After much hemming and hawing and gnashing of teeth, I've finally started actual work on weaving my Perugia towel. Or at least trying to warp the bloody thing. It's not going well. I decided to use 40/4 linen, which is pretty close to what was used on the original, and have ended up with a total of 1278 warp ends. I ended up having to scrounge up more heddels for my loom to accommodate all of these threads and rearrange the ones I already had to work with the pattern draft.
Once I got almost halfway done threading, I realized that the pattern draft I was using (from the CA on Perugia towels) has a mistake. It will not allow you to treadle tabby, which you need to do for the actual Perugia part of the towel (the blue brocaded bands). So I re-drafted the draw-down and started re-threading the loom only to discover that I now had my heddles arranged such that I did not have enough on the 3rd and 4th shaft of the loom. I've now solved that problem, only to snap one of my warps in the process.
Fixing a snapped warp is not that hard, it just sucks to have to do it this soon. I mean, I don't even have the whole thing threaded yet. I'm hoping and praying that I actually have the warp arranged on the loom correctly, since I an so short of heddles for this project I need to have exactly half the threads on each side of the center mark on the shafts, or I'm going to run out of heddles. They make clip-in repair heddles, which are sort of expensive but I may have to break down and order some just in case.
To make things just that much more annoying, I discovered that I made a mistake on the brick stitch book cushion, right in the middle no less, and had to rip out about 4 hours worth of work. So I spent the better part of a day last week ripping out and re-doing what I had already done.
Some weeks are like that I guess.
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