Lesson #1: Warp a Frame Loom

The frame loom we built last week is very easy to warp for a project. To demonstrate I suggest making some nice placemats of thick cotton or poly rag strips. This will work up quickly giving you confidence for the more difficult projects to follow.

Take rag strips of around six inches width and sew them into a long strip. You can roll it into a ball for convienence. I was fortunate to get free rag strips at a literal *free for the hauling* fire sale, but any sheet weight will do.

Start by tying the cloth strip to the bottom bar in the left corner as in the picture above. Wind the cloth up and over the top bar and then come around to the bottom bar again as in the next picture.

Keep going on in this manner until the whole loom is full as in the picture below.

Then tie off the cloth strip.

Wow! You have just warped your first loom. Don't you feel proud. The type of warp you produced is called a continuous warp as it winds continuously around the loom. This is a very traditional warp used in many sorts of weaving including Navaho rugs.

In this case it allows you to weave projects on both the front and back of the loom, thus saving time.

Next week we begin to weave!

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