Category: Diversifed Plain Weave
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And So It Begins – Again
Sleyed the warp this morning and started weaving again. The first scarf is going to be this simple diamond pattern in order to check to make sure I had no threading or sleying oopsies. I had one sleying error – in the very last dent! Easy to fix. And some tension issues, which were handily…
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Deja Vu
With both looms needing warps and feeling somewhat better after a couple of trips to the chiropractor I got the sample warp for my student onto the loom yesterday and today. With just one student I’ve found that it’s not a bad thing to dress the loom for them first, let them get the feel…
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A Sense of Satisfaction
stack of scarves cut and serged, ready to be wet finished… There is always a certain sense of satisfaction when it is time to cut the proto-cloth from the loom and get it ready for wet finishing. Especially something like rayon chenille which changes so very dramatically after it has been wet finished. There is…
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Weave Fail
There are so many ways for things to go ‘wrong’ during the weaving process. The project can begin to go off the rails in the design stage when the weaver makes a poor choice of yarn, a poor choice of density, an inappropriate weave structure or a motif that isn’t ‘elegant’. Why? Probably because the…
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Twinkle, Twinkle
Some motifs are easier to weave than others. A star, a simple little 5 pointed star, would I thought be easy-peasy. Not so. These ones look better on the ‘back’ of the cloth, which in reality will be the face of the cloth. But I wasn’t really very happy with them. They sort of look…
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Ideas
I intended to weave one of this design in turquoise, then had a brain cramp and started a second one. Which then ‘suffered’ a flaw which will no doubt make it a ‘second’. Oh well. Have been thinking about where ideas come from and how they come into material form. I have ideas. Lots of…
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Movable Feast
V-shaped scarf in double weave…. Yesterday a present arrived from Sweden – a birthday/thinking-of-you present. 🙂 The really nice thing about having weavers for friends is that sometimes hand woven gifts appear. No, the scarf is not sewn into a V shape – it has been woven this way. (For more information see Kerstin’s book…
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Movable Feast
V-shaped scarf in double weave…. Yesterday a present arrived from Sweden – a birthday/thinking-of-you present. 🙂 The really nice thing about having weavers for friends is that sometimes hand woven gifts appear. No, the scarf is not sewn into a V shape – it has been woven this way. (For more information see Kerstin’s book…
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Movable Feast
V-shaped scarf in double weave…. Yesterday a present arrived from Sweden – a birthday/thinking-of-you present. 🙂 The really nice thing about having weavers for friends is that sometimes hand woven gifts appear. No, the scarf is not sewn into a V shape – it has been woven this way. (For more information see Kerstin’s book…
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Movable Feast
V-shaped scarf in double weave…. Yesterday a present arrived from Sweden – a birthday/thinking-of-you present. 🙂 The really nice thing about having weavers for friends is that sometimes hand woven gifts appear. No, the scarf is not sewn into a V shape – it has been woven this way. (For more information see Kerstin’s book…