Lift or lower the shafts in either of these two ways. Threading and sleying ease. Since the height of the shafts can be adjusted with some extra length of the cord at the screw eyes, make the cords about 4-5 inches longer than what you measure from the fold to the screw eye on each side. The special tie up you are questioning is show in fig. I will have millions of questions I’m sure but so far my first is : Will Mr Ahrens tie up work for an eight harness ( and if yes, do I still use two of my 10 treadles for tabby)? I just did the second printing so it will be awhile before I do the Weaving for Beginneers as a PDF. The 3 rollers are shown on page 115 in my Book #2 which is soon to be out in pdf. that isn’t hard if your feet or shoes aren’t very narrow. Each treadle cord has its own hole and comes up through its hole to its own dog clip. Can you recommend a good string for tying up shafts that is strong and doesn’t untie itself? Texsolv cord is great. 1 & 2) to a treadle, when you press the treadle, those 2 shafts will go DOWN and the other 2 shafts (3,4) will automatically go UP. Loop one end of each tie-up cord through a hole in the lamm. on the California Side in the Mountains .. Try the special tie up to see how a twill (and many, many weaves) treadle with this special tie-up that Jim Ahrens devised. A direct tie up is anything where just one shaft is tied to one treadle. The information on tying up the two-beam looms, scroll to the bottom of this page. I’m a beginner and can’t seem to “get my head around” how one would “translate” all regular weaving drafts to work with this treadle tie up. Thank you thank you thank you! Maybe 1,2,3,4 could be divided down to two treadles instead of 4: lift 1&3 then add to that 2&4. All warp threads move. One strategy is to tie fewer than needed to two treadles–then lift one first and then the other to complete a shed. Tie-ups can be changed in seconds without difficulty. I have learned quick a bit about my loom from a ton of you tube videos but here is where I have ran into a road block. Growing up in Ohio, I It is easier for your foot to find the outside treadle and work inward. I own a J.L. As peg pointed out, it is fairly common to use the first 4 treadles for direct tie-up for a twill or other pattern and then use treadles 5 and 6 for the tabby (5=1&3, 6=2&4). Supported treadles are so, so much easier to tie-up! I just cant afford that much right now. Check out the website I made about his looms’ details and how to use them: ahrenslooms.com Peggy, Hi Peggy I have one of your books Weaving for beginners , What other books would you recommend for beginners ? For example, to weave a plain weave (tabby) you would lift shafts 1 & 3 using the left foot on the crack between the 2 left treadles to press both treadles so 1 & 3 would lift. That’s why there are only 4 treadles. One set makes the shafts go up, the other, down. That’s my best suggestion.That and Weaving for Beginners are the top book preferences. I just keep coming back to your blog for answers………………….. And I’ve been a happy camper ever since I saw this Ahren’s Universal Tie Up! The difference is that the treadles under the loom are not tied up from left to right. I described a tie-up that never needs to be How do you convert tie-ups then? To achieve this, the first treadle should be the outside left, then outside right. Thank You Peggy for responding. Can not wait to try this out! Let me know if you have questions you’d like me to address in the blog. I was reading your info on how to tie up for a better treadling… but as I look at it once more, I see that your diagram is for a jack loom.. My mistake.. I’ll try reducing my warp tension. I hope I can help you out. All help greatly appreciated very much. And truthfully it confuses me. I have just stumbled on this. Your loom may be a counter balance loom which likes always to have two shafts up and 2, down for the cleanest sheds. I have acquired a beautiful loom made by Eugene Robocker from Kalispell, MT. All FOUR-SHAFT structures/tie-ups can be woven with this one tie-up. I have had some major issues researching tie ups for counterbalance as everyone seems to have jack looms! These chains are sold individually, hooking from the treadles to the lamms. Each shaft has to be tied to one set of lamms or the other. Let me know. So glad I accidentally found this article. Each tie up has a loop at each end. Its a 4 harness, 6 treadle one. I wrote it so I could learn how to do it myself. Do I need the other set of tie ups on the treadles, and why do they have those. The shed is sort of okay, but erratic. Very often it’s too tight tension on the warp threads.That can cause other problems, as well. It’s important, very important to start simple –there will be enough to challenge you –and you might even please yourself. The shafts have little eye hooks and the treadles have eyehooks. Peggy. This is my first 8 shaft project with cottton yarn and I’m enjoying every bit of it. now that I can tie up my treadles, I can move forward and actually start working on it! When you make the move to more pattern shafts you will need those treadles because you will have so many more options for tying them up in different sequences. In this sequence you can see a tie-up where the treadle is tied to shafts 2 and 3. You will usually use two treadles at a time. This is my first counterbalance loom, I’ve only worked on jack looms in the past. As you progress right to left the cords get longer and longer. Dear Peggy, I’m helping to renovate an an old counter balanced 4 treadle, 4 lamms loom. In Warping Your Loom & Tying On New Warps, (my book #2) beginning on page 69, The others are references–the details and why’s to do things. Thank you, I’ll check that out. Cecilia, Argentina.”