It is always good to have a friend help you when you wind your warp on, but not always possible, so if you are warping your Ashford rigid heddle loom on your own here is how you can wind it on yourself.
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- 1. Follow the warping instructions in the ‘Learn to weave’ booklet until you have tied the last warp thread onto the back warp stick. Keeping tension on the warp, lift the warp from the warping peg and place your right hand through the yarn loops.
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- 2. Twist the threads around your hand, maintaining an even firm tension, until you reach the front roller.
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- 3. Take the threads over the reed, keeping the same even, firm tension.
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- 4. Stand at the back of the loom. Turn the back handle towards you allowing the threads to pass through your hand. Wind until the back warp stick goes around the roller once.
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- 5. Insert a cardboard warp stick or piece of paper the full width of the loom. Continue adding cardboard warp sticks (1 in each rotation) or paper as you wind the warp on.
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- 6. Stop winding once the yarn loops reach the front of the loom. Cut through the yarn loops. Unclamp the loom and follow the ‘Learn to weave’ booklet for threading the reed.
Solo warping on a Rigid heddle loom
Assembly Instructions and
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