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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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