At an impasse
2025-04-01 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadethorneggeI am feeling stuck right now.
The silk satin sampler is still on the loom, but I am not sure if going with a looser or tighter sett is the best way forward.
With a linen or wool sampler it's not too much of a bother to re-sley when I am almost at the end of the warp - but this silk weighs nothing at all, and the danger is it pulls back on me and falls out of the heddles, and gets disorganized at the back tie on bar.
I feel like I've been given conflicting advice as well. One voice said, do the sett at the number of thread wraps - which would mean 15 or 16 ends per cm. Which is a WILD deviation from the 40 epc I put it on the loom as.
I could try putting the warp even tighter, and space out the wefts even more? Maybe that'll force the warp to cover more?
I can't decide, and I'm not sure I'll be able to keep the ends under control for a fourth re-sleying if I commit to one of these first.
Furthermore, I am completely devoid of any other crafting inspiration. Currently I don't see a future with events in it, and so all interest wanes. If I have no practical purpose or use for my crafts, they don't get done. I have known this about me since I was 14.
The silk satin sampler is still on the loom, but I am not sure if going with a looser or tighter sett is the best way forward.
With a linen or wool sampler it's not too much of a bother to re-sley when I am almost at the end of the warp - but this silk weighs nothing at all, and the danger is it pulls back on me and falls out of the heddles, and gets disorganized at the back tie on bar.
I feel like I've been given conflicting advice as well. One voice said, do the sett at the number of thread wraps - which would mean 15 or 16 ends per cm. Which is a WILD deviation from the 40 epc I put it on the loom as.
I could try putting the warp even tighter, and space out the wefts even more? Maybe that'll force the warp to cover more?
I can't decide, and I'm not sure I'll be able to keep the ends under control for a fourth re-sleying if I commit to one of these first.
Furthermore, I am completely devoid of any other crafting inspiration. Currently I don't see a future with events in it, and so all interest wanes. If I have no practical purpose or use for my crafts, they don't get done. I have known this about me since I was 14.