. If only some treadles need 4 shafts, perhaps you could add weight to the ones that should be down for those picks. I wrote it with you in mind–what I taught my students. Does this make sense? This is great! 218 On Leclerc floor looms, the tie-up cords may be left in place on the lamms When not being used. No, all the copies are gone. That clip will be hooked to one or more cords attached to one or more of the shafts. Diana, Eugene’s wife, Catherine “Jean” Robocker, is still living in Kalispell. I put on a warp that is long enough for at least 6 kitchen towels and I want to do a different pattern on each towel. Another thought: Can you tie your treadles for one section of the design, then change the tie up for the next area so you can divide down the shafts to fewer shafts on onto each treadle. the next treadle gets shaft 3 then continuing going left to right, tie the next treadle to shaft 4 and the last one tie to shaft 2. then to get plain weave or tabby. Now, during the Holiday sale you can get a book free with a book purchased. I’m using my handspun wool now almost exclusively, am trying singles now on the loom, and am finding the ins and outs of doing that. Yes, sometimes you need to push two treadles with one foot. Will let you know how I get on with the Listena counterbalance loom……, hello! I’m a complete newbie tieing up for the first time my brand new loom which came this morning. I think getting my book Weaving for Beginners is a must for you. Try to see the fold and knot in the cord in the photo showing the shaft tie-up dog clips. Also, you only need the height to be enough for the shuttle to pass.The tie up is really wonderful–you can treadle all the possible combinations without retying the treadles. At the moment, shafts 1 &2 are on one side of the counterbalance piece and 3&4 are on the other side. Check them out at the web. The 4 center treadles are used, tied as 1,2,3 and 4. Then you need two below as you say 1 &2 on one roller and 3 & 4 on the other. The shortest cord goes from the treadle on the right to the pulley in the center. Zooming out, we see the two cords from the previous picture going from one shaft to two different treadles. It isn’t a name-brand loom, but hand built many years ago “after the Finnish style” for a Finnish woman. Check out my website http://www.peggyosterkamp.com. I am on my first project (decorative pillows) and part of the pattern is 1/3 twill which has been such a pain for treadling, I JUST set up the treading in this article and am blown away! You may want to notice that the cords from the treadles farthest away are going around the outside pulleys. Thanks for both your comments. You might be interested in the engineering that Jim Ahrens did when he build his looms. I wonder if your warp tension is too high. My 4-shaft loom has only 4 treadles. I don’t have a list but I’ll surely post it on the website. Joanne I’m in the process of warping up my second project on a 4 treadle loom and have been scratching my head about tie-ups as A)most plans seem to be for 6 treadle and B) 1-4 straight across is ok but awkward. There are several possibilities depending upon the design you are looking to make. I’m 120 miles NW of Reno NV. You can see another treadle cord going down, and that’s because in the tie-up draft a single shaft can be raised in different combinations with different treadles. The other cord, the one on the left, runs to a pulley in the center, and then to an outside right treadle. Her father was Arthur Allen, who originally built the Allen Folding Looms. Now, sometime you may want to weave a twill (diagonals in the cloth) which is a weave often used or variations of it. Anyhow, I hope it is clear for you now. This tie up will work for all the possible combinations of shafts on 4-shaft looms and you will never have to tie up the treadles again. Question 2: Your diagram shows each tieup going straight up and tying off center (by different amounts) to the shaft. I’ve tried your suggestions and adding weight to the keep the other shafts down seems to be working. Thank you. