Warping the backstrap loom is in a stall. It has to do with a) this being the first time I have actually warped it to be used as a backstrap. I have used the heddle on a warp between ends on the day bed with ties as the weft: worked just fine. b) putting the full quota of warp threads on - 917, I think - well, okay somewhere around 80. c) wondering, as I was trying to get all those threads of an equal tautness, if there was an easier way, and then, what would Google suggest. d) coming up with a young man sitting in a park and warping a backstrap loom with pre-measured threads and putting them through the heddle before they were attached at either end and smiling the whole time. e) after several attempts, not smiling, to redeem my warped-but-not-really-warped backstrap loom decided to likely cut all those threads off and start again .... but first ..... got out one of the peg looms recently acquired at a garage sale.
Warped it with 16 warp threads in about 8 minutes, using Irish flax trolling line (flea market find). The sturdy warp called for a sturdy weft.
A stretchy fabric from a church sale (purchased with the intent of turning it into scrunched material for an energy garment) from which I had already chopped off a piece but not yet scrunched, was cut into strips. I am very fond of electric scissors; I am rapturous over cordless electric scissors.
The first few inches. Satisfactory. The material packs nicely with pleasing texture. The dried daffs are introduced.
Yes. The bodkins for the shuttle and heddle to give a shed when introducing the daffs work well.
Holding the peg loom like this and 'strumming' the warp strings in sequence for the shuttle, made me think of a harp.
The process invited stopping and gazing and admiring. I obliged.
That's all for now.
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