#i guess the point being that weaving has so many goddamn steps and the quickest and simplest of all of them is the actual weaving

[milkweedman]

i made a list of all the steps for my time sheet, and by all the steps i mean NOT all the steps, just the ones that will take at least an hour. i tried to break up the ones that would take multiple days, though. there are tons of small steps not mentioned bc i bundled them into larger tasks that i will do all at once (so, lashing the warp to the beam, for example, isn't its own step as it'll only take maybe 15 minutes to do a whole panel, if that, so it's just under step two--threading the heddles)

all this to say, there are 39 steps. and a good chance i will need to break it up further if some steps end up requiring their own section.

its. so many steps.

STEP ONE--MAKING THE WARP

warp 1: 6 hours warp 2: 4 hours warp 3: 2 hours

warp 4: warp 5: warp 6:

warp 7: warp 8: warp 9:

STEP TWO--THREADING THE HEDDLES warp 1: warp 2: warp 3:

warp 4: warp 5: warp 6:

warp 7: warp 8: warp 9:

STEP THREE--SLEYING THE REED panel 1:

panel 2:

panel 3:

STEP FOUR--TYING TO BEAMS AND WINDING ON panel 1:

panel 2:

panel 3:

STEP FIVE--WEAVING panel 1:

panel 2:

panel 3:

STEP SIX--CUTTING CLOTH OFF OF LOOM AND UNDRESSING panel 1:

panel 2:

panel 3:

STEP SEVEN--TRIMMING, BASTING, AND WASHING PANELS panel 1:

panel 2:

panel 3:

STEP EIGHT--HEMMING PANELS panel 1:

panel 2:

panel 3:

STEP NINE--SEWING PANELS TOGETHER panel 1 to panel 2:

panel 2 to panel 3:

STEP TEN--FULLING time: