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		<title>Rus Kaftan Update &#8211; weaving, finally.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 05:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been a few weeks since I last posted.  I was at the part of the project that wasn&#8217;t terribly exciting.  I finished threading the loom.  That took about 6 days of working a few hours each evening.   Then came time to beam the warp. Oh.  Em.  Gee, guys.  What a pain! It took me and my helpers (four of them!) about eight hours over three days to beam this thirteen yard warp.  Remember that the warp is twelve hundred threads densely packed onto three shafts, so as the threads passed back to the beam fuzzy bits would tangle around each other and bind up the threads.  I was forced to stop every six inches or so and detangle them. The magyar kaftan cloth, even more densely packed at thirty six ends per inch of the same weight yarn, was so much easier to beam then this.  This was probably because the ends were spread out over eight harnesses and there was room for the threads to move freely. Eventually, the warp was beamed.  As I was tying on to the apron, I worried about the weaving experience.  Would it be as challenging to weave as it was to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rus Kaftan Cloth Project Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To find and read all the entries for this project, you can go here. In the last week, I&#8217;ve made some important decisions to the plan for weaving the Rus Kaftan cloth and made quite a bit of actual progress on moving the project forward. The first thing I decided to do was to make the warp narrower and longer.  This decision was predicated on the desire to reduce loom waste and to make it a little easier to weave.  Weaving wide cloth basically means that you are holding your arms out at the shoulder for hours throwing the shuttle.  I try to use good posture when I&#8217;m weaving, however weaving is very physically demanding and I have some back issues.  And, really, the cloth doesn&#8217;t need to be that wide for what I&#8217;m going to do with it. I&#8217;ve reduced the number of warp ends from 1422 to 1200 and increased the length from 11 1/2 yards to 13 yards long.  With a sett of 32 ends per inch, this makes the warp about 37 inches at the reed, reduced from 44. I finished measuring the warp threads for a total of 1200 ends in six groups of 200.  Then I sleyed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wooden trenchers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, we started  making wooden trenchers based on ones in the Oseberg grave finds.  I don&#8217;t have a lot of information on the extant trenches like size and the type of wood from which they are made.  We are just going off this one picture I was able to find. In the wood shop, we had some nice 5/4 X 9 inch fir boards that were bought for a different project and never used.  We cut it down to about about 15 inches long.   We&#8217;re using a tool called a rounded scorp g0uge to carve out the trencher by hand.  We&#8217;re focused on getting the feel for the tool, initially.  In order to get it working smoothly, you don&#8217;t want to try to cut too deeply into the wood or it will get stuck. The plan is to make several of these trenchers for our use at reenactor events. In the picture below, its difficult to see the progress we&#8217;ve made on dishing the trencher.   It is deeper then it appears.  Obviously, our trenchers will be shallower then then one in the reference photo since our starting piece of wood is thinner.  That spoon-like thing is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rus Kaftan Cloth &#8211; Measuring the Warp</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Started measuring the warp threads for the Rus kaftan point diamond twill cloth today.  I am 1/3 of the way done, as I took long breaks to teach a friend some beginning lampworking techniques and to brainstorm viking age food options for some upcoming reenactor events. I&#8217;ve decided to weave at a 37 inch width rather than the full width of my reed.  I hope it will reduce the time needed for threading and also reduce some of the loom waste.  Frankly, the cloth just doesn&#8217;t need to be that wide for the coat.  Also, I&#8217;m hopeful that it will save my pectoral muscles just a little bit too when I actually get to the weaving part. I&#8217;ve got a couple of evenings after work ahead of me to finish up measuring the 13 yard warp threads before I get to the next step.]]></description>
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		<title>Linen towels &#8211; washed, dried and hemmed.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After I cut the linen warp off the loom and cut the towels apart, I hand washed and air-dried one of the towels to see how it would react.   That came out well, so I screwed up the courage to throw all the towels in the washing and drying machines.    They came out well!  The weave and the fiber relaxed into a nice drapey hand. Next step was to press them and hand hem them.  I&#8217;m about half way through the hemming and loving out this project turned out.]]></description>
