don't neglect your reaserch

    While I was researching which loom to get all the different terms were not that easy for me to visualize.  Shed was one of those terms and it topped my confusing list.  I knew that the shed was the space created by lowering and raising warp threads but the importance of a void wasn't clear to me. 
    The basics as I understand them now are that the larger the shed the less you need to wind your project as you weave.  Before purchasing and using a loom I had no idea how much I would appreciate a larger shed.  Initially the shed is larger and slowly shrinks as you weave so theoretically the larger the shed the faster you can weave.

    However I like my Flip because the shed stays wide enough for me to get a shuttle though even when it shrinks to almost non-existent.  I've seen quite a few complaints about the warp yarns staying together close to the heddle on some rigid heddles.  Thankfully by some accident I managed to land myself a loom without that problem.  Funny, all the research in the world and something overlooked makes me happy everytime I use the loom.