Dear Lyn My "demo" piece is a tablecloth in Russian tape, 18/3 linen, so I continually need to replenish bobbins. I've found that in this very thick thread, the bump from exchanging a passive and worker is annoyingly visible. Usually it's a worker that needs changing, so I just knot on a fully-wound bobbin to the end, and the use another fully wound bobbin, thread secured on a pin, with it, just before the knot, for one row only; that line of weaving has three wefts instead of two, and it really does not show. Continue with the second bobbin, throw out the first, to be used to replace the next worker that runs out. Provided I don't cut the ends until I'm well past the change, it is very secure. The passives are obviously done the same - run an extra new thread by the old one for a few rows, fewer than you think provided you don't cut or pull too soon. On tape, I try to do this on a sharp curve, when very little is needed to secure it and it does not show; not so easy in torchon, which is more even-weave, but there I should do what I do in Bucks sometimes, keep the extra passive in for the whole of a small motif, and it would take the maker's eye to see it! If you are working a very large piece, the sooner the need to fill bobbins and get rid of knots is accepted, the easier it becomes; after a bit, it relieves the boredom, and then it becomes almost automatic - like planning the end of a line of typing on a manual machine when the bell rang! [email protected]
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