Well, THAT didn't work. I was unable to get the warp weighted loom fully functioning yet again this time. I lost the cross while moving it back and forth. There were other problems, too.
Major Problems:
The loom must be completely assembled FIRST, in place, in order to properly warp it. The set is in the church parking lot and we don't have access to it until a week before production. The loom has to be moved, and time is lost untangling the warp and setting it back up again.
The loom is basically a very large prop and resembles a bunch of lumber and sticks when it is not assembled. Pieces were broken and some were missing this year.
Warping and setting up the loom took a huge physical toll on me this year. I would work setting up the loom for 4 to 6 hours, but then I was a basket case for the rest of the day and the next. I could not move without intense, crippling pain. I bulled ahead and did it anyway, and I became a weeping exhausted mess.
I've come to the conclusion that I can't and won't do the loom next year. I can't do it by myself and with no one else interested in learning how to do it, it seems pointless to continue. If we have a loom at Journey to Bethlehem in the future, opting for a double beam vertical/tapestry or variation of the Navajo loom set-up would be wiser.
Instead, I will spin. I want to try my hand at spinning flax again. I will wait and see if we are actually going to run the production this year and think about supplies then.
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