More Weaving
I decided to weave some grey wool. It was stuff we had stored in a box in the cupboard for years. I believe its 3 strand/size 4 thread (could be wrong though).
The width of the warp is around 11″’s I think my reed is a little to tight for this thickness of wool
Waiting to be wound onto the back roller.
Using only two shafts on this one. Just need some wool cloth to play with fulling/felting.
The thread is wanting to felt behind the reed. It requires me to put my hand between the threads to break the fibers from knotting together.
Many more feet to go!
Its not necessary to put a thread through every reed. You can alternate open ones, or if that is too widely spaced thread 110110…etc. It will most likely look uneven till its washed, but wool will move in wet finishing. To help with the wool grabbing behind the reed. Hairspray or some other method of warp dressing. Older methods are flax seed dressing, gelatin and others. HTH.
I thought about spacing between threads, but by that time I had already threaded 40 ends. Decided to keep going.
Hairspray… Really, wow thats counter intuitive.
If you want to try the hairspray, lift 1 shaft to get some spacing, then spray. Once that layer is dry, lift the other shaft.