Comments on: My Rocking Chair http://weaversew.com/wordblog/2009/11/19/my-rocking-chair/ The World from a Weaver's point of view! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:36:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: daryl http://weaversew.com/wordblog/2009/11/19/my-rocking-chair/comment-page-1/#comment-1887 daryl Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:41:20 +0000 http://weaversew.com/wordblog/?p=2051#comment-1887 The AVL Warping Wheel is great for winding warps that are about 4 1/2" wide. I would have to wind multiple sections 4 1/2" wide and keep them together for painting. Since my goal is yardage, and yardage that runs about 30-36" wide, each warp chain runs about 250-400 ends wide, and it is easier to do that on a warping mill with a set of cross pegs, and that can be tied loosely at 2 yard intervals for keeping the warps together when they are unchained for painting. You can use the AVL, but it seems to me much easier to use a mill. I have two. I can fill up the mill with a 10 yard warp, emptying the cone onto the mill in one shot (unless it is a really big cone). I can also wind two yard skeins easily on it, slip them off and have skeins for dyeing as well. It isn't as efficient for me to make a cross in my AVL, it was designed for sectional warping, and it is more cumbersome to stop chaining off and run a tie every couple of yards. Does that make sense? I could have this all wrong, feel free to tell my why the AVL is better for this task... The AVL Warping Wheel is great for winding warps that are about 4 1/2″ wide. I would have to wind multiple sections 4 1/2″ wide and keep them together for painting. Since my goal is yardage, and yardage that runs about 30-36″ wide, each warp chain runs about 250-400 ends wide, and it is easier to do that on a warping mill with a set of cross pegs, and that can be tied loosely at 2 yard intervals for keeping the warps together when they are unchained for painting. You can use the AVL, but it seems to me much easier to use a mill. I have two. I can fill up the mill with a 10 yard warp, emptying the cone onto the mill in one shot (unless it is a really big cone). I can also wind two yard skeins easily on it, slip them off and have skeins for dyeing as well. It isn’t as efficient for me to make a cross in my AVL, it was designed for sectional warping, and it is more cumbersome to stop chaining off and run a tie every couple of yards. Does that make sense? I could have this all wrong, feel free to tell my why the AVL is better for this task…

]]> By: Diane Roeder http://weaversew.com/wordblog/2009/11/19/my-rocking-chair/comment-page-1/#comment-1886 Diane Roeder Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:14:52 +0000 http://weaversew.com/wordblog/?p=2051#comment-1886 Hi Daryl, Just wondering why you wouldn't use your AVL Warping Wheel for winding warps for painting. Diane Hi Daryl,

Just wondering why you wouldn’t use your AVL Warping Wheel for winding warps for painting.

Diane

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