weaving workshop...

...today

using an old Harris table loom

the lovely Alice Evans showed my spinning and weaving group

how easy! warping up a loom can be...

once we had got our heads around dents per inch and simple maths

time to set about wrapping yarn around a warping frame

this took a lot of concentration

and an exercise involving my 8 times table

then time to put this yarn on the loom

now this took a lot of patience, good eyesight and a few cups of tea

just to ease off the back!

its a fairly long process before you can weave

but like most things, the preparation is about 2/3rd of the work

but then it was time to weave a first piece of yarn through shafts 1 and 3

and away you go

surprisingly it grows very quickly

and by the end of the day I had the beginnings of a sample piece of woven fabric

Thank you Alice for your expert tuition and patience

had a great day

just hope I remember it all!