{"id":3984,"date":"2012-08-06T21:19:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T02:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2012-10-02T20:27:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:27:01","slug":"weaving-on-the-varpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2012\/08\/weaving-on-the-varpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving on the Varpa"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know me too well. You knew that I’d find a reason for continuing to work on the Varpa, didn’t you?<\/p>\n

Well, my heddles aren’t here yet, scheduled to arrive tomorrow, but I thought about it, and decided it made most sense to try a 4 harness pattern that I’ve woven before — on my counterbalance loom — on the Varpa. There are several differences in the tie up on a countermarch loom (the Varpa) from either a counterbalance or a jack loom (the Macomber). I figured I shouldn’t make it more complex than it needed to be for my first attempt – go with a 4 harness pattern. <\/p>\n

So with some false starts and a few missteps, I started by doing the tie up. It made sense to me, and when I tested it out, the correct harnessses lifted and lowered. GREAT!<\/p>\n

On to beaming the warp and threading the heddles.
\n\"Varpa's<\/a><\/p>\n

All went well. In fact, I found the threading easy; with the knee beam, breast beam, and beater out of the way, I could get very close to the harnesses. I tied on to the front beam, and was off weaving!<\/p>\n

\"Varpa's<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a Swedish lace, which I think makes perfect sense for the maiden voyage of this Swedish-style loom. Ok, Varpapuus were actually made in Finland, but it’s close enough for me. (How American-centric is that?!<\/em>)<\/p>\n

I’ve got half of the first scarf in this warp of four woven already. Not as quick as on my beloved counterbalance yet, but I’ve only been working on it for a short time. I’m confident my speed will improve with practice on this loom. (The color is very off in this photo.)
\n\"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

Because I’m so short – specifically, because my arms are so short – I’ve already made a modification to the loom. It’s just temporary at this point, until I figure out the right combination, but it’s already made the loom fit me better. I’ve clamped and\/or tied blocks of wood onto the castle so the beater doesn’t go as far back as it did. It makes it much easier for me to reach it. <\/p>\n

\"big<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t ask me why I’m comfortable making modifications to this loom but not to my Mac or even the counterbalance. The counterbalance is pretty perfect just the way it is; the Mac never felt like home. I hope, and at this point believe, that the Varpa has found its home, after having only short stays with its last two weavers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know me too well. You knew that I’d find a reason for continuing to work on the Varpa, didn’t you?<\/p>\n

Well, my heddles aren’t here yet, scheduled to arrive tomorrow, but I thought about it, and decided it made most sense to try a 4 harness pattern that I’ve woven before — on my […]<\/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":[32,561,232,227,559],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-counterbalance-loom","tag-countermarch-loom","tag-handwoven-lace","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-varpapuu","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","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=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}