Comments on: Rigid Heddle & Twill Questions http://www.thepurplelotus.org/blog/2009/12/rigid-heddle-twill-questions/ Weaving Magic Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:29:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: weavemage http://www.thepurplelotus.org/blog/2009/12/rigid-heddle-twill-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-12 weavemage Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:44:31 +0000 http://www.thepurplelotus.org/?p=239#comment-12 Cool! Thanks I think I've got my mind wrapped around this now! Fortunately I'm only half way through the back heddle, so I don't have much to redo. I also have to figure out how wide it will actually be and recenter it in the heddle! Would you believe that when threading the back heddle I noticed that I had the red stripe in the compulete and utterly wrong place! I threaded it in the heddle in the right spot and will just roll the threads onto the front bar, slide the threads off the back bar and back on in the right order then roll it all back onto the back bar. It means I'll have a lot of paper prepared for that back bar! :) Thanks again for your help! Cool! Thanks I think I’ve got my mind wrapped around this now! Fortunately I’m only half way through the back heddle, so I don’t have much to redo. I also have to figure out how wide it will actually be and recenter it in the heddle!
Would you believe that when threading the back heddle I noticed that I had the red stripe in the compulete and utterly wrong place! I threaded it in the heddle in the right spot and will just roll the threads onto the front bar, slide the threads off the back bar and back on in the right order then roll it all back onto the back bar. It means I’ll have a lot of paper prepared for that back bar! :)
Thanks again for your help!

]]> By: Alison http://www.thepurplelotus.org/blog/2009/12/rigid-heddle-twill-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Alison Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:45:46 +0000 http://www.thepurplelotus.org/?p=239#comment-11 Hi J! Have a look at my post <a href="http://yarninmypocket.typepad.com/yarn_in_my_pocket/2007/11/21-twill-gettin.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I think <a href="http://yarninmypocket.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/19/21_threading.jpg" rel="nofollow">this</a> diagram will help, especially. Your final epi is 1.5 times that of the heddles you use, so if you use the 10dpi heddles, you'll end up at 15epi. Thread two threads through each slot in the back heddle, and one thread through each hole. The same in the front heddle: two threads per slot, and one per hole. Making sure, of course, that the 'back hole' threads become 'front slot' threads, and one of the 'back slot' threads from each pair becomes the 'front hole' thread! Have fun! :) Hi J! Have a look at my post here. I think this diagram will help, especially. Your final epi is 1.5 times that of the heddles you use, so if you use the 10dpi heddles, you’ll end up at 15epi. Thread two threads through each slot in the back heddle, and one thread through each hole. The same in the front heddle: two threads per slot, and one per hole. Making sure, of course, that the ‘back hole’ threads become ‘front slot’ threads, and one of the ‘back slot’ threads from each pair becomes the ‘front hole’ thread!

Have fun! :)

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