Article Info
- Article Title
- Say Goodbye to Sleying Slip-ups
- Issue date
- Autumn 2025
- Issue number
- 2
- Issue topic
- Warp
- 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