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First set of weights

First set of weights

Used materials: linen fabric, linen and cotton thread, wollen yarn, metal rings, lead pellets. Needle, scissors, sewing machine. Kitchen scale. Hands. 😀 Made 18 weights – according to number of tablets needed to weave the pattern I chose for the test band. Initially I wanted 

On weights

On weights

Weights are progressing slowly. It seems that most people who tension their warp for tablet weaving using weights tend to use fishing weights. For example, Guntram does it this way. Initially, I planned to follow his example, but it turned out that my grandfather, who 

Look before you leap…

Look before you leap…

That’s exactly how it went for us – we looked, and we looked again, and we looked… and then we leaped. Quite unexpectedly, really. That is, we ordered the loom. Just in time for the end of summer and the beginning of the new indoor