Rigging a Safety String on a Shaft Bar or Half-Heddle Stick

When setting up a Swedish-style loom for weaving, safety strings on the wooden shaft bars can be critical for keeping Texsolv heddles where they belong. We explore a couple of uses for the strings - particularly for double-harness weavers - and demo a nice method for tying them through the holes at the ends of the bars.
Produced by Amy Blair

[@shaaraftet3797]

Excellent

[@carolburns8667]

Such clear info thank you

[@DuellingRabbits]

Happy to hear that, Carol - thank you!

[@linden8124]

I love your clear instructions! One question though: how do you use the safety string? Do you thread them into the heddles?

[@DuellingRabbits]

Good question. The best thing to do is rig the strings over the heddles. Look carefully around the 30-second mark: you can see how the heddles are trapped between the length of string and where it goes into the hole on the shaft bar. Hope that answers your question!

[@linden8124]

@@DuellingRabbitsgotcha, thank you for your reply❤