Re: Warp spreaders

[Josephine R L Earl]

I use my wide-toothed comb for 10 cards too - just insert the comb at 
an angle to the warp yarns, but still perpendicular to the warp.  In 
other words, if the warp is horizontal and flat, say running 
North-South, the plane of the comb is vertical, but the plane of the 
comb runs NE-SW instead of E-W.

At 09:11 AM 11/19/2008 -0600, Wilson, David said:

            I just finished a workshop last week introducing tablet 
weaving using an inexpensive loom and found to my surprise that 
although a wide-toothed comb works very well to spread the warp 
when you are using 36+ cards, it doesn't work very well with 10 
cards.  I seem to remember that someone was using a couple of 
dowels to spread the warp (Ellen Shipley?) but I can't find the 
details on this.

            Could someone point me in the right direction for this, 
or perhaps there might be other inexpensive ways to do this using 
found objects.

Josephine Earl
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Spartanburg, SC