Books for sale - duplicates of ones in my library. S+H included for US. International orders, S+H is extra. Collingwood, Peter Rug Weaving Techniques Excellent condition $125 This

In addition to the illustration mentioned earlier on page page 23 of Weaving and Cloth Design by Marianne Straub, you can see an illustration of a weighted box on page 105 in Ideas in Weaving by Anne

Hans, thanks for the explanation of the physics. That makes sense. Syne, can you elaborate on your choice of ropes? What has worked the best for you? What has not worked? Kati's book calls for

I found that changing the rope I was using to one with more "tooth" made the difference in my live tension system. Along with the other methods of increasing friction Hans mentioned above. I'm playing

Hi Everyone If you are looking for pictures of wood weight box and diagram. Hand Weaving and Cloth Design by Marianne Straub page 23. The set up is not shown on barn loom. Shown on George Wood Loom.

Ms. Lacroix, Live tension is just a practical application of Euler’s capstan formula F1 = F2 x e to the power of (my x alpha) where F1 is your warp force; F2 is the live tension weight; e is the

It’s not about the amount of weight per se, it’s about the amount of friction between the rope wraps and the beam. A “hard” rope will not have as much contact with the beam as a soft one,

I can’t find one now but I sure I have seen woodcuts of barn looms with the warp beam weighted with a trough filled with rocks. I would just try adding more weight - it’s not like you are going to

So, Chuck, the fact that my warp beam is so large should work in my favor and would mean less weight is needed. But "less" is a relative term. - Penny from my phone

You can increase the "torque" of the weight by increasing the diameter of the pulley the weight hangs from.

Hello! Thanks for adding me! I'm going to dive right in here. I've searched the archives for info on live weight tensioning and still have some questions. It's nice to see that Kati Meek is on this

So sad to hear. Really enjoyed working with her on Journal Articles. Sara von Tresckow, Fond du Lac, WI sarav@... Author of “When a Single Harness Simply Isn’t Enough”

So sorry to hear this. Prayer going up for her family and friends-- Lorelei

It is with great sadness that I report Linda Davis, author of The Missing Monograph: The Basics & Beyond, died on October 30. Her contributions to our weaving world were beyond measure, she will be

In Mac or PC? I use the thickness settings primarily for drafts with thick and thin wefts. So, if 4 = 20/2 warp & tabby, then 8 = thick. When transferring .wif drafts between different

Hi Sarah, You can change the thickness of the entire warp or weft from their respective menus - “fill thickness” for Mac, and “thickness” for Windows. The bottom of your posts says “sent

Hi All, In Fiberworks, it is possible to set the size of the entire warp and weft from their respective menus. The default setting is “4”. Do you know what approximate EPIs correspond to those

The Online Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers and the Braid Society have been using groups.io for a few years and prior to that Yahoo groups for workshops. Both these groups have hundreds of

I'm glad it worked out well. I had some misgivings when you first posted about it; the last time someone had used a group to communicate with a study group it was a disaster. I wasn't aware of

I wanted to let everyone know that I did choose to use Groups.io as the communication platform for a Zoom workshop and it worked extremely well. I chose to use the minimum Premium group, which costs