Category: Ars Textrina
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Awkward Photo
photo taken from under the loom, late at night draft of the design The draft is sideways – I forgot to rotate it before saving it, but you can see the general gist of it. This is the latest draft I used from Ars Textrina. (No, the book does not ‘name’ the drafts, they are…
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Mulling Things Over
draft for next towel warp The current warp is nearing completion and it is time to begin organizing the next warp in the queue. Drawing upon the Ars Textrina information provided by Patricia Hilts, I selected a twill block design, tinkering with it to be suitable for a tea towel. Over several days I revisted…
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Percolating
Now that company has gone and I’m back to thinking about what I want to be weaving, and because the current warp is well underway, it is time to start thinking about the next warp. There are two boxes of pirns filled with two shades of beige so it seems time to do another beige…
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Tricky Twills
Most weavers have experienced the phenomenon of having the outside ends of their warp ‘fall out’ of the cloth when they reverse the direction of a twill. It is the reason so many weavers recommend that a floating selvedge be used for twills. Since I don’t like using floating selvedges, I try to find work…
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Fancy Twills
four shaft Wall of Troy (M. P. Davison) Wall of Troy extended to 8 shafts For the past few years I have played with ‘fancy’ twills. Someone asked me what I meant by ‘fancy’ and I had to think about that term for a bit. While I knew what I meant, I had to think…
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This ‘n That
Finally collected and cleaned off enough bobbins for a full day’s weaving. Having woven with linen previously starting out without soaking bobbins, then half way through soaking them, I knew that the yarn would beat in differently. Or could. So I didn’t want to dampen the bobbins if I couldn’t weave a whole towel with…
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Snowflakes Keep Falling….
….or the further adventures in wonderland…… This the threading I chose last night, shown woven as drawn in. This shows two repeats in the treadling as well as the threading. The warp is just over two repeats wide; the textiles will be several repeats long, of course. I’m well over the half way mark in…
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Flowers in November
After the weekly errand run with my mom I came home and finished threading the warp and sleyed it at 24 epi (with the doubled ends counting as ‘one’). This is the very beginning of the weaving. I keep left over weft on bobbins to use for headers, cut lines, testing colours and so on,…