Category: collapse fabric
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Prepping and Proto-typing
box full of pirns ready for weaving tomorrow proto-type warp for Durham NC workshop Today was slow but steady progress – the loom got threaded, sleyed and tied on, ready to weave. By the time I got pirns wound it was too late to start so that will happen tomorrow. I scored a box of…
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Finished!
I won’t say that the scarf is done as it still needs to be hemmed, but here it is after wet finishing. Although southern guilds aren’t keen to have wool in the Magic workshop – they have very little call or use for wool – a little bit used to create shrinkage differential or ‘collapse’…
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After Sample
…..and here’s the ‘after’ sample. 🙂 Again, the bottom bit is woven with the wool as weft. The results are interesting but not ‘collapse’. The top bit is with the Tencel as weft and voila! Collapse! After serging the ends I tossed the sample into the hottest water my hands could stand, then balled it…
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Sampling
Although I’ve worked with ‘collapse’ weaves and shrinkage differential quite a bit, ultimately every time you change yarns you have to sample. If you don’t you risk losing the entire project. So even though I know from previous sampling that the white yarn (Henry’s Attic Pony Worsted) fulls very well I’ve not actually combined it…
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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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Another Bumpy Fabric
This jacket is another fabric with ‘bumps’. The base fabric is Harris Tweed wool. Harris Tweed is not Harrisville. Two completely different yarns. Harris Tweed is a singles, tightly twisted yarn which makes a sturdy cloth. To this base I added stripes of 2/20 mercerized cotton. There are two wefts – the Harris Tweed, and…
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Fabric that goes Bump
I started playing around with creating textiles with texture in the mid-1980’s. This coat was the result of a technique sometimes called cloque’. It’s a stitched double weave with one layer that fulls, one layer that doesn’t. In this case the top layer is 2/8 cotton, the inside layer is a wool/cotton blend. The top…
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Round Tuits
three yarns I have used to make ‘collapse’ fabrics table runner showing hem in plain weave, body in broken twill Slowly, slowly energy is returning and I am beginning to deal with things that have needed to be done for some time but for which I never seemed to have a round tuit. A number of…
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Wet Finished
cones of Fox Fibre yarn and wet finished towels Friday evening I finished weaving the beige warp with the Fox Fibre weft and ran the 19 towels through the washer/dryer on Saturday. Today I went and pressed them. Over all I’m quite pleased with the results although the colours aren’t ‘my’ colours. Actually the brown…
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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…