How to Put a Pre-Wound Warp on a Rigid Heddle Loom for Weaving - Buy a Warp or Wind Your Own!

I was asked quite awhile ago how to put a pre-purchased hand dyed warp on a loom, and I've thought about it several times about how it would be best to do. This worked so slick, I will DEFINITELY be doing it again, particularly for dishtowels. It was great! I hope this helps someone have an easier time warping if maybe they don't have the space for a long warp, or physically have a hard time direct warping, or if maybe they just want to buy a handdyed warp and don't want to do the dyeing.
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[@hollynoscar3534]

dang, i too have been searching for how to do this and found nothing until your video came up on my feed today!!!!! thank you for showing us the process.

[@carrietreder8474]

There’s something about fancy warping that my brain can’t wrap around, but I always watch because it’s so nice to hang out with you. ❤

[@pamelamatt1441]

I love looking at all of your yarn and fiber in the background 😀

[@AmyMcScience]

"I did not mean to dress to match my warp, but here we are" I almost spit out my coffee 😂

[@MsGg43]

The scarves are beautiful and you made warping a loom look so easy!

[@rockinrobin1975]

Beautiful scarves! Thanks for showing us how you did the warp. Your weavings are always so gorgeous!

[@SBVancouver]

You do a great job explaining how to indirect warp. I struggle for space without someone trying to walk into my warp without looking.🤦🏻‍♀️And you’ve given me ideas to use up my one off test spins

[@marthahoneycutt3692]

This is exactly what I've been wanting to learn. Thank you Trish

[@scriptgoddess]

ooo. the tip on tying to prevent unchaining! thank you!!

[@Lilfare]

I love those colors. I definitely lean towards the Evil Unicorn and the last one but all of them are so pretty. The scarves look so comfy.

[@juneoeserserio2314]

Great to see you enjoying your loom!!!

[@Moonchildcreates]

Not me body doubling and spinning fiber while you talk me into a whole other hobby 😂😂😂

[@FiberLoveDiary]

Aww, so happy to keep you company while you spin. I mean I did use up three hanks of handspun in 2 days this way 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@candygrubisic]

All 3 turned out really pretty. I like the short fringe. I've been trying to find ways to use my hand-spun too...and then of course...we all keep making more LOL.

[@peterivkovich2314]

from Gerry- I have never done anything but a direct warp. This didn't seem too complicated. Thanks for sharing. Be blessed.

[@KathleenLockhart-ry7sd]

Yes, please do a video on using a warping mill.

[@hawthorngrove3629]

The scarves are fabulous and thanks for the tutorial

[@holly3442]

I love your weaving videos. I have a Fanny at home and I have had the same warp on it since last April. It took me days to warp it and I had been given wrong information so I need to redo it and I am scared of the headache and that all my work was for nothing 😢 but your videos inspire me, so much so that I had bought this loom to begin with. As always, thank you Trish!

[@jennifernicole816]

I’m just learning to weave! So much fun!

[@abirhussein9781]

It was me Trish 😊 I was weaving towels and struggled with the warp.

[@pennyp.3516]

thank you thank you thank you! your video and method has helped me immensely in avoiding crossed threads while indirect warping for double heddles :) I had seen lease sticks in action on floor loom videos, and thought what if? but never got further - thank you for the initiative to try it and share it!

[@jamiethrogmorton2540]

Another pair of hands would really help!! Wow did you make that look easy. It’s daunting to me.

[@MamamanaDoDo]

"I did not mean to dress to match my warp but here we are." 🤣

[@stephanieking1645]

Is is such a helpful video, thank you Trish! Love the colors of all three scarfs, they are beautiful!

[@tracyirwin9578]

Trish, I literally just attempted my first pre-wound warp the weekend before this video came out 😂 I found The Woolery had a great instruction video. I took a break from fiber art for a spell so catching up on your videos and love your craft room and how giant your stash is ❤

[@jenniferkelly5342]

I just filled my table up pulling stuff out of my craft cupboards!!!😂

[@LeighaNBRT]

I'm definitely not in a stage of life for weaving, but someday I will be!

