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Ashford Katie Table Loom Instructions
Project notes for the Katie Table Loom
Please read in conjunction with the Learn to Weave on the Table Loom booklet.
YOUR FIRST PROJECT –
A STRIPED TABLE RUNNER
You will need:
Warping frame
Ruler or yarn gauge
Tape measure
Raddle
String
Scrap yarn
Scissors
Warp and weft yarn – Cottolin 22/2 (60% cotton, 40% linen;
1600m/1749yds; 250gm/8½ ozs), Natural 80gm (3ozs) and Rust
20gm (½ozs).
Here's how:
Sett – 20 ends per inch (8 ends per cm)
No. of ends: 240
Warp length: 2yds (2m)
Width in reed: 12ins (30cm)
Finished size (hemmed and washed): 9¾ x 46in (25 x 116cm)
Weave Structure:
Balanced plain weave - there are equal numbers of warp and weft
threads to the inch (cm).
Reading the Draft for the Table Runner
Pattern drafts are made of four parts:
1. Threading draft
2. Shafts
3. Liftings
4. Drawdown
1. Threading Draft
This shows the order in which the warp is threaded through the
heddle eyes. Threading drafts are read from right to left. For this
project, the first warp thread will be threaded through the heddle on
shaft one. Four pattern repeats are shown.
1. Threading Draft
4. Drawdown
2. Shafts
Show which shaft to use when threading and lifting.
3. Liftings
This is the order the shafts will be lifted for each weft pick. For this
project the first shafts lifted are 1, 3, 5 and 7 by pushing levers 1, 3,
5 and 7 down. Note - lever 1 is on the left and lifts shaft 1, the front
shaft.
Ashford Handicrafts Ltd.
Factory and Showroom: 415 West Street,
PO Box 474, Ashburton, New Zealand
Telephone 64 3 308 9087
Facsimile 64 3 308 8664
Internet: www.ashford.co.nz
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
8
7
6
5
2. Shafts
4
3
2
1
3. Liftings
4. Drawdown
The diagram of the woven cloth produced by the threading and shaft
liftings.
Winding the Warp for the Table Runner
Threading
Start peg
End peg
* The raddle cross will be made after each group of 10 threads.
Warp Colour Order
Using a warping frame wind on the warping threads in the following
sequence:
Remember: Each trip from the first peg to the last and back again will be
two warp ends.
1. Wind 30 ends Natural
2. Wind 10 ends Rust
3. Wind 160 ends Natural
4. Wind 10 ends Rust
5. Wind 30 ends Natural
Continue as per instructions in the Learn to Weave on the Table
Loom booklet with the following exception.
Step 11. Release one end of the cross stick. Slide each group of
threads off the cross stick and onto the raddle. To ensure warp
is centred place first group of threads in the
centre pin of the raddle.
cross
Raddle
cross *
12th
space from the
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