Then there is the opposite problem, your tension is too tight.Īn easy way to know if this is your problem is that you have to wrestle with the heddle to get it into the up position. So, if your edges seem too loose, try advancing your warp a little. In the up position, it may fall, in the down position it may just hang there. One way to know if your warp is way too loose, is your heddle won’t like to stay in position when you place it there. I’m going to talk about consistency more in a moment. But, it should not be an excessive amount and it should be consistent. That is normal and natural as the weft takes it’s path back and forth across the warp. When your weft travels around the edge warp threads, it naturally wants to draw in that warp thread a little as it travels to the other side. A too loose tension will result in too loose edges, and even if you employ the techniques I discuss in the video, it’s only going to help a certain amount. If you push up underneath the warp or push down on top and it’s like your hands are on a trampoline that has lost it’s zing, you’re too loose. I do go on about this a bit, but that is only because it is SO CRUCIAL!! If your warp is either too loose or too tight, you are going to meet with trouble when you start weaving. I never did write a blog post to compliment that video, and there are tips and tricks that I want to point out as important, especially for beginner weavers. Because, regardless of my fears and zero expectations, people actually watched the video. And to be really dramatic, I could say that there would be no Online Weaving School without this first video. You could say that this is the video that started it all for me. For more information, please see my disclosure policy.
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