Category: Pat Hilts
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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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Mulling Things Over
draft for next towel warp The current warp is nearing completion and it is time to begin organizing the next warp in the queue. Drawing upon the Ars Textrina information provided by Patricia Hilts, I selected a twill block design, tinkering with it to be suitable for a tea towel. Over several days I revisted…
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Weaving Drafts
What new weavers don’t always understand is that a weaving draft is just a set of possibilities. The draft shows how a loom can be set up with a threading progression (in this case point over 16 shafts) and then how the shafts can be combined in a particular sequence to achieve a motif. That’s…
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Percolating
Now that company has gone and I’m back to thinking about what I want to be weaving, and because the current warp is well underway, it is time to start thinking about the next warp. There are two boxes of pirns filled with two shades of beige so it seems time to do another beige…
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Tricky Twills
Most weavers have experienced the phenomenon of having the outside ends of their warp ‘fall out’ of the cloth when they reverse the direction of a twill. It is the reason so many weavers recommend that a floating selvedge be used for twills. Since I don’t like using floating selvedges, I try to find work…
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Flowers in November
After the weekly errand run with my mom I came home and finished threading the warp and sleyed it at 24 epi (with the doubled ends counting as ‘one’). This is the very beginning of the weaving. I keep left over weft on bobbins to use for headers, cut lines, testing colours and so on,…