Yesterday I got my missing tool (thank you Amazon!) and made the adjustments on the Fireside temple. Then I tied on and debugged the warp, all the time waiting for the Magical Moment when the cloth would meet the temple. Despite staying up late, I didn’t quite manage to get there, but I have high hopes for this evening, after my class on working with precious metal clay.
Here’s a pic of the progress so far (just a simple debugging design):
The rolling temple functions by rolling the cloth across two rings of pins. The clear plastic protector presses the fabric down over the pins, ensuring good contact. So far it’s been working pretty well just on the naked warp – I imagine it’ll do even better when it has fabric to work on!
Aaaaand, it’s off to the post office (to mail out my extra copies of Handwoven to everyone in my family who might be even vaguely interested), and thence to my precious metal clay class. I’ll report back on what I learn, tonight.
Just a suggestion about using the Fireside rotary temple. In the instructions of Positioning the temples refer to #3 . The temples are put into use after the ” heading’ is woven and after the apron/tie-up stick clear the front beam. You will loose several inches off warp, however you can control your draw-in. It took me several applications of sliding the temple into position and getting the pins under the woven selvedge. I find they work great and my take-in is less than 1/2 inch total. Also refer to the installation notes of “tracking the cloth’. I do find that after awhile the cloth runs off the pins as you weave along, and the temple needs an adjustment. All of this does slow you down, but the finished product is well worth it. I us my temples on every single project, even is it is only 10 in. wide. Stay well and eat your vegetables.
I got written up in one of the regional mags a couple of years ago. I must still have a couple dozen copies! (-;