Category: bamboo yarn
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Bamboo
There is a lot of confusion about bamboo fibre – what it is, and what it isn’t. What it is, right now, is mostly regenerated cellulose. As such there are certain environmental issues involved with the production of bamboo and claims about how ‘green’ it may – or may not – be. I had…
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Scarcity
Finished the tomato warp this morning and wound the next one – a mixture of browns, golds and sage greens along with Carob brown Bambu 7. I had purposely let my inventory of Bambu 7 dwindle, thinking I was done using it in production so when I went to put together the yarns to complement…
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Next Challenge
So, the tea towels are cut and serged, I’ve figured out what needs to be done on the ‘test’ warp, the first load of skeins are soaking, alternate yarn for plying has been coned off onto smaller cones for ease of use…..the next challenge is to turn these yarns into a warp for shawls and…
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Making Plans
One of the warps that has been on my to-be-done list for a rather long time is a production run of rayon chenille scarves woven in Diversified Plain Weave. I first came across this weave structure in a copy of Weaver’s Magazine where it was referred to as Diversified Huck because the threading system was…
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Beaming the Afghan Warp
Warp beamed on smaller second beam Main warp being beamed on upper 1 yard beam With my trusty chart close to hand I started beaming the main warp this morning. My chart lays out how many sections of each colour: A will have x sections, B y, C z and so on. I count out…
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Beaming the Afghan Warp
Warp beamed on smaller second beam Main warp being beamed on upper 1 yard beam With my trusty chart close to hand I started beaming the main warp this morning. My chart lays out how many sections of each colour: A will have x sections, B y, C z and so on. I count out…
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Designing the Afghan Warp
meter/counter set up for winding spools meter/counter with tensioner meter/counter with channeled wheel for measuring yarn Got the stripe sequence for the afghan warp designed and numbers crunched for how much yarn to wind onto the spools. I’m working with four different coloured stripes, one of which will be a varigated yarn that will get…
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Collapse Scarves
First two collapse scarves Well, I’m not satisfied with the white one, but the black one turned out exactly as I hoped. The white one was woven with a 12/2 mercerized cotton and has a much stiffer hand than the black one which was woven with Bambu 12. So, I’ll try a 20/2 mercerized cotton…
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*RED* Hot
Red Hot Shawl Tried to get a picture of the red scarf warp in the loom, but the colour gradations are too subtle and it just looked ‘red’ instead of red hot, like it looks on the loom. So instead I’m showing a photo of a painted warp shawl that I wet finished last week…
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Bamboo Rain
Shawl #2 In between helping Katie get started I did get the AVL dressed with the Bamboo Rain yarn. It’s weaving up co-operatively and looking quite nice on the loom. The bright pink has been somewhat subdued by the paler purple being used for weft on this shawl. The first shawl I used pink weft…