[@calliecothran7808]

Thank you for posting this! I haven't weaved as much as I would like to because I hate direct warping. So, I've been wanting to try this.

[@tracybird4547]

I’m really glad that you’re doing okay. Sending love your way❤

[@avrilp317]

Absolutely love all of the scarves, they are so beautiful. Thanks for showing how a pre-made warp can be put onto a RHL. I’m sure that this will come in useful. Love your videos and your enthusiasm 😊

[@WoWCathy98]

Thank you for this video Trish, I told my husband I need him to make me a warping mill so I can try making a pre-wound warp for my knitters loom ☺I too have hand spun yarn calling me to make it into fabric 🥰

[@angief.9612]

I've been too scared to learn how to weave, you make it look way more approachable and those scarves are so inspiringly pretty! Wow!

[@xkwisitlady]

Really beautiful scarves! I need to start looking for neutral yarns to add to my stash because I love this idea to use up all the colorful handspun I've been making.

[@wycohibito]

Beautiful! In my dream house, I have room for a loom and all that.

[@teacat55]

This is a GREAT Project and demo…thank you for taking time to do this so clearly. When it comes to supporting the floating lease sticks through the warping process, I have taken long skinny ‘bungee’ cords and those spring tension plastic things we get on hoodies and run them like you did through the reed. I had to do this figuring it out with the Saori loom. You have such a way of making these things look easy. And fun. Is that a 3D swift!? Such stunning scarves…. Most excellent.

[@jackiewest1449]

Thank you so much! Absolutely unbelievably helpful. I've needed this for quite a while ❤

[@tinalamberts4947]

Thank you for this!!! I do not have the space to do a direct warp. I just could not translate instructions for using this type of prepared warp on a floor loom to how I would do it on my simple Northfield rigid heddle table loom. Now I see!!!! I will try it tomorrow!

[@kenisonh]

Love this Thank you. Stay warm and safe.

[@avalontampsett5023]

Thank you for showing me. I have seen some of warp threads on a website over here in the uk. Now I know how it works.

[@LDSVenus]

Beautiful scarves, I wouldn’t have the patience for setting the weave up, I would enjoy the shuttle work ;p

[@kimlyne9700]

When I did indirect I cut the loops as threaded the holes and slots at the beginning and tied on to the warping beam rod. Your way is easier! 🤣

[@scriptgoddess]

22:00. one of the benefits of lees sticks is that they provide some extra tensioning that I appreciate as a single warper. I like your system. Funny how my brain works a bit differently, and I can see how I'd adjust your system to suit. Gonna have to try it out!! Thanks!

[@michelleatwell8580]

I just got a loom for Christmas and haven’t tried it yet. Very excited to try some new techniques!

[@RoxanneRichardson]

"That was so easy!" hahahahaha ;-)

[@marinamartinez6886]

Thanks for the great tutorial. It's been a while since you've shown us some weaving on the Rigid Heddle. Maybe John can invent a brake mechanism for the Swift, seems awkward to chain the warp while it's moving. 😊👍👍👍

[@natalielambert703]

I don’t weave but Trish makes everything look easy-

[@deirdrez9]

The scarves are gorgeous ❤ the set up for weaving looks so complicated but the finished items are beautiful 😍

[@ritaorr766]

Your shirt is darker than the warp. I always get a smile when your humor kicks in. Beautiful job!❤

[@marthahoneycutt3692]

Thank you trish. Actually I just bought a warping board and I am totally a newbie on this so I would like to see you do a warp on the warping board and the hell at the same I don't know if I said this right but that's what I'm wanting thank you trish. The scarves are beautiful!

[@netanyadavis2841]

I think I need a loom now .

[@territhompsonarts]

I'm interested in seeing a demonstration about using the warping mill. It looks a lot more comfortable to use than the warping board. I have had back problems.

[@QuzieSuzieQ]

Thanks for this video! I really need to get back to using my loom again. I think I was too ambitious with my first warp and I need to just get back to it.

[@CarrieMtn]

This was a lot of fun. Thanks

[@CheapEngineerCrafts]

Gorgeous!

