Where should the Raddle go?

someone asked me:

I put my Raddle on the front. Does that mean I warp front to back?

Answer: No. Putting the raddle on the front of the loom vs. back of the loom makes no difference in beaming the warp, especially when warpig alone.

 Warping front to back means that the warp threads are sleyed through the reed THEN the heddles before being wound onto the back beam. It is a method often used when "painting the reed" with many different colors of threads in a hit-or-miss- type of sleying. Randall Darwall uses this technique because all of his warps are hand dyed/painted and he warps looms himself before sending out to his production weavers to finish.