Category: fancy twills
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No Rules!
A weaving draft for a twill – or in this case a 1:3 twill The other day I saw an ad for a weaving class. NO Rules! Ok. You’re going to ignore millennia of history regarding the things that make weaving rational and just…wing it? Which would be fine if people bothered to learn…
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Before and After
a variation on Swedish Snowflake Wet finishing will ‘change’ your textiles. Sometimes a lot; sometimes not so much. Since I wet finished the last warp while there was still some of the warp left to weave, I have an example of the same textile in loom state and after wet finishing. The weave structure…
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Sampling
There are actually two samples in the photo – one was woven with 20/2 unmercerized white, the other was woven with 2/20 mercerized ‘natural’. But what I want to point out today is the selvedge. There are so many people who insist that a selvedge *must* be plain weave. But here’s the thing –…
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A New Week, A New Warp
florets – showing hem area and repeats of the motif Well, not, quite – it depends on when you begin counting your week (is it Sunday? Or Monday?) I’ve just finished threading the next warp – the one inspired by the Snail’s Trails and Cat’s Paws motif so well known from being used as…
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A New Week, A New Warp
florets – showing hem area and repeats of the motif Well, not, quite – it depends on when you begin counting your week (is it Sunday? Or Monday?) I’ve just finished threading the next warp – the one inspired by the Snail’s Trails and Cat’s Paws motif so well known from being used as…
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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…