I'm not sure where the term "warp speed" -- as in extremely fast, so
Star Trek-fast that you zip from one universe to the next in less time
than it takes to type this, less time, in probability, than it takes to
blink your eyes. Because warping a loom is a slow, deliberate process.
About as far away as you can get from thos satisfying traverses across
millions of miles of space and time in a fictional warp speed. (Caveat:
there may be a real science principle at work here. but I majored in
English.) This, then, is my 4-harness Schacht loom, which I bought with
money from returned wedding presents, 33 years ago, in the process of
being warped.
Here are some of the 400 threads, being individually threaded through
the heddles (a long rectangular strip of metal with an eye in the center
for threading).
This
is a page from Marguerite Davison's Handweaver's Pattern Book.
Published in the fifties, I think, it's a recipe book of old weaving
drafts, or patterns, for 4-harness loom. I using the Finnish Twill
pattern. I've used this one before for towels and napkins and I like it
(despite having no Finnish heritage).
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And more slow: jigsaw puzzle. |
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