As I had about 2m of warp remaining, I decided to play with the sett. I was keen to see how the fabric turned out if the sett went from 16 to 14 to 12 and even to 10 epi. I also changed the ppi as I wanted to have balanced fabric.

As the 16epi fabric was already the entire width of my loom, I resleyed using only two central sections of warp ends – DDL and DDDDLLLL. I also decided to replace the central green stripe with a bright pink stripe (I added 4 ends of ~2m each).

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The main problem I had while weaving these samples was when winding the warp on. I discovered that I needed to pull the unused warp threads tight at the front so that they unwrapped from the back roller together with the warp ends being used.

There were some minor issues when attempting to beat the required ppi to achieve a balanced weave with the sett opened up to 12 and 10 epi, but I managed to get pretty close to balanced.

Once all pieces had been completed, they were measured, washed in a normal machine cycle with warm water, dried and remeasured. There was about 1cm shrinkage in both width and length.



Here are the samples resulting from this experimentation with sett – all shown after washing. You can see how the fabric opens up as the sett decreases.
Yellow stripe = 14epi/14ppi (plainweave and 2/2 twill)
Blue stripe = 12epi/12ppi (plainweave only)
Purple stripe = 10epi/10ppi (plainweave only)

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