Well, as I suspected my little bundles have shifted up to 1/2" away from their original straight line. No big deal, this just means that I can't rely on the tension coming off the warping board when I'm marking out a design to bind on the warp. I'm not really sure how to lay out my warp to bind it: I'm going to make it up as I go, I suppose. My original thought was to lay the warp out under tension, but I don't trust myself to create even tension. So I am going to try laying out the warp under very little tension, and we will just see what happens. I think the design I am going for will be interesting even if it shifts a lot.
The tail ends of each 1" wide, 15 yard-long bundle. I am going to tie all these together before the warp is dyed. Hopefully this will be my marker to realign the warp once I tie it onto the loom.
Starting my binding pattern, binding different quantities of thread. The smallest bundles are 1", and the largest covers 7". And don't forget that spaced throughout the warp are those little measuring bundles around every 24 threads that I tied on the warping board. I want to see how the line quality is effected by the different quantity of thread in the bundles.
The warp is fully bound and I have removed the boards and nails that were keeping everything under light tension. The binding was done with plastic wrap and cotton thread, and not overly tight. I'm wondering how much dye will get under the bound areas, and also if any unbound areas will end up resisting as well.
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