Tying up the Bergman Countermarch Loom - Part 1 (Texsolv Method)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- In this video I demonstrate tying up my Bergman Countermarch Loom using a Texsolv cord method I found called Top O' The Lamm Tie Up by @jeanflores2242. This is Part 1 of a 2 Part video. Part 2 will cover using the original tie-up method using linen cords.
Credit Sarah Jackson Handwoven Designs for the Two by Two Squirrel towel design featured in the intro ( / @sarahjacksonhandwoven... )
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Thank you so much for sharing this information. So helpful!!
You are so welcome! Glad you found it helpful.
I am finally ready to go with the Texolv cords for the tie-ups. What length do you recommend? Sorry if you mentioned it already in your video.
Sorry it's taken so long to get back with you on this question. The length is really dependent on how high your lamms are from the treadles. For my loom I used 2 lengths. For the lower lamms they are about 16" long; the upper lamms are 21" long. I leave enough hanging under the treadle so I can easily grab it and adjust the height of the treadle. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching and Happy Weaving ❤️
Hi Grace. I am thinking of getting a countermarch loom. Could i just use it as a rising shed loom for if i wanted to or does it always have to be used as a countermarch. Thank you
I think technically you probably could use just the lamms that raise the warp threads, but you would decrease the size of your shed by 1/2 by doing that. I'm not sure what benefit there would be to doing so. Once you get used to tying up a countermarch loom it's pretty easy. But it does entail doing twice the tie-ups as a jack loom. Good luck and let me know if you have any questions. Happy weaving!
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Thank you Grace. Also, thank you for mentioning that if I just used a countermarch loom as just a rising shed loom that I would only get half a shed. I really didn't think of that 🤔. I have a baby wolf jack loom with 10 treadles. I did weave the stickler Turned Atwater Bronson lace pattern that you did in one of your videos. I did tweak the tie up because it was not weaving like your pattern but I got there in the end. However, the pattern required 12 treadles and I only had 10. I went onto Tim's Treadle reducer and got this down to 10 treadles but for some sheds I had to step onto two treadles at a time. This worked fine and the tea towels were lovely. However, I am thinking of getting a Julia countermarch loom but it only has 8 treadles and compared to my Baby Wolf loom I will be losing 2 treadles. Tying up a countermarch loom is not a problem but to weave a 12 treadle pattern on an 8 treadle loom could be an issue. I have heard somewhere that you cannot step on 2 treadles at once on a countermarch loom so that's why I asked if I could just use it as a jack loom. Could I step on 2 treadles at once if need be? I guess you have plenty of treadles on your loom so you may never have needed to go onto Tim's Treadle reducer 😅😅. The Baby Wolf is a great loom but it's really heavy and really noisy and not the slightest ergonomically friendly. I think it's got to go but there are definitely pros and cons with all looms. Sorry for this extra long message but I thought I would explain my reasoning for thinking I could use a countermarch loom as a jack loom.
I guess it really depends on 2 things: What type of weaving do you like/want to do? And how large of a shed does the countermarch loom you're looking at give you? In other words, can you afford to lose 1/2 the shed? On my loom, even though it's a countermarch, it has a relatively small shed (around 2"). But if it normally has a 4" shed, then 2" is acceptable and you MIGHT be able to set it up as a jack loom. There is also a way to create a skeleton tie-up with SOME drafts but it makes my head hurt trying to figure it out. Which brings me back to the first question ~ what type of weaving do you like/want to do? Do you think you will feel limited and disappointed if you couldn't weave the Turned Atwater-Bronson draft? Do you like pushing the boundaries of your weaving and using every treadle and then some? Or is that the one-off project that you could live without weaving? I personally would miss my 14 treadles, even though I weave 4- to 8-shaft projects. BUT, I would not go back to a jack loom for many reasons, a few of which you listed in your comment. BTW there ARE countermarch looms built with more treadles than the number of shafts +2. Or it's possible to add treadles if your engineeringly minded. I wish I could give you a definitive answer but I can't. Good luck and Happy Weaving!
@@tangledwebsweaving Thank you so much Grace. I will seriously ponder all this. Weaving definitely opens a can of worms 🤔