
I have been craving weaving yards and yards of narrow width, fine cloth, on just a simple little table loom like this, my new Brooklyn four-shaft loom. Using the finest weight cotton and linen threads that I can find, higher epi (ends per inch) should not be so overwhelming with only 16 inches weaving width, shoulder width, therefore it is very ergonomic and a great way to weave longer pieces. I like to stand while I weave, so I have set up the Brooklyn on my loft table which is also my desk, sharing space with everything else, and I can take breaks often to weave a few inches here and there. Just having it there with a long warp waiting, is so inviting. I started weaving my first project, with a hybrid direct warp method, using only the number of heddles for 20epi that the loom comes with, and next time I will add heddles and weave 40 epi. Even though the inexpensive Brooklyn comes unfinished, I waxed all of the pieces before assembling, and I don’t even mind that the sides are plywood, I wanted a little loom just like this one on which to learn to weave ultra fine — at my own pace.















Just beautiful! Picture 14 is absolute perfection. I had to sit there and just look at how clean you had every strand of cotton. After all of the tedious work of warping, it must have felt so good to have it all tidied up. ….. The weaving is looking gorgeous!
Aw, thank you so much for your cheering me along. I will give all the details coming up. This piece is just a doubled warp couplets, so not really “so fine” but it will be a sample to send off to Vancouver, but after this I plan on learning to work 40epi sett, and that will be the cloth weight I have been craving.
This weaving on the Brooklyn is with doubled warps, and is woven at 20 epi.