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Double Weave width in loom
My project is to make a curtain for a doorway to keep the warm air downstairs.I have a 4 shaft floor loom; I have a 40″ reed; I thought I needed 452 ends for the warp of Highland wool to make a 53″ width. Maybe that’s already wrong?
Anyway, I’m using a reed 8. I started to sley the first 20 ends, and now figure out that this will use more than 40″. What should I do?
Should I double the ends in the reed? But is it possible to have the heavy yarn slip by each other inside a “small” reed? And then it is probably also too tight?
I think I understand to double the wool for the weft.
So should I use a reed 6?
Or should I go for the reed 10? And just double a few?
And since I have your attention: I want to put color stripes into this natural white curtain. I planned to have 20 white, 1 mustard, 20 white, 1 mustard, 20 white, 1 mustard,1 white,1 rust this is my pattern. For warping I doubled the pattern: 40,2,40,2,40,2,2,2. Is that correct?
And then I ended this 3x repeated pattern with a 40,2,20, to have it at the fold reverse. Is my thinking correct?
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I don’t know the answer to everything you asked BUT I do know you want to double your desired blanket epi in the reed- so if your blanket is 8 epi, you thread it at 16 – picture weaving two 8 epi cloths on top of each other- you need 16 epi to make that work! I can’t speak for reed and a floor loom set up, but 2 worsted weight knitting yarns slide past each other in an 8 epi heddle for double weave, and rigid heddles have tiny sheds, so unless your yarn is very bulky or sticky, I assume they will be okay as long as they seem to slide past each other fairly easily. If you have a very chunky yarn you might need to weave it at 5 epi and that might need another reed. That’s all I got there :)
Do you have more info on your yarn handy? I am sure someone here has woven a double weave blanket hopefully they will be able to help! Your numbers make sense to me, but I didn’t really map them out in detail in my head.
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So my yarn is a highland wool, 8/2 and has 900 ypp.
I now warped my loom with a reed 6, doubled. That kinda just fit within the width of my loom, like about 37.5″ . Does that mean when I take the fabric off the loom it’ll be 76″ wide?
I chose the reed 6 because of the 8/2 wool; it seemed to not slide through the 8 easily when doubled in a slot. And also, I thought for a double weave I should double the weft. So, if I understand the Aschenberg right, my maximum set would have been 13.5. Now I have a 12, with the weft being heavier than the warp.
Or would this count as a set 6? because of the double weave?
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