Unexpected computer issues (as compared to the expected kind? 🤨) delayed finalizing my cartoon (yes, unexpectedly) for a bit, but I think I may finally be ready to ink the finished tracing. I still need to check with a graph overlay at my epi to see what pixelation will do to my curves and angles, but finally I have a loom of the dressed variety, a drawing I think I can live with, and a tracing I hope I can weave with.
I’m planning on weaving this as a multiselvedge piece so that my final postcard sized weaving will be ready to mount once it’s off the loom. The green section is waste yarn to make weaving the white warp easier; the cartoon to be woven sideways on the white section.
When I was dressing the loom a bit of a lightbulb moment went off. I’m pretty new to this particular way of dressing a four-selvedge piece, following instructions to be found on Susan Martin Maffei’s website. If I’m right, tell me if I’m right?, the wrapping to secure the lower loop of the actual warp just happens to also set the spacing for the actual warp and thus, using the same size securing yarn as will be the size of my weft bundle should yield two half-bundles between each (doubled but still thinner) warp. Since technically I want the space between warp threads to be a wee bit over the space the warp bundle will need (helped along by the finer grist of the warp I’m using and the expectation of an unavoidable bit of space between the “two half-bundles”), using the warp bundle to secure the warp should, I hope, end me up with exactly the number of ends per inch I need… Yes? No? Clear as mud? Magic?
The proof is in the pudding, as they say, or in this case, proof in the ice cream, rather. More to follow…
