HOW TO WARP YOUR NEW BEAD LOOM
for Wider Beading Projects, with Parallel Warp Threads
COTTON YARN USED TO SHOW TECHNIQUE CLEARLY
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 Tie a knotted loop in the end of your thread. |
 Pull your thread up through the loop |
 Place this larger loop around your loom |
 Bring the knot to the loom's front bar |
 Tip the loom, front bar UP |
 Wrap down & around, holding w/left thumb |
 ..and back UP to the front bar |
 holding w/left thumb, tuck the warp through.. |
 pull up & move left thumb to this new warp |
 do that for each warp thread you need |
 tie a knot to finish |
 grasping all the threads, pull down |
 all knots & twists pulled down behind front bar |
 each warp thread is parallel to the others |
 Set your loom upright, that's how it works! |
 here is the way actual warp thread looks |
 here is my warping relaxed |
 for narrow pieces, nothing more required |
 for wider pieces, and custom larger looms, tying the warp open with yarn is easy to do. |
 Here is an alternative way to hold open the warp, a whittled Popsicle Stick. |
 Custom Loom for 22" x 50" beadwork panel (large 1/2" beads in place as a sample) |
After you have your beadwork started, you will not have to worry about holding the warp open with anything but your beadwork, you will not have to keep it tied open.
