I still have a piece of double cloth on the Voyager which is white silk with squares of dyed silk in various bright colours. I went back to that last night to finish a sample to be washed. I think it is a little stiff as double cloth with warp and weft interchange can be and I would like a softer feel and drape. So I will re-sley it if it does not soften up in the (hand) wash.
You will notice that the second coloured square from the top looks different. It is. I transferred the shaft lists to a post-it note and stuck it on the Voyager to speed things up - and I copied it wrong, didn't I? It is corrected in the top square. Quite a nice effect, though
In weaving along, I discovered two nasty facts. The Voyager is very small and there is not much space at the back, so I had put the replacement threads for the abandoned lurex warp on weights, two at a time. This is a mistake as, in three cases, one thread has become much slacker than the other. I will replace each of these weights with two weights. A nuisance because the Voyager is so small that the weights have to be adjusted every time the cloth is wound on.
The other nasty and startling fact is that the draw-in is tremendous at 260 mm in the reed to 235 mm off the loom. As a by-product, the edge threads are beginning to look fuzzy. I am not keen on a temple with silk but I think I have to try. After all, the warp silk is 8/2 and should be able to take it.
I've got a second warp beam for my Voyageur, I haven't fitted and used it yet, but I expect it would be helpful in this sort of situation.
ReplyDeleteI agree a second warp beam would be helpful but I am curious as to where it could be fitted and I can find no mention of a second warp beam on Leclerc's website. I also note that you call yours a Voyageur whereas mine is a Voyager. Can you let me know how yours fixes onto the loom?
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