Started this lovely diamond twill fabric, which will later be made into a hood for my partner, Eldgrimr. The threading isn’t perfect and I need to comtemplate fixing the threading errors. I think fixing two of them would just mean rewarping a few threads, however the last one may mean rewarping about 30 or so threads. That one may stay as it’s less noticeable than the others and threading errors are period!
Though I know I’d be happier with the time spent if I suck it up now and rewarp the errors!
It’s been a wonderful journey already, watching the lovely yellow wool go onto the loom, then fixing a few initial errors and finally now beginning to weave. There is something very satisfactory in weaving cloth as our oldest ancestors had done, rigid heddles have been found as far back as the Roman Era. The weaving is a bit slower than my 4 shaft floor loom, in terms of weaving. The differences trade off, this style weaving warps much faster, but weaves a bit slower. The floor loom takes a bit more time to warp (or seems to), but the weaving is much faster. I’m not sure if I will continue weaving textiles for Medieval re-enactment using this authentic equipment, or if I will choose to use my modern loom and weave even more cloth more quickly! This rigid heddle loom is still a modern loom with modern rigid heddles, so it’s a bit 50/50 in regards to that as well.
Alas my quest continues!
