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>> Plate 26 in TTW shows how Moroccan weavers did it recently. Simply
>> wrapping warp around a stick which is lodged between two uprights, after
>> a hitch has been made to prevent further unwinding.
>> My Fig 14 a) and b) show other ways I tried.
>> I think all of then would involve some combing out of newly released
>> warp to even out tension.
>>
>> Peter Collingwood
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><< I think all of then would involve some combing out of newly released
> warp to even out tension. >>
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>Absolutely. I consider a wide-toothed comb an essential tool for tablet
>weaving.
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>Nancy
Umm, I think that depends on what kind of loom set-up you use for your
tablet-weaving...
Stretching the warp between two pegs, as in Peter's TTW figures, or
the set-up Nancy taught me on at JCC (esp. with the very fine warp
you use!), or the classic medieval-style "two-post" looms, I can
easily believe that combing out the warp is always necessary.
But on an inkle loom, or a two-beam loom (e.g. a rigid heddle loom
with the heddle removed), I generally don't need to comb out my warp
at all. At least, after I took a couple classes on how to really warp
a two-beam loom well... I had *lots* worse problems than combing,
on the one I did before that :-)
Lynn
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