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I wove for quite a while yesterday evening while Carlos was at rehearsal.


I got further than I thought I would; almost done with the next kitchen towel!


Anticipating August 15 as the day when weaver pal Tien comes up to help me activate the old Compu-dobby.  I love love love using the mechanical dobby, and I enjoy all its creaks and clicks and thunks, but getting more dobby bars is an absurdly expensive project, and I would not be able to afford too many more, and the system for connecting the wooden dobby bars is quite different from what it used to be, and I'd have to stop using the old dobby bars in order for the new ones to be mounted.  It all adds up to a pain in the neck for a loom that has its own Compu-dobby already.  After having seen online photographs of the amazing things people can make using advancing twill liftplans, etc., I'm pretty confident that with these 16 harnesses I'll be able to make some pretty nice stuff.  Hopefully big curvy twills!


I anticipate the Compu-dobby to be louder than the mechanical ones, because IIRC the solenoids really make a loud sound when the pins are activated with each new shed.  We'll see.  On the other hand, there will be no creak as the dobby wheel rotates, nor will the pins strike the strike plates in the same way (directly perpendicular, rather than rotating by on a cog-wheel).  So the sound will be somewhat different.  I'm excited!