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16.)
Your loom has been shipped with the polyester heddles in place
on the harnesses. They are bundled together in groups of one
hundred, with two bundles on each harness frame. On eight
harness looms there are two groups of fifty heddles each on the
rear four harnesses. The twist ties should now be removed and
the heddles can be spread across the harnesses. As you do this,
you will notice that all of the heddles in each bundle are con-
nected to one another at either the top or the bottom of the
heddles. These connecting loops can be cut (as shown in Figure
8) to make threading easier. Feel free to move heddles from one
harness to another. If you want an even distribution of heddles
on the eight harness loom, you can remove fifty heddles from the
front four harnesses and add these heddles to the rear four
harnesses.
Feel free to place heddles on either side of the screweyes on the
harness. The loom will actually perform at its best with some
heddles located to the outboard side of these screweyes, but no
closer to the ends than necessary.
NOTE
: Another hint to make threading easier: while you have your
heddles spread out, you can mark just above the eye of each heddle with
a colored pen. You can use four different colors of pen and mark all of
the heddles on each harness with a different color. You will find that
during threading, this will make it easier to tell which heddle belongs to
which harness, thereby reducing the chance for threading errors. If you
do choose to color code your heddles, make certain that the ink from the
felt pens you use is color fast and will not wear off onto your warp
material.
