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Leveling the shafts
After the shafts are hung, you can fine tune the leveling. Tie a strong thread to the back beam and run it
through the eye of a heddle on a single shaft and then tie it to the front beam. Look at the path of the thread
from back to front. The thread should sit at the bottom of the heddle eye.
Adjust the texsolv cord on the shaft so that the thread sits at the bottom of the heddle eye. Once the first
shaft has been adjusted to the correct height, adjust the remaining shafts to the same height. You do not
need to recheck each shaft with the thread, just adjust each shaft to match the neighboring shaft. Remove
the guide thread when you are done.
Leveling the first warp
The second step in leveling is to make sure that the threads come through the reed at the correct point. You
will do this step once you have your first warp on the loom. Once the loom is threaded and the reed is
sleyed, look at where the warp threads come through the reed. They should be positioned so that the
threads are in the bottom 1/3 of the reed.
Because this is a countermarch loom, some warps threads rise and some sink. The warp has to be 1/3 of the
way up the reed so there
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s room for the sinking threads to move down. If the position in the reed is wrong,
you need to adjust the beater up or down. The beater is adjusted at the top connecting piece using the holes
in the side pieces. Choose the hole that will hold the reed in the proper place for the warp and fasten with
screw and wingnut. Once this is set you will not need to change this setting.
Adjust beater at top connecting piece
Warp should be 1/3 distance from
bottom to top