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11V5E-m66uLnOQml2j_kl6KXr0Q4pD1chGyvUGObbT7U/edit#gid=0, https://comfortclothweaving.com/calculating-warp/, Playing with Light: Now You See It; Now You Don’t. Treadle three is the one on the far left and treadle four is on the far right. Then you can walk the treadles. Thanks, Peggy. The longest cords lead to the treadles on the left; the nearest treadles and shortest cords are on the right. Ok Thank You , I did find a used one in good condition through Amazon , Through a second seller $125.00 . Inventing is certainly a wonderful idea so I don’t discourage you. If the shafts lifted are separated some on each of the treadles that could help lift them all. The weight of the treadles will also be pulling on the shafts and helping them to move up, especially if many treadles are tied to one lamm as in unbalanced multiharness weaves. The three pulleys on top of the loom keep the two ends of the long cords aligned, running together from the dog clip to the first pulley, separating at the second pulley and one of them turning downward to the closer screw eye, the other end running across the width of the loom and turning downward at the third pulley to the second screw eye on the top of the shaft. Treadle cords are first attached to the lamms in the pattern required, and then tied to the treadles. Sorry to be a dictator, but I feel strongly about it and I want you to be successful. I would like to buy a copy of you pdf book when it comes out so could you add me to your list. On a CB loom 3&4 tie-up makes 3&4 go down and 1&2 go up; So on a rising shed loom you just tie-up 1&2 which leaves 3&4 down; ... Loom with only four treadles and four tie-ups. I think the floats you don’t like are what you would normally get with a jack loom if you were treadling a 1/3 twill (one up and 3 down). From the center pulleys you are working outward from right to left, remembering that the treadles farthest away will go around the pulleys on the outside of the row of pulleys seen in the photo. You don’t have to change any thing in the draft. Thanks! Here you can see the cord going behind the spring for shaft one. The right foot would do the same to lift 2 & 4. That means they are tied to shafts. I did exactly what you suggested. In this photo Peggy is in position to guide the cord behind the spring on the path to the treadle specifically for shaft one. Hello Peggy, The treadle closest to the right side of the loom has its cord path going to the center-most pulley. Counterbalance looms like to have 1/2 the shafts up and 1/2 down for the sheds. So what I’m designing and laying out with the software is a Lift Plan rather than a Tie Up since that doesn’t have to change, right? If your chains and S hooks work, once you tie them you’ll be all set for good. I can then answer any more questions you might have easier if you have the books on hand. To hold the pedals in place while doing the tie-up, I prop them up on a rod. To do tabby put your foot between the treadles and push 1&3 with one foot and 2&4 with the other. You need two free-standing groups of shafts, so only the pattern shafts and only the tie-down shafts are tied to the treadles, besides the tabby shafts. I’m just coming down the home stretch with an antique counterbalance without lams. (click here for details) ... Treadle Tie-Up Chains 6 … and small chain with “S” hooks (which are hard to put on). I can send them priority mail so you can get them in a few days. Peggy, hola amigos! Would the tie up be the same as above ? Then shafts 3 and 4 on a new counterbalance piece? If it doesn’t, let me know and I’ll try to explain it in a different way. Could be a good thing. This shows the cords to the shafts on the left side of the loom. or Thanks for the tie-up, Peggy! The cord from the second treadle goes to the pulley on the outside right in this photo. I’m on INSTAGRAM! Fig. Thanks again, I just looked at the books. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! This way you can “walk the treadles” for efficient weaving. The other treadles can be left untied and sitting on the floor. The longest cord goes from the farthest treadle on the left to the outside pulley on the left on the photo. Or do you maybe have some old copies laying around maybe ? This shows lifting shaft 2 and 3. Peggy. I will try the walking tie-up (1,3,4,2) with a direct tie up. Also know that the treadle cords will be criss-crossed all over the place, as each treadle will be tied to multiple shafts and each shaft will be tied to multiple treadles, as your weaving draft requires. This way to tie up your treadles is a fantastic gift that Jim Ahrens taught us. This de- livers a large clean shed with the warp threads either pulled up or down de- pending on which of the shafts they are connected to. COVID-19 UPDATE. I am a new weaver (Feb 2017) currently weaving on an HD 4S 4T and quite pleased with the loom, for its (limited) capabilities. Peggy, I have opened a new sewing women’s workshop. Thank you! Notice the treadle cords on the left are the longest. I love this tie up because I can easily change my mind and never have to re-tie the treadles. so, once you have this tie up I see that most combinations are possible – as long as you can press two treadles with one foot – but then do you have to re-write the treadling patterns for your draft? Each shaft has weight bars on the top of them. For teachers, I give 40% discount–that would be $29.97. (you accomplished the same thing but with different shafts. ), I need the warping from back to front of the loom as well….how much would all of your books I saw minus the collection you’ve done (ITS BEAUTIFUL!) Is this normal? Cords from the countermarch jacks go over the side of the loom to the lower lamms below. Then 3 & 4, then 4&1. 217 Fig. Tie up for 4-shaft Looms This way to tie up your treadles is a fantastic gift that Jim Ahrens taught us. So if the draft says 1,3,4 you’ll push 1,3,4 using your feet on the appropriate treadles. 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