I want to try out my new persimmon flower sashiko-ori draft before weaving yardage for clothing. A table runner in 8/2 cotton will do. 378 ends of blue and 62 end of white.

I have made separate warp chains for the blue and white warp ends. I am sleying and threading the blue ends first at 20 epi, but positioning the heddles for the white ends as I go. Next I will sley the white ends through every third dent and thread through the already placed heddles. ETA: This was a mistake. Threading through the correct dent and between the correct heddles was very difficult. In the end there were two crossed threads. Next time I will wind all of the warp ends in the correct order and not cut corners.

If I had a 2nd warp beam I would use it for the white ends. But I don’t, so I will have to monitor the white ends and add weight to them if they grow slack. ETA: A surprisingly large amount of weight is required to keep tension. Also, I had to disable my new friction brake and just use the warp ratchet due to the weighted warp threads.

July 6: Overall, I am very happy with how this turned out. I only have two complaints: the pattern on the back looks great but the way the pattern weft is carried up the side looks awful, and it is quite a bit shorter than I planned. I can change the tie-up so that the pattern weft goes all the way to the edge and is carried up there. The length issue is because I had to stop weaving before the knots even got to the back beam, so the loom waste was more than 24” even though I laced onto the cloth bar. If I had a 2nd warp beam this would not have happened.

Also, it didn’t weave square. After wet finishing I got 24epi and 19ppi.

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