{"id":2500,"date":"2011-02-20T14:16:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T19:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2011-02-20T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T22:56:51","slug":"semi-successful-supplementary-warp-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2011\/02\/semi-successful-supplementary-warp-beam\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-Successful Supplementary Warp Beam"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know why I always want to do something hard. Isn’t easy good enough? <\/p>\n

Apparently not.<\/p>\n

I had woven two of these beautiful hand painted rayon chenille scarves (top and right). They’re lovely, with the warp being a colorway Tammy<\/a> calls Visionary – a blend of purples and dark green. I used a solid purple for the weft.
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\nI wanted to weave the third one using a light green weft, thinking it’d be nice to have something a bit different. <\/p>\n

That would have been really easy, if I hadn’t also wanted to add a thin strip of that light green along each edge of the scarf.<\/p>\n

I’ve tried adding such strips to an existing warp before. <\/p>\n

I’ve simply hung and weighted the added warp – pretty unsuccessful. Way too hard to get good, even tension on it. Ended up with wavy selvedges.<\/p>\n

I’ve tried cutting off the scarves that were finished, pulling the remaining warp forward through heddles & reed, tying the new ends on the back beam, and rewinding. Still not good for me…the thread that had been on there were already a bit stretched, so the new threads ended up at a different tension before many inches of weaving anyway.<\/p>\n

So I thought I’d try another strategy. <\/p>\n

Make pretend I had a second warp beam by using my rigid heddle loom. Here’s a shot from the top…
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\nAnd the side…
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With my rigid heddle loom on a TV tray, it was almost exactly the right height. And the RH loom would apply sufficient tension, plus it had its own brake, so I could adjust the green warp threads as we moved forward.<\/p>\n

I have to say that for me, it did work better than the other two methods. But it wasn’t ideal. When I needed to advance the yarn, it wasn’t necessarily easy to adjust the two brakes to provide the same tension. <\/p>\n

Far worse, every time I beat the weft in, the TV tray and RH loom banged on the back beam of my counterbalance loom. I tried removing the TV tray and hanging the RH loom over the back beam; that didn’t work — the balance was completely off. <\/p>\n

I tried tying the front beam of the RH to the back beam of the counterbalance. That was less successful – no way could I get it tied tightly enough. I thought about using clamps instead, but I don’t have the kind of clamps that could have done that. <\/p>\n

So I learned another strategy that wasn’t great. I still don’t have one that is. Maybe when my clever son moves back to the region next month I’ll have him look at it and see if he can fashion a sometimes-used supplementary warp beam for me that I will like. (I can imagine that I might hate what it would do to my beloved little loom.)<\/p>\n

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I don’t know why I always want to do something hard. Isn’t easy good enough? <\/p>\n

Apparently not.<\/p>\n

I had woven two of these beautiful hand painted rayon chenille scarves (top and right). They’re lovely, with the warp being a colorway Tammy calls Visionary – a blend of purples and dark green. I used a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[227,249,407],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-rayon-chenille","tag-rigid-heddle","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}