[@sylvanwoods5271]

So gorgeous! ❤

[@keturahspencer]

I think the woolery probably has the best video on putting a pre-made warp on a rigid heddle loom.

[@FiberLoveDiary]

They have some great videos. I wonder why I couldn't find it 🤔

[@elysianfibres1642]

Hi Trish, I love those scarfs! I was wondering if you could do a video on how to use a warping mill. I bought one but I've never used it because I don't know how! Thanks! I love your videos :)

[@spunknit7851]

You make it look easier than I thought it would be. You're giving me the courage to try this myself!

[@lisaml7411]

Thanks for videoing this!

[@jackiemcdonald736]

I have got to try this!

[@user-ww5ru8pm9z]

Great information.

[@beckyshook3526]

I don't have a rigid heddle loom but have a floor loom this isn't my idea but I use it you get those cheap curtain rod that bends on each end then I hook one end over the front and other end over the back one for each side I made sure to get the longest it adjusts then I put the lease sticks over this and it is supported while I thread the Reed.

[@johnsterner221]

Love your video!

[@teresac.m.355]

You do such a great job at explaining each step so clearly.

[@kellywest2820]

They look great! I love my table loom. Ashford 8 shaft, 32”-34”? (I forget). Wish I had a floor loom, just not enough space.

[@mary-annelennon7719]

The woolery has a KZbin video on how to do this also

[@tracybarger7822]

Watching you warp a loom still makes my head spin. 😵‍💫 But I love the fabric you have made 😍

[@QueenAnneKnitsandSews]

I used to have a 4-harness jack loom. My dad built it in solid maple. It was beautiful. I wove on it a couple of times and it stressed me out so much that I never did it again. As I am watching you I assumed I would want to try again, but no. I'm happy for you and others that love to weave. It fills me with so much anxiety just thinking about messing up the warp, messing up my pattern, breaking threads, etc. I can live vicariously through you!

[@QueenAnneKnitsandSews]

Okay, so maybe you've inspired me to want to weave scarves from my handspun. 🤗

[@GirlScoutLoriC]

I love this video! It is so helpful to see this method as I don’t have a good space to direct warp right now, but I can set up warping pegs along the sides of my dining room table for a makeshift warping board. Question…can you add the details of your weft yarn to the video description (if you still it, the yarn weight and yards in your skeins?)

[@lynebriere2709]

Thanking you so much....I tried yesterday and it is a real mess. I lost control of the crosses and now I really don't know what to do. I think I will take everything off the loom and restart again doing same thing as you. Hoping for the best!

[@lynebriere2709]

Well, I took everything off the loom and restart as you did, and it seems to work pretty Well. I'll begin weaving my future kitchen curtains....hoping that the tension will be ok since I was alone to roll on the back beem. Thanking you for sharing how to work!

[@jackiebrown7859]

If I were to attempt this wind something would slip, all the yarn would fall to the floor, and I would be lying on top of my giant yarn pile sobbing in the floor contemplating why I exist🤣

[@FiberLoveDiary]

What?? It was easy really! Especially if you don't have to wind the warp yourself.

[@jackiebrown7859]

It does look really simple, but when it looks that easy, im the gal to cause a disaster😂

[@kimberlytheodore5690]

😳 amazing! ❤❤❤love

[@beckyshook3526]

I should say this rod goes on outside the Reed

[@lisaml7411]

Warping is what holds me back from weaving. I know that once I get it done the weaving will go so fast…

[@sherylm2442]

I loved your tutorial and the scarves were very pretty in the handspun. I am curious though as to why you decided to tie this warp on to your apron rod when in the past I always see you lash them on. Was there something about the wool that dictated that, or it was just what you were feeling that day? Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us.

[@hollaceannstruve9805]

What yarn did you use for your warp? What size/dent heddle? Thanks for the beautiful inspiration ❤

[@erikagreenwell9892]

i works like a whole video on this to learn. what do you think of building a warp winding with with pegs on a wall? i have a shed with huge walls...

[@katlynkoester]

I have a warp that a friend gave me, but other than knowing it is wool, I have no information about it.

[@jennysterner696]

Love your video!