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WARPING THE LOOM
1.
Tie the warp yarn onto a tooth on
the bottom beam. (
Figure 2
) Tie onto
the edge of where your weaving will
begin. We prefer to center our weav-
ings on the loom.
2.
Bring the yarn to the top beam,
place it around the tooth directly
above the one you started from.
Now take the yarn back to the bot-
tom beam, go around the next tooth
and back up to the top. Repeat until
you have warped the width of your
planned weaving.
3.
After you have finished winding
all of the warp ends on your loom,
temporarily secure the working end
of your warp yarn around a beam
tooth.
4.
Tighten the warp threads so that
they are taut. To do this start at the
first measured warp and pull up on it
to tighten the tension. Continue tak-
ing up slack from one warp thread
to the next all of the way across the
warp. Take out the extra length and
then again tie off the end temporarily.
If the warp needs further tensioning,
repeat as before until all of the warps
feel evenly taut. End by tying the
warp string onto the beam.
FIGURE 2: WARPING THE LOOM
FIGURE 2A: WARPING DETAILS
