New website, new goals, and a sectional warping calculator

I have migrated to Squarespace. As of right now, that's still a work in progress. The old blog posts have to get fixed.

But! I have created a tool to aid in sectional warp division.

Check it out: the tool.

Of course, all the math involved is basic arithmetic. But a calculator makes the process simpler.

Here's the problem I'm solving for:

• You want to wind a sectional warp
• Your pattern/draft only specifies EPI and total warp ends, perhaps a color sequence as well
• You need to determine how many sections to use, how many ends per section, and what order to wind what colors in

This calculator takes into account a minimum section width (in inches), and attempts to evenly distribute extra threads across the warp.

For example, if we have a 220 end warp, with a color sequence of A 24, B 10, and C10, repeated five times, and an EPI of 16, and a section width of 2 inches, we can state:

Project EPI: 16 Total warp ends: 220 Project width in reed: 13.750 inches Project section width: 2 inches Minimum ends per section: 32 inches

And our sections would look like this:

Section 1 (37 ends):
A: 24
B: 10
C: 3

Section 2 (37 ends):
C: 7
A: 24
B: 6

Section 3 (36 ends):
B: 4
C: 10
A: 22

Section 4 (36 ends):
A: 2
B: 10
C: 10
A: 14

Section 5 (37 ends):
A: 10
B: 10
C: 10
A: 7

Section 6 (37 ends):
A: 17
B: 10
C: 10

There's currently very little error handling or helpful messages. If you put "0" in any of the fields, I am pretty sure the calculator will break.