Finished winding this warp today and after lunch will rough sley it and get it into the loom.
The white is the cut line and I will weave a contrasting colour for the weft-wise cut line as I have been doing for the last few warps.
For some of the samples I just changed treadling to make the cut line, but that doesn’t always work.
When I first thought about this project I’d thought to make actual finished items, so warp cut lines weren’t going to work very well. For several of the cotton samples I wove cloth with straight lines as part of their design so that cutting would be easy, but not have actual cut lines to interfere with the finished item.
Since then I decided that I didn’t actually need a finished item, that the sample would be sufficient. This decision has made life enormously simpler.
My hope with these publications is not to create a portfolio of textiles that can be simply copied as they are – although that is possible – but to provide enough information that weavers can push the boundaries of their own knowledge and experience to create their own textiles.
As a teacher I am far more interested in people winding up knowing more than they may have before. My hope is that they end up a more confident weaver with a broader base of knowledge.
Currently reading Seawitch by Kat Richardson