Posted by sharon on Sunday, 19 October 2008, at 11:19 p.m.:
In Reply to: tying string heddle posted by sarah on Sunday, 19 October 2008, at 5:04 p.m.:
I don't know of anywhere that you can print out directions. Alice Griswold addresses it in her Weaving Solutions book. I take a metal heddle and lay it out on a piece of foam core. then I put t pins in at the top and the bottom of the eye of the heddle. Then I put in a t pin at the top and the bottom in the inner part of the heddle bar hole. Then I lay out carpet warp (two strings) about 3 inches longer than the heddle is long. Then tie knots under the top pin on top of the upper pin for the eye of the heddle and under the lower pin of they heddle eye then on the top of the lower pin. Then your heddle is ready to take to the loom and tie over the top and bottom heddle rods. I generally stick a heddle threading hook in the eye of a metal heddle next to the repair to help keep the eye of the heddle in place. You can also use the smallest silver tone safety pins to go around the heddle bars and use the hole in the bottom to tie your carpet warp through. I hope this is not too confusing. I will keep looking in my references and see if I have a picture of it anywhere that you might have access to it.
Good luck,
Sharon