Warping Your Loom & Tying On New Warps (Peggy Osterkamp's New Guide To Weaving) [Ring-bound]

Peggy Osterkamp (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1997

This book guides you through every step of setting up your loom--from beaming the warp, threading the heddles, and weaving the heading.

Also included are extensive chapters on sectional beaming, adjusting looms (and how various looms work), tying on new warps, knots and much more.

Having this book at your loom is like having a patient, knowledgeable teacher at your side.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"It is wonderful that these books put today's weavers in touch with well-tried European methods..." -- Peter Collingwood

"This book will answer all your questions about warping--even a few you didn't know to ask." -- Sharon Alderman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Peggy Osterkamp has been weaving since 1970 and apprenticed with Jim Ahrens, designer of the first AVL looms, in a production studio. she is a nationally recognized weaving instructor and author and has introduced hundreds of students to weaving theory and practice. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Ring-bound: 189 pages
• Publisher: Lease Sticks Press; 2 edition (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096377932X
• ISBN-13: 978-0963779328
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,187,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A better way to warp, January 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Warping Your Loom & Tying On New Warps (Peggy Osterkamp's New Guide To Weaving) (Ring-bound)

Like most weavers, I learned to wind a warp and then make a traditional "warp chain", which can tangle. This book shows how to create a compact, tangle-free warp. The instructions are very clear and well illustrated, and the wire binding allows the book to lie open while you're working -- an important feature.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent manual for the intermediate to advanced weaver, June 15, 2004

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TamarDC "tamardc" (Newton, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Warping Your Loom & Tying On New Warps (Peggy Osterkamp's New Guide to Weaving, Number 2) (Spiral-bound)

The is the second part of Peggy Osterkamp's two book series on warping the loom back to front. The book goes from the wound warp to starting to weave. Every step of the process is described in a clear and effective way. There are also copious and excellent illustrations. Osterkamp's system relies heavily on Swedish warping methods.

This is not, in my opinion, a book for beginners. I would send beginning weavers to Deb Chandler's "Learning to Weave." Peggy Osterkamp's books are intended for the intermediate to advanced weaver, who is seeking to learn how to warp back to front or wishes to improve on techniques already learned. I think this book is a classic and should be in the library of every serious weaver.

I found two faults with this book. First, Osterkamp's attempt to cover every possible eventuality that one might encounter when warping back to front leads her to copious cross references. The reader is sent to other pages in the book frequently and this is confusing and rather irritating. I am not sure how this could have been avoided, but it's irritating.

Second, this is a singularly humorless book. I refuse to accept that technical manuals (for this is what this book is) must be grim and flat. The style of writing here is so serious that one might forget how much fun weaving can be. If you read the aforementioned book by Deb Chandler, you'll see what I mean. It's full of humanity and humor. Where Chandler is a teacher in her tone, Osterkamp is a documenter. This is a pity, all the more so since most readers are bound to be part time practitioners for whom weaving is a labor of love.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An essential book for any weaver, February 22, 2011

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Jacquelyn L. Brewer (Champaign, IL United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Warping Your Loom & Tying On New Warps (Ring-bound)

Ten years ago the teacher of my introduction to weaving class recommended this book, but it seemed like too much to spend on a book that only covers warping. Now after years of irregular warp tension and other problems I have finally invested in it. It is full of revelations about how I could have prevented those errors and gives me the confidence to try more difficult yarns such as linen and handspun for warps. On the other hand it was a good thing to have some weaving experience before reading a whole book about warping - there are so many steps that I might never have gotten started if I had read this first. Now I can pick and choose the techniques that will improve the warping methods I have been using all these years.

The techniques described are for jack looms with four or more shafts. The book doesn't cover warping rigid heddle or coutermarch looms.