Article Info

Article Info

Article Title
Say Goodbye to Sleying Slip-ups 
Author
Jamie Hurlburt
Issue date
Autumn 2025
Issue number
2
Description

Sleying errors are some of the most demoralizing things that can go wrong while dressing a loom. As you’re weaving your header, finally getting ready to start your project after all the work of warping, beaming, and threading, you notice ends sleyed in the wrong order, or the wrong number in a dent. Now instead of throwing a shuttle, you have to stop, sigh deeply, and dig your sley hook back out. Luckily, sleying errors are often easy to fix. Here’s how to move past them to the weaving part of weaving as painlessly as possible. This article covers identifying and fixing sleying order errors denting errors, and missed threads.

Article topic list
sleying, threading, fixing errors