![]() Next, multiply your adjusted width at reed by this percentage (.18) to find out how many inches your scarf will shrink: That means the finished width is 82% the size of the width at reed - a shrinkage rate of 18%. First divide the finished width of the original scarf by the width at reed of the original scarf: You can also calculate the shrinkage if you’d like to know approximately how wide your finished scarf will be. 12 EPI x 9” (new width at reed) = 108 ends.To figure out how many ends you need, simply multiple the ends-per-inch by your loom’s width weaving width: The same math applies as when adjusting to make your pattern wider - first step, collect your information: Let’s say you'd like to weave the Textured Cotton Scarf, which has a width at reed of 14”, but you need to make it narrower to fit your loom. As you can see on my drawing below, I write out each block and how many ends and inches it represents,Īnd then I’ll add up all those numbers to figure out how many ends and inches the new project will be - 30.8” or 468 ends, pretty much exactly the amount I calculated earlier to get a finished size of 28”. To adjust this pattern to fit my new width, I can add two squares (104 ends) and two spacers (48) to the pattern for a total of 152 ends, or 10.1”. Added together, each square/spacer combo equals 5”. The original rug has 4 squares separated by 3 spacers, with 2 borders. Each of those sections is made up of a certain number of ends, so the next thing I’ll do is figure out how many inches each section represents: ![]() The Squarish Rug is woven in plain weave, so there’s not anything special I need to do to adjust the threading, but by examining the pattern, I can see that it’s made up of three different sections: a border, a square, and a space between Now we have rough idea of how many ends we’ll need to get a finished width of 28” and we can move on to the next step - adjusting the pattern.
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