In the last post I shared my (Sort of) Sectional warping. While my dog was checking out the new beam support on the Delta, I carried the beam back to the TC2 and, with my husband’s help, attached it. Two sets of lease sticks later, I was off making good on my weaver’s knot practice.
I had tried my Mesdan Knotter but the difference in grist of the 2 yarns made it fairly unreliable so I fell back on my fingers. That grist difference made the weavers knot a little fiddly but not unmanageable.
I tied a black and white warp onto a black warp so I had to be extra careful that my thread order was right and that all of the white threads lift together and all of the black threads lift together. For the most part, the thread by thread cross I made in the black warp in preparation to tie on did the trick although I did check it every so often to make sure.
I am not very fast and there are a lot of knots! Not really sure that re-threading would take longer than tying on at this point – but of course that depends on how many mistakes need fixing, etc.
Here’s a video once all knots were tied. The camera is looking from the warp beam towards the heddles and the reed beyond. The sound you hear is the TC2 advancing the warp. I had shifted my warp part way through tying on so my tension was different pre and post shift. Otherwise I think I could have just woven out the remaining black thread – the weavers knot makes it pretty easy to keep things consistent. As it was, I cut off the first warp and tied the new one to the cloth beam.
I have to say I was really crazy paranoid about the knots coming undone or getting jammed up in the heddles – turns out everything worked well, no knots were lost and (spoiler alert) I am now weaving on my new (Sort of) Sectional Warp. Whew.
I will continue to work on ways to comfortably get a longer warp so there are fewer knots in my future.