Triloom Prewarp

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Triloom Pre-warp

• Weaving with specialty and novelty yarns

Hazel explained this technique to me. Check out
her website for great little looms. Hazel Rose
Looms
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Delicate Yarns

• Any fiber which
• will not stand up
• to the abrasion of
• heddle or shuttle
• may be
• perfect for use
• on the triloom.

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Continuous Weave Method Also Damaging

• Even the normal triloom continuous weave method
  can be too abrasive on yarns with large slubs or
  other extending fibers.

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Pre-warped Loom

• By pre-warping the loom the amount of shed that
  must be cleared for each yarn pass is reduced to
  the actual size of the yarn.

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How To Pre-warp

• With the hypotenuse at the top, starting at the
  apex nail, run the yarn up to the rightmost nail
  or peg.

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Pre-warping 2

• Continue running the yarn, hooking it on each
  successive nail maintaining an even tension.

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First Weave

• Once the loom is dressed, attach the weft to the
  left-most top nail and weave a loop down, towards
  the right. You will continue weaving top to
  bottom by weaving loops through the warp.

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Mandatory Edge Techniques

• In the continuous weave style, all three sides
  are stable.
• The pre-warp weave style, requires additional
  techniques.
• Careful weaving near the hypotenuse and arms
• Right arm loops must be secured.

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Weaving Through The Loops

• To insure that the weaving is stable it is
  necessary to weave THROUGH the warp threads at
  every hypotenuse nail.

• Additionally, the first few passes should also be
  woven in this manner from top to bottom.

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Balancing The Tight Weave Areas

• Once the first few passes are completed you may
  wish to begin weaving a different pattern
• Basket weave
• Twill
• Care should be taken, to maintain the tighter
  weave for the full length of the hypotenuse, and
  to mirror the number of tight weave rows on the
  left arm at the right.

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Finishing The Right Arm

• When your weaving is done leave a long tail of
  yarn.
• Thread the tail through a darning needle and
  needle-weave through the unwoven loops.

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Additional Finishing

• Shawl is now stable and can be worn as is.
• Other finishing techniques
• Cut fringe on the loom
• Continuous fringe 2 ended ball for spiral
• Crochet single crochet other patterns
• Knit picked up edgings
• Hint a finer yarn makes a better finisher.
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