Category: rayon chenille
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Time Management
next (last, for now) rayon chenille warp, empty AVL in background When I chose to become a professional/production weaver I had to make some choices. One of those choices was in the type of product I would make. Even though I am mostly interested in weaving, intellectually, in terms of weave structure, quite often exploring…
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Cutting My Losses
Weaving with rayon chenille, you are pretty much confined to plain weave unless you work hard to stabilize the yarn in some fashion. Since it is plain weave, my approach to designing a line of rayon chenille scarves is to make short warps (two scarves only), lots of stripes, lots of saturated colours. So why,…
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Attitude Adjustment
Having exercised a successful attitude adjustment, I am now well underway in terms of rayon chenille scarf production. The first warp went into the loom yesterday with one scarf (out of two) already woven off. This morning I decided to start sorting through the yarn inventory to see what I could possibly come up with…
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Adulthood
rayon chenille warp rayon chenille stash When I was a child I could hardly wait to grow up, be an adult, be….free. The problem is, there is just exactly as much freedom when you are an adult as when you are a child. You still have obligations, responsibilities…stuff you’d rather not do but must. Being…
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Trimmed and Tidy
red scarf ready for tagging; blue scarf to be trimmed and then tagged Doug has been manning the booth to let me come home and work on fringe twisting some of the last rayon chenille scarves that needed to be finished. It’s a good idea to fringe twist rayon chenille because if you don’t the…
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Choices
This particular weave structure and yarn combination loses quite a lot of length/width during wet finishing. Partly, I think, because of the rayon chenille which is fairly stretchy, partly because of the weave structure – two fine threads and one thick one in warp and weft. I think that means that the weave structure can…
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End of the Line – nearly
Still learning the new picture editing software. One of the things I’m trying to figure out is where it now saves things. None of the places seems intuitive to me – but then I’m a dinosaur. :} At any rate, here is the last of the scarf warp. There is enough left on the warp…
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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…