How To Use A Heddle Bar

I've spent a LOT of the past week weaving, mostly for but the one project that has really been grinding down my patience with each failure. I think I tin put each fault downwards to a lack of feel and planning. I rushed in with a carefree mental attitude and quickly realised that you only find out how much y'all dislike something after putting in the hours. It is so soul destroying to pick apart all this piece of work each time simply before I do I always endeavour to find the reason it hasn't worked first and take something from the failure.

In the past week I've watched each weaving develop and go from what was originally so bad it made me want to surrender, to something I'm and so proud of. I'll be sharing the fruits of the loom later this week just for now I'thou sharing quite possible the one affair that stopped me giving upward – this DIY Heddle Bar. This is such a game changer when you're weaving at home. The genius of the heddle bar is in the way information technology moves alternative warp threads up from the piece of work making information technology much easier to thread the yarn in between them. This saves so much time assuasive the weave to build at a much quicker pace. Best thing about them? They're really piece of cake to make! This tutorial completes the DIY Behemothic Loom postal service from final calendar week so you can notice the references to some of these techniques over in that tutorial.

Materials:

Square dowel
Knife saw
Pencil
Ruler
Pocket-size file

Instructions:

ane.Make sure the bar is the same length of the width of the loom. We need to cut the grooves along the heddle at the exact same points along the bar as they are forth the loom. Mensurate and mark off the the position of the grooves with a pencil and ruler.

2. So you're going to make cuts along the wood at each of these points only unlike the loom y'all'll be making these cuts at two dissimilar angles. Offset by cut the offset slot at the top corner downward two sides until you reach the adjacent ii corners. Go on to saw just passed these two corners. The dotted lines below show how the cuts should alternate.

3. Now do the same but starting from the bottom corner. Keep alternating the slots all the way forth the bar. When you've finished file them down until smooth.

four. Next you need to cut the ends then that the bar will sit at an angle on the sides of the loom. Mark off the corners at the cease of the bar to create a signal that faces the uncut side of the dowel.

5. Measure the width of the side of the loom and mark that measurement from the border of the heddle bar dowel. This will mark how far down you demand to cutting to create the angles.

six. Cut from the finish down the dowel creating the house shape you see in a higher place. Once you reach the point marked in step v saw from the outside in until the cuts encounter. Sand down the wood.

You should now be able to thread up the loom and fit the bar underneath all the the warp threads but over the superlative of the loom. Twisting the bar back and forth will bring the alternative warp threads forwards making it easier to thread under.