The previous owner of this loom kindly contacted me to address the challenge of the tilting harness. It turns out to be not the springs, thank goodness, but rather the spread of the heddles. After friend Tien and I finished putting on the remaining harnesses yesterday, I added more heddles on the other side of the hooks, beyond what will be the weaving area, to the end of the the harness bars, and the whole tension of the system seemed to fall into place. Gratitude and delight!!
Tien figured out the other things that I was trying to figure out, such as how the cloth storage beam works, and how to properly suspend the weighted tension bars for the two warp beams.
The photograph of the harness here, btw, does not show the additional heddles on yet.
Here's a beautiful shot of harmony and order under light tension. There's a beautiful tension to it, like when a bowstring is put onto a bow.
I'm off to Home Depot this morning to get some aircraft cable or wire rope to redo the treadle cables, one of which had metal fatigue at a critical point. After that I should be able to operate the treadles.
I am enjoying the tuning process!
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