So much for the test warp of cochineal-dyed organzine. I got it threaded, I got it sleyed, and then I started to weave it. Each shed popped several threads right before my eyes. Turned out that the warp was more tangled than I had thought, at the back. Too many invisible threads I couldn't see. I gave up after more than half the threads popped on the third shed. I trace the breakage to tangling at the back, but there may have been other factors too. I *have* woven with this same organzine before, and got nary a broken warp thread. Everything about this warp either challenged me or just failed on me. Obviously each failure has a cause, but something about it just exhausted me, and so I've removed the warp from the loom without trying to spend too much troubleshooting time. I have projects to weave! I *think* that the organzine just had too many tension problems - plus the tangling - and that winding the warp without a cross was just silly.
Next will be the green scarf for Noemi. And I do have enough wool for a big wool blanket (amusing myself at the prospect of weaving 12 epi for the blanket) so that might be a satisfying thing to do while I dye the ranges of green silks for Noemi's scarf.
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