I'm surprised at how quickly the card weaving got done. Maybe... six or so hours? Over two days? Even working in wool again, this was so much easier than the belt. With four threads in each card, things were so much more stable. Cards didn't catch or tangle with each other; the shed cleared more easily; I didn't have to keep a hand on the pack at all times. And it's long, too - I could easily use this as a belt, and I don't exactly have a 24" waist.
I used two sheets of brown paper bag in between wraps of warp around my lap-loom's warp-holder board; that helped my tension problems a lot, just as Mistresses Molly and Brianna promised. I was starting to get a liiiittle bit of looseness at the very end of things, but that was it.
I switched from forward turning to backward turning when the cords got too tightly wound, not by any strict count of turns. The band does try and curl around those turning points; I'm going to consult my Collingwood to see if he has anything to say about it, but I suspect the answer may be "iron it."
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