Preparing a Sectional Warp
In my last post, I set forth the math on how I plan a project.
I had three cones, two full and one small partial, of 11/2 cottolin at 4,620 yards per pound.
I had to make something of an educated guess as to how much the cones weighed to have an idea of how many yards I had because I wanted to use up as much of the thread as I could, without running out.
Based on a blog post from Jane Stafford, I selected from a photograph which size cone I thought I had. That cone weighed 1.5 oz.
The actual weight of the cone in my possession was 1.75 oz.
Out of the 20,212 yards I thought I had, I needed 19,915 yards, which would only give me 297 yards to spare.
The difference between three cones each weighing 1.5 oz and actually weighing 1.75 oz is .75 oz.
At 4,620 yards per pound (or 16 oz), .75 oz is 216.5625 yards.
Which means out of the 297 yards I had to spare, the erroneous weight difference ate up 216 yards of it!
That’s all of 81 yards!
This is what I had left after I loaded my 24 spools.
Just WOW!
Of course, that is plenty for broken warps, etc.
I had to add one knot because I emptied a cone on the last spool with less than 100 yards out of the 840 I needed to fill it.
I am elated and have literally been giggling at my great fortune.
As I was winding the last two spools, I was becoming more concerned by the minute I may run out. My plan, should that have happened, was to substitute 8/2 cotton in natural. While slightly thicker in diameter, I was going to use it as the floating selvedges.
However, I don’t have to!
Yay!
Here is a shot of two of the fat spools loaded with over 800 yards each. I now have 24 of them.
Once the spools were all loaded, I placed them on the spool rack and positioned it behind the loom. I attached the tension box above the warp beam and carefully threaded each of the twenty-four threads through the box.
I have a yardage meter on the tension box. For 35 yards of this 11/2, it took 47 turns of the beam.
Once the warp beam is fully loaded, I will carry the warp threads up the loom for threading the heddles. I addressed this with photos in an earlier post some time ago.
I ran out of steam this evening. I shall finish loading the beam and preparing the heddles for threading after work tomorrow.
I had three cones, two full and one small partial, of 11/2 cottolin at 4,620 yards per pound.
I had to make something of an educated guess as to how much the cones weighed to have an idea of how many yards I had because I wanted to use up as much of the thread as I could, without running out.
Based on a blog post from Jane Stafford, I selected from a photograph which size cone I thought I had. That cone weighed 1.5 oz.
The actual weight of the cone in my possession was 1.75 oz.
Out of the 20,212 yards I thought I had, I needed 19,915 yards, which would only give me 297 yards to spare.
The difference between three cones each weighing 1.5 oz and actually weighing 1.75 oz is .75 oz.
At 4,620 yards per pound (or 16 oz), .75 oz is 216.5625 yards.
Which means out of the 297 yards I had to spare, the erroneous weight difference ate up 216 yards of it!
That’s all of 81 yards!
This is what I had left after I loaded my 24 spools.
This is what they looked like before:
Of course, that is plenty for broken warps, etc.
I had to add one knot because I emptied a cone on the last spool with less than 100 yards out of the 840 I needed to fill it.
I am elated and have literally been giggling at my great fortune.
As I was winding the last two spools, I was becoming more concerned by the minute I may run out. My plan, should that have happened, was to substitute 8/2 cotton in natural. While slightly thicker in diameter, I was going to use it as the floating selvedges.
However, I don’t have to!
Yay!
Here is a shot of two of the fat spools loaded with over 800 yards each. I now have 24 of them.
I have a yardage meter on the tension box. For 35 yards of this 11/2, it took 47 turns of the beam.
Once the warp beam is fully loaded, I will carry the warp threads up the loom for threading the heddles. I addressed this with photos in an earlier post some time ago.
I ran out of steam this evening. I shall finish loading the beam and preparing the heddles for threading after work tomorrow.
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