Progress on dressing the loom. RLTS#4

Got all 510 ends threaded though the heddles. Next step is to move stuff around so that M has space to sit and turn the back beam as I tell him to while I manage the warp going though the reed. He's not feeling like it, that will probably wait until tomorrow. 

This particular linen is like the most excellent stuff, and is nothing at all like the frustrating experience I have had weaving with some sub-standard linen.The linen is from https://tiedtohistory.com, who is both an excellent vender of great stuff, nut also a nice person. . If you are convinced that you hate weaving with linen, make sure that you have tried good quality stuff before you let that opinion settle in your brain. 

It's funny how just the joy of having an excellent material in my hands can make me feel joy.

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Comment from after I did the first couple of turns: I currently have a 12 dent reed that I have been using for everything, but this project might have needed me to acquire a 10 dent or smaller reed. To get the epi I wanted I needed to go 3 ends in one dent every other dent. And as lovely as this linen is, it is perfectly fine with the two ends in the dent, but the three ends are not happy. 

This is not a failure, even if I can't get this to work as I want it to, but I have plans...but this is exactly what all these endless sampler projects are for, to learn all these things that I don't know. 

I mean, it's nice to get useable things also, but learning is the primary goal.