Spring Loom Shed is small

1. Check if you have tied  up the treadles properly: when shafts 1-3-5-7 go up, the treadle screws 1-3-5-7 must be connected to the lower lam with the short cords. The treadle screws 2-4-6-8 are then connected to the upper lams with the long cords. Always make sure that you use the cords of the original length and that you use the first 'real' hole after the cut loop at both the loop and the treadle connection.
2. When the cords are attached to the lams, the bottoms of the cords should hang at the same height.
   • • see article Setting up warp 9: attaching pedals
     • see article Spring 2 - relevant measurements and information
     • see article Spring 1 - relevant measurements and information
3. Check that everything moves smoothly. Sometimes there are cords or heddles that impede the movement of a particular shaft. Check that heddles have not fallen off the end of a shaft.  Check that the cords on the side of the shafts are properly seated in the shaft holders.
4. Check your reed height. Go to the bottom of the beater assembly – on the right and left sides, there is a pivot point – a screw in hinge. You need to screw these hinges in deeper (to lower) so that the warp is resting roughly in the middle of the reed, before you depress a treadle. When you depress a treadle, the bottom shed should just touch the shuttle race. If the bottom shed pushes down on the shuttle race, adjust further. If the beater is sitting too high, you will see a bend in your warp threads immediately behind the beater as the threads are being stretched. This bend is reducing your shed.
5. Put your blocking pin in through the texsolv loop marked in black.    Are all your harnesses and lamms level and at the same heights?   If not you can adjust that by turning the white plastic knurled nut. Check the heights in the description that you will find in the articles below.
   
   • • see article Spring 2 - relevant measurements and information
     • see article Spring 1 - relevant measurements and information