Category: Fox Fibre
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All Wrapped Up!
stack of ‘finished’ wraps sewing the ‘hand woven by Laura Fry’ label into the seam The thing about weaving is that what you are mostly making is squares or rectangles. Towels, place mats, shawls, scarves, table cloths. Rectangles. Or squares. Generally if you are making something out of your fabric, you can make any sort…
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Finished! (Almost)
This morning I went up to the annex and fired up Puff so that I could press the cloth that went through the washer and dryer last night. I’m quite pleased with the results. The green and brown are the Fox Fibre weft yarn, the white uses ‘ordinary’ 2/16 cotton in natural for weft. The…
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That Old Magic in the Water
light green on left, light brown on right before wet finishing It truly felt like magic in the water! The wefts before finishing were quite subtle. After wet finishing they turned darker and took on a lot more definition. And these are spun with just 25% of the naturally coloured cotton. The colours may deepen…
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More of the Same
This treadling pleased me enough that I decided to weave a second item in the same treadling but with one of the darker green Fox Fibre wefts. I think the pattern shows up a little more clearly – possibly because the colour value is just that much slightly darker than the last one. One of…