A different way to use your Mirrix

Okay, so I know Mirrix has introduced a new and easy way to warp up by wrapping the warp around your entire loom as opposed to making a u-turn using a warping bar, but I wanted to share a similar method that I dreamt up. I’m sure some of you Mirrix users have thought of this, too. My thinking is that many people will eventually move to warping up the original Mirrix way, but that using one of the alternatives is less intimidating for people who are new weavers.

The gist of my method is tying your warp yarn to the bottom beam of the loom, wrapping your yarn around your entire loom as many times as desired across, and then to finish tie it to the bottom beam again. It’s essentially the same way I instruct you to do on a pipe loom, here. In this method, in lieu of being able to make one long weaving by advancing it (as with the original Mirrix warp up method), you plan on doing two small weavings – one weaving on the front warps and another on the back. So, when you’re done your first weaving you simply loosen your tension, remove your spring and move your heddles to the other side of the loom, as well as change the direction your loom feet are pointing. Voila – ready to start your second weaving!

Here’s where I tie my warp before I wrap the yarn around the loom over and over before tying off on the bottom beam again…

And watch this video to see me moving the heddles over the loom…

 Janna Maria Vallee

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