I’ve finished threading the heddles. I started on 24 February and finished today (5 March)

When I began threading, I untied and removed the lease sticks so that I could pull the warp threads further through the castle. I untied the beater and pushed it back against the castle and turned the loom around so that I could thread the heddles from the back of the loom.

Then I calculated the number of heddles required on each shaft and realised that I would need 100 /shaft (400 threads, 4 shafts, basic 1,2,3,4 threading pattern). This meant adding 30 heddles to each of shafts 1 & 2 and 60 heddles to each of shafts 3 & 4.
I pulled out the extra heddles from the box and discovered that they were in 4 bundles – 2 large and 2 small. When I removed these from the loom for the last project, I had tied the legs of the heddles in bundles. All I had to do was remove the end bars from the shafts and thread the metal bars of the shafts through the heddle legs and put the shafts back together. You can see what I mean in the diagram below where Brown is the bundle of heddles, Red is the threads tying the heddle legs together, Black is the metal bars of the shaft. I don’t know how many heddles there were per shaft, but there are plenty!

I threaded the heddles over 4 sessions. At the end of the final session, I spread them across the shafts.

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