How To Warp A Floor Loom Back To Front

Make a guide string by cutting a piece of yarn 12 inches longer than the length of a warp end.

How to warp a floor loom back to front.

Romanian traditional weaver aurelia cârdei demonstrates warping a wooden floor loom from back to front. Then you thread the heddles and sley the reed sitting at the front of your loom. This is a video for beginning weavers. Warping a loom back to front can be a good choice if you re sleying multiple ends per dent.

Instructions for warping a loom back to front method louise french step i measure the warp 1. The warp passes through a cross held in place by lease sticks that keep the order of the individual threads and through a raddle that maintains warp width. Here is how i warp an ashford table loom. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube.

Front to back warping 1. Although it is done on a table loom the. Front to back warping 2. Admittedly warping the rigid heddle loom takes a few more steps and time than a frame loom.

However now that you have set up the loom you will be able to weave much faster than you would be able to with a lap loom. You can use the front to back warping method on any size of loom a rigid heddle or a large floor loom. And moving the warp thread through the reed can be a real bummer. Tie a loop in one end and slip the loop on peg 1.

Create a path similar to the one shown in figure 1. Tie off on the last peg in this example peg 6.