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Bronze Mesh Screen: Fine Bronze Wire Woven on a Wire Loom
The mould for wove paper is a wooden frame covered with finely woven metal wire cloth; the period moulds used brass (Wikipedia, Wove paper). This screen is woven from fine bronze wire on a wire loom, as in our woven wire cloth blueprint, to about 40 openings per inch. Mesh count and finishing are ours.
The picture: our drawing.
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Instructions
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How wire cloth is woven
How wire cloth is woven
Warping, a low shed, passing the weft and beating up.
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Warp for 40 to the inch
Warp for 40 to the inch
Warp the loom with fine bronze wire at 40 wires to the inch (25.4 mm), a little wider than the mould.
Materials for this step:
Bronze Wire1 as requiredTools needed:
Wire Cloth Loom
Ruler
Leather Work Gloves3
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Weave
Weave
Weave plain over-and-under with the same wire as weft, keeping the shed low and beating each pick to the same spacing. Count the openings over an inch with the loupe now and then.
Materials for this step:
Bronze Wire1 as requiredTools needed:
Wire Cloth Loom
Magnifying Loupe4
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Cut and bind the edges
Cut and bind the edges
Take the cloth off the loom, cut it a little larger than the mould, and twist the loose wire ends back on themselves along each edge so it does not unravel.
Tools needed:
Tin Snips
Needle-Nose PliersLeather Work GlovesMaterials
1- 1 as requiredPlaceholder
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