Category: 2/20 merc. cotton
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Assumptions
after wetting the threads out the threads have increased in diameter as they bloomed In our search for definitive answers, we tend to grab hold of one end of the string (quite literally, at times) and think that we have understood all of the aspects there are to know about something. As I try…
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Staging Area
8 boxes of hand wovens all packed up ready to be loaded into the van Once again my living room floor is acting as a staging area as we prepare for the first of four consecutive craft fairs. Doug has gone off to unload the rear seats of the van, store them at the annex…
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Staging Area
8 boxes of hand wovens all packed up ready to be loaded into the van Once again my living room floor is acting as a staging area as we prepare for the first of four consecutive craft fairs. Doug has gone off to unload the rear seats of the van, store them at the annex…
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Staging Area
8 boxes of hand wovens all packed up ready to be loaded into the van Once again my living room floor is acting as a staging area as we prepare for the first of four consecutive craft fairs. Doug has gone off to unload the rear seats of the van, store them at the annex…
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In Pursuit of Perfection
two different waffle towels As I was nearing the end of this blue warp I started having misgivings. I’d changed the epi from 36 to 30 because the weft I was wanting to use was somewhat thicker than what I’d used on the last 2/20 merc. warps and thought that a more open warp might work better. …
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Weaving Zen
There is nothing quite like weaving when everything is going smoothly. 🙂 Today I found myself in harmony with the loom and decided to tape a video clip. I’d hoped that my left hand would be more visible so that viewers could see how I catch the shuttle between my index and middle finger, then…
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Rising to the Challenge
here is the 2/20 merc. cotton warp all beamed and ready to be threaded brown and green Fox Fibre yarn on cone and small sample soaked in heavy concentration of washing soda and detergent – wow! look at the green! One of my weaving mentors always said that if we weren’t making mistakes we weren’t…
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Finished! (Almost)
This morning I went up to the annex and fired up Puff so that I could press the cloth that went through the washer and dryer last night. I’m quite pleased with the results. The green and brown are the Fox Fibre weft yarn, the white uses ‘ordinary’ 2/16 cotton in natural for weft. The…
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That Old Magic in the Water
light green on left, light brown on right before wet finishing It truly felt like magic in the water! The wefts before finishing were quite subtle. After wet finishing they turned darker and took on a lot more definition. And these are spun with just 25% of the naturally coloured cotton. The colours may deepen…
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More of the Same
This treadling pleased me enough that I decided to weave a second item in the same treadling but with one of the darker green Fox Fibre wefts. I think the pattern shows up a little more clearly – possibly because the colour value is just that much slightly darker than the last one. One of…