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After a long time, almost a year. I finally had the time to get to this project. As I did, I discovered that I had set up my loom incorrectly and was not able to weave until I fixed the installation of the friction brake, and the clutch for the cloth advance. Thank you to wonderful people on the Weaver’s Tech list.<\/p>\n
During this process I did decide on an initial draft of the first towels. It is based on two different Jacob Angstadt designs, both are 12 shaft pointed twills blocks. I wanted to get a checkerboard effect without needing to use two shuttles. This was made possible by reversing the tie-up blocks. \u00a0Now to the real work, weaving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After a long time, almost a year. I finally had the time to get to this project. As I did, I discovered that I had set up my loom incorrectly and was not able to weave until I fixed the installation of the friction brake, and the clutch for the cloth advance. Thank you to wonderful people on the Weaver’s Tech list.<\/p>\n
During this process I did decide on an initial draft of the first towels. It is based on two different Jacob Angstadt designs, both are 12 shaft pointed twills blocks. I wanted to get a checkerboard effect without needing to use two shuttles. This was made possible by reversing the tie-up blocks. Now to the real work, weaving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[148],"tags":[82,70,150,134,149,84],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-project","tag-cotton","tag-design","tag-dish-towels","tag-point-twill","tag-project","tag-towels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2H0sI-gP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historicweaving.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}