as I am still sitting quite close to the loom, even though I have moved the bench outside.
I will begin sleying in the middle. First I sley from the middle to the right; then from the middle to the left. I have marked the center point on my beater, so it is easy to see where to start the sleying.
Photography Note: The small size of the images in my blog posts has been driving me nutty. I use Windows Live Writer to write my posts and publish from it. I have finally discovered that images are automatically being resized to small and that I have other choices: medium, large, full picture, or my own figures that I put in. And I can also resize them manually—why on earth did I not recognize that last?!
Sometimes small is fine, but not always. Perhaps my eyes are just getting old!
2 comments:
This is fascinating - is there a reason you sley from the centre, but thread from one side?
Geodyne, if I sley from the center I don't have to 1) figure out how many dents I need on each side; and 2) count the number of dents; and 3) not make a mistake in counting so that I don't end up with the center at the center.
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