Category: 2/20 merc. cotton
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Sneak Preview
Although the photo looks blurry, this is pretty much how the cloth looks. The white weft makes the cloth look very soft. This is another variation on Wall of Troy. Since I’m still debugging the cloth I’ve used plain old ordinary 2/16 cotton rather than the Fox Fibre yarn. And while I can’t really tell if…
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Making Plans
Here are the last two prototypes after wet finishing. The bamboo is noticably softer with better drape – only to be expected given the limp nature of ‘rayon’. With chemo scheduled again on Wednesday (given my white cell count is up high enough) and energy reserves getting noticably lower plus the pages of the calendar…
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Next Up
Today I wet finished the last two prototype textiles. As it happens, all four are ‘seconds’ in one way or another. The red Bambu weft one suffers from two different dye lots. Unfortunately the colour difference was not noticable when it was on the cones, it only showed up when I wove with the pirns. …
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Prototype
This afternoon I wove some samples and then decided to go with my gut and proceed with a prototype of the new product. I’m not going to do a reveal just yet – this idea is too new and the sampling/prototyping isn’t done and somehow I feel like talking too much about it will in…
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And Now For Something Completely Different
warp bundles threaded – I tie each group of 6 or 8 ends in a slipknot, then tie each repeat into a bigger slipknot as one way to keep track of my threading…. It seems as though I’ve been weaving nothing but plain weave for months. Oh wait! It seems that way because I’ve been…
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Time Becomes More Precious…
…the less of it you have. (song lyric sung by Bonnie Raitt) Plan C In my heart I still think I’m 39 (who is that old woman in the mirror and why is she stalking me?) but two years ago I was forcefully reminded that life is fragile and that we – none of us…
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All Things Being Equal…
I’m really kind of liking this but…… 2/20 merc. cotton is generally pretty solid as a warp. Sure I double the outside four ends in the heddles (but not the reed) just to give the selvedges a little more spine, but usually I have very little trouble with broken threads. The first four towels wove…
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Making Changes
Decided I wasn’t loving the twill blocks as much as I thought I would, so changed the tie up to a more ‘traditional’ look. In the process I reversed the twill line so it now begins with the snowflake motif on the outside and the snowballs in the centre. oops. Oh well. The tie up…
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Blue Mood
Got the blue warp weaving this evening. One sleying error, spotted after completing towel #1. It was one of those threads that simply did not weave into the cloth and rode along behind, invisible until I looked at the back of the cloth. Oh well – it will go to a good home as I…
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Oops!
Got started weaving this morning with a couple of oopsies. Approximately 900 ends in a fairly complex threading pattern and I had one sleying error and one threading error. The threading should have been 7,8,7 and it was actually 8,9,8. So I cut the errant threads out, tied repair heddles where needed (two on shaft…