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		<title>End of the line for the linen weaving project</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finished up the linen weaving project tonight.  Seven loom-controlled-lace  towels complete!  They are cut apart, the edges sewn and ready to be washed tomorrow. After that I&#8217;ll hem them by hand and they will be ready to use. Its hard to believe that this project was started just a week ago.  What a fast, fun experience.  I really enjoyed weaving with linen and I can&#8217;t wait to do another project.  So many plans in my head! Toward the end, I was having some tension issues with some of the linen threads.  I suspect this was due to the loom controlled lace and the differing rates of take up. Additionally, I had an issue with the selvage on the left side for one of the towels. I believe that the treadling was stressing those threads.  When I switch to throwing the shuttle from the opposite on that treadle, the problem magically cleared up.  Weirdness!]]></description>
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		<title>Rus Kaftan Cloth Yarn Calculations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 of this series can be found here. The yarn I ordered arrived today for the Rus Kaftan cloth project.  I am very pleased with the colors.  The reddish color is exactly the dark maddery red-orange I was hoping it was from the little bit on the sample card. I was inspired to calculate the warp length I will need.  My process is a little different in that I work backwards from the amount of yarn I have to the length of warp I can get from that. Since I ordered three pounds of each color, and each pound is roughly 5600 yards, I have 16800  yards of yarn to play with. Once again, the Warp and Weft Calculator from Haley Studio proved invaluable to these calculations. My loom has a reed width of 45 or 46 inches.  The maximum I care to go in the reed is about 44.5 inches.  This will net me a woven width (after shinkage) of about 36 inches. The part I really need to know about now is the warp measurement. So, I will measure out 1422 warp ends at approximately 11 1/2 yards long.  This will net me approximately 9 yards of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting together the new jurta door</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last winter, my husband built a new door and frame for the jurta.  The primary requirement was that it would easily break down for transport, unlike the red and black doors,which were transported in one piece.  The construction was inspired by a yurt door design in &#8220;Yurta: a Central Asian Nomad&#8217;s Hearth and Home&#8221;, a video produced as part of a kirghiz yurt exhibit at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego in 1997. In late March 2012, I had an opportunity to document the process of putting to the jurta door together.]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend progress on linen weaving project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spent most of the weekend working on getting the linen weaving project on the loom. Saturday, I sleyed the reed and completed threading.  Sunday, with some help from a friend, I was able to wind on the seven yard warp and start weaving. The sleying and threading wasn&#8217;t all that different from the wool warps I&#8217;ve done before.  The big difference was in the winding on.  It went FAST.  No tangling.  No fuzzies.  No stretching.   It was so nice.  I can&#8217;t believe its taken me this long to try weaving with linen. I was also concerned about winding  the perns, thinking that the &#8220;springy-ness&#8221; of the fiber would cause the perns to spontaneously unravel.  That has not been an issue so far. I&#8217;m using an end feed shuttle, as I normally do.  I  have a 15 inch Shacht end feed shuttle I&#8217;m using for the bulk of the weaving.  The white stripes are being done on my Bluster Bay 11 inch end feed shuttle.  I&#8217;m not using a floating warp.  The design has plain weave on the selvage and it seems to be taking care of itself. I&#8217;m being really careful with throwing the shuttle.  I&#8217;m really not throwing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress on the linen weaving warp</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I made good progress on the linen weaving project.   The warp ends have all been measured and are hanging in chains from the hanging beater of my loom (because I have a cat). There are a total of 386 warp ends at 7 yards long.  The ends will be sleyed in a 10 dent per inch reed. This weekend, I&#8217;m hoping to get the sleying, threading and winding on of the warp completed so I can start weaving.  I&#8217;m somewhat nervous.  Linen is very &#8220;springy&#8221;.  Winding the warp ought to be an adventure.]]></description>
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