Weaving without Boundaries - Weaving with linen on the rigid heddle and why it's really not that bad 

🍸🍸 Cheers and thanks!

Agreed! Thank goodness for s hooks! Tension on the down shed is such a "warpsaver" for those unforgiving yarns. I also add a pick up stick in the down shed behind the heddle and it also helps keep things balanced.

Thank you!! 😁

Same! hahaha! Kids go back to school in a week so I can start to record again.

YAY!!

I get the why; it's a technological marvel. Without linen, we could not have had ships and travel. But the HOW is fascinating. Spinning hair from animals or grasses is an easy jump, but the processing of linen (and indigo for that matter) takes many steps, yet still may have predated shepherding sheep for wool. I've read that linen could have been the first agricultural crop: so it must have been very powerful. Also fascinating is that the process to make linen was used on other plants around the world: ramie is processed in a similar way and grasses and flowers like milkweed were spun in pre-colonial America. My best guess is that early spinners saw the quality of bast fibers after molding all winter in damp rain, maybe looking for flexible reeds to make baskets and one thing lead to another. Either way it's incredible!

Gin! Always!

Always. We go through SO many olives in our house.

Hello! Sorry for my delay. The first time I beam the front beam, I do it with paper and yank and crank. The goal is to get it as perfect as possible the first roll on, then when you roll back you have the opportunity to fine tune any inconsistencies for a more perfect warp. When I tried to roll on sloppy first then roll back I found I had more issues.

How long my warp is with indirect warping without finding my lost measuring tape :)

I just realized I totally misread your question! Iphones come with an app that measures and also acts as a spirit level. It's so handy for weaving and for photography,

Wow… I’m a total newbie to weaving (but not other fiber arts) and this was super helpful! Thank you!

Sorry to disappoint, I am a gin kind of gal!