Warping Your Loom & Tying on New Warps by Peggy Osterkamp - PDF DOWNLOAD

In Book 2 of the series Peggy Osterkamp’s New Guide Weaving, you will learn how to prepare your loom for weaving beginning at the back of the loom. You will learn how to beam on, thread, and sley the reed. Chapters on sectional beaming, tying on new warps, knots, and adjusting jack-, counterbalance- and countermarch looms. Step-by-step summaries at the ends of chapters provide quick reference at the loom, and over 200 illustrations help you visualize every detail. Having Peggy’s books at your loom is like having a patient teacher at your side.

Series: Book 2 in the series Peggy Osterkamp’s New Guide to Weaving: A guide that makes weaving fun with new techniques from European handweavers and the textile industry.

Edition: 4th, 2021

ISBN

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0976885559

Number of pages: 206

©Peggy Osterkamp 1995, 1997, 2002, 2021. All rights reserved. At-home printing of the downloaded files for personal use by the purchaser is allowed. Any kind of sharing without express written permission is forbidden.

Contents

Introduction 1
1 Getting Started 5
2 Beaming on a Plain Beam 15
3 Threading the Loom and Sleying the Reed 39
4 Tying On 61
5 Tying Up the Treadles 67
6 Weaving 73
7 Sectional Beaming 81
8 Tying On New Warps 99
9 Adjusting Looms 111
10 The Automatic Warp Tension System 139
11 The Warping Drum 143
12 Combining Sectional and Plain Beaming 149
13 Two or More Warps 153
14 Designing Random Stripes 157
16 The AVL Warping Wheel for Sectional Beaming 173
Yarns, Equipment, and Sources 187
Index 193

About the author

Peggy Osterkamp, once an apprentice to renowned loommaker Jim Ahrens in a production weaving studio, has since introduced hundreds of students to the time-tested techniques of handweaving. She is a natural teacher with a knack for making the richness of her training and decades of experience accessible to all, a life-long textile scholar, and an artist who exhibits her work internationally. Follow her at www.peggyosterkamp.com

  Also by Peggy Osterkamp

 Weaving for Beginners: an Illustrated Guide

From beginners to advanced weavers and teachers, this indispensable handbook and textbook is a must-have on every weaver’s bookshelf.

 Peggy Osterkamp’s New Guide Weaving, a 3-part in-depth series on advanced weaving techniques

No. 1: Winding a Warp & Using a Paddle

No. 2: Warping Your Loom & Tying on New Warps

No. 3: Weaving & Drafting Your Own Cloth

DVD: Warping the Loom Back to Front