1<\/strong>. The yarn needs to be as smooth as possible. I prefer longdraw, but yarn gets smoother with a drafting method that eliminates twist in the drafting zone.
That is well possible with a short forward draw, but as I use a spindle, there is only one hand available for drafting.
To use a distaff would free the fiber holding hand. That hand can then focus on drafting. But my pinching power is gone. Therefore I cannot pinch-fiddle fibers out of a distaff to form yarn.
But, when I turn my hand around, and hold the fiber supply with my thumb and index finger, I can draft by pushing with middle-and ringfinger, and use the little finger to press-smoothen the fibers.
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n2<\/strong>. A yarn with more twist, is better abrasion resistant. So I upped the twist in the singles a bit, and also put more ply twist in. Below is a picture of the above yarn, dry, and wound in a ball, ready for the weaving of Band 4 out of Tablet Woven Treasures. This is a post about weaving Finnish Iron Age bands with spindle spun weaving yarn. I weave the bands listed in the book ‘Tablet Woven Treasures, Archaeological Bands from the Finnish Iron Age’ by Karisto & Pasanen (2021), one by one in the order of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have looked for ways to improve my tablet weaving yarn. 1. The yarn needs to be as smooth as possible. I prefer longdraw, but yarn gets smoother with a drafting method that eliminates twist in the drafting zone. That is well possible with a short forward draw, but as I use a spindle, there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iron-age-bands","category-spindle-spinning","tag-iron-age-bands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meava.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meava.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meava.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meava.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meava.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/meava.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/meava.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meava.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meava.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meava.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meava.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
3<\/strong>. For tablet-weaving, it works best if the plied yarn is not very twisty. Wet finishing can play a role in setting the twist.
For the tablet weaving yarn, I changed the way I wet finish the yarn. I make a firm skein, and slowly heat the yarn to almost boiling point and let it cool slowly down. With other yarn I would wash rather agressively, but for this yarn I just let it alone in the pot on the stove. When the pot has cooled down I just push the water out of the skein with a towel. When the yarn is dry, it is rather high twist but straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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