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In this session of Weaving Basics we will learn how to fix a broken thread.
I've been weaving along on this piece here and I've discovered that there are two knots
that need to be fixed. It's not a good idea
to weave over the knots because they will show in your weaving
whereas a fix won't show. So the first thing we have to do is we're going to
have to find out
how to put a repair thread in for this knot here.
What I do, is I...
this knot is fairly close to the reed here
so I'm going to cut it just a little bit lower, closer to me,
leave that thread there. I'm then going to
grab my warp thread and I'm gonna pull out a piece
of warp thread which is about equal to the length of the project that I still have to weave.
*snip*
and now I'm going to cheat
what I'm going to do is I'm going to tie these two together
in a little over hand knot.
It doesn't have to hold well, it's going to be pulled out later
All it has to do is it has to help me to pull this thread
through the reed and through the heddle to the back of my loom.
I'm going to take the other end, grab a tee pin
and I'm gonna pin in the same locations where the warp thread is,
a little further down, just put my tee pin in there
and I'm going to wind the cut end around the tee pin
several times in a figure eight. I'm also going to take the other warp end
of my new thread or my replacement thread
and wind it around several times in a figure eight
and then I'm just going to secure the pin. So I've now tied my knot,
I now have to go to the back of the loom and pull that knot through
I know that my problem was in this area somewhere
and what you do is you can run your fingers along and, sure enough, you can
see which thread it is
that was the loose one. By gently tugging on it...
you will tug through... there's the knot
and you keep pulling through until you tighten
that thread, which has been secured with a pin in the front.
So I've taken off the back
support beam here and I've now got my two warp ends here
and I tie them in a bow.
an ordinary bow will do
and I have fixed
that repair. These threads can hang down
or you can choose to wind them up like this
and just let them rest on the warp. As you advance the warp this will advance with it
so you need to come back occasionally to re-tie
always bring the bow back to where the back beam is
so that it doesn't impede the warp as it goes through the heddles.
You can also choose to weight
this thread, although that's not a system I typically use, I like to have my bow
I feel that it looks neater and it's tidier and I can adjust the tension
exactly to where it should be.