Shared looms for this class will be housed in 1B25. You will have access to this room via your BuffOne card.

Loom Types #

8S-1: An 8-Shaft Table Top Shaft Loom 8S-2: An 8-Shaft Table Top Shaft Loom BabyWolf: An 8-Shaft Floor Loom

Student Limits #

The class looms are warped with enough yarn to support each student making 3.5 yards of cloth total. Technically, we warp assuming each student will weave 4 yards to account for waste when cutting. Please do not go over your 3.5 limit. With 22 students, 3.5 yards each comes to roughly 77 yards of cloth!

Warping Details (for Prof. Devendorf’s Records) #

Initially, each loom will be warped with 15 yards of warp. We will wind 3 extra beams at 15 yards to swap in and tie on when the warp gets low. This will also help us adjust if one loom is used more/less than another.

Yarns #

Each loom is warped with 8/4 cotton yarn. The warps alternate between colors black and flax. The weaving width will be 4". That means, each warp-set will require 720 yards (15 yards @ 12 epi * 4"). Because the colors will alternate 360 yards of each color are used per warp group.

I am going to be winding the warp using a paddle:

I have 9 cones of yarn: 4 in Flax 5 in Black

Each cone has ~840 yds. I’ll thread by paddle 12 warps wide. That means that each cone needs to supports 1 warp per inch, for 15 yds. There are going to be 4" width and 6 warp sets total, so we need 15yds * 4" * 6 warp-sets = 360yds on each cone. If I split 2 of the flax cones, and one of black cones I will have 6 black and 6 flax cones, each with enough to support 6 full warps (+ a bit left over).