Mechanical Mysteries, and Light, and Color.

I untangled the Situation with the cloth storage beam this morning - fixed by adding another weight to approximate the weight of the original weight that broke; and by removing the roller of the cloth storage beam, removing the roller pulley, re-winding the tangled nylon cord, and using the stop pin to advantage for this step to prevent out of control rolling.  It worked.  I tied on the remainder of the warp, and started to weave.

For some reason the rocker arm on the dobby sticks on two or three of the regular sheds of the 20-bar sequence I've got on there.  I think that part of it might be due to needing lubrication (paraffin on the axles, etc) but adjusted the depth of the dobby wheel minutely to avoid dropping harnesses.  I see it might be good to make sure that all of the dobby pegs I put on there are all the correct height (some of them are a good 1mm shorter, but most the same height).

I wove a few inches, manually helping the stuck rocker bar on some of the sheds, but othe than that, the loom has been weaving wonderfully.  

I'm including two photos I took after weaving - they're both the same green weft, but the first photograph was taken without ambient light but with the flash, while the second was taken with the flash turned off but with the ambient lights turned on.  I took this in order to show the difference between the two and to show how different the hues are, especially of the green!