This Baltic style band is now long enough so that I can undo it from the cloth take-up roller and use a bag clip to secure it to the breast beam. I find this a more flexible solution to the tension issue.
The reverse side of the band is different from the face, but also attractive.
The following picture is from under the loom:
In this weaving limbo I seem to be inhabiting, I have had the opportunity to do a lot of reading. Here are some recent reads:
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System, by Matt Richtel; The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish; and Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir, by Diana Athill.
All interesting in their own way.