A lesson in warping…if your “stakes” are close together as these tables legs are, you acn simply hold your warp end against the stake (don’t tie a loop around the stake) and wind your figure-of-eight. When you are done with that naroow stripe of color, tie the end to your start end and then start you next color the same way. The advantages I can see of this…if one color has wonky tension, you can untie the knot and adjust without affecting the rest of the warp. If you warp a clor that you decide later you can’t live with, you can chop it out again without affecting the rest of the warp as it has been wound independently. Mind you we were only warping narrow bands here of about 20 ends in five stripes ofthree colors
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