Threaded heddles.

View from the back of the loom looking through to the front from the back beam. The threading has been complete.

Pulling the individual threads through the front beam, two ends per dent with a fish eye hook.

Once the all the threads have been drawn through the dents attached to the front beam they are then tied onto the front stick in bundles of 10 or so. Weaving can now begin. 

This is a couple of shots of the beginning of the cloth collection that has a working title of "Hebridean Shore" ... well for the time being anyway. It's always tricky giving your products a name, I usually come up with a name fairly early on but they do tend to go through various incarnations before I settle on something that I either like or is fitting to the piece.

Like the other double cloth collections "Hebridean Green, Gold and Sunset" wefts are limited to the warps and I am really linking the contrast of the mercerised cotton with the lambs wool, which all hark back to my original drawings made whilst out in Shetlands and the Outer Hebrides - hence the names!

Feels like an age and a half since I have had a proper posting on my blog and after having come back from a great trip to Edale (see previous posting) where I met wood turner Robin Wood, I now feel all inspired to get blogging again.

So here we go ... 

These are some pics that I tweeted from @PickOneWeaver earlier today from my Leith based studio.

I completed warping up and began threading/dressing my 32 shaft Louet Loom for my third and final double cloth collection, using my v. handy sectional warping back beam.

As with previous warps yarns used consisted of the face cloth being a warp of 2 weights of mercerised/mercerized cotton and the back cloth a lambs wool. 

Both cloths are beamed directly onto the single back beam.

I will be weaving this piece during the next open studio event in the first week in December - more details on that to follow.

I anticipate getting approximately fourteen 2 meter plus pieces out of this warp.

More pics to follow as I move through the weaving and finishing process.