Category: rayon chenille
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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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Flowers or?
So here is scarf #4. I’m kind of liking this motif a lot and can see it in a bunch of different colours. I’m calling it a flower although it could be a four leaf clover, too. 🙂 The rhythm of the shuttle throwing is much slower than just using one shuttle, or even two…
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Have A Heart (or two)
cheese grater beam installedscarf #2 and 3 off the loom, back and front sides…once the cloth has been wet finished I expect the motif side will ‘read’ better since the chenille will be all fluffed up and give better coverage…it already has a quite nice hand, though, not like how 100% rayon chenille woven in…
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Diversified Plain Weave
a little oopsie…see the line??? This afternoon I tied on and started weaving on the Diversified Plain Weave warp I had prepared a while ago. DPW is an interesting weave structure consisting of two different yarns, generally a thick yarn and a much finer one in both warp and weft. The thick yarn is what…
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Next Warp
Started beaming the warps for the Diversified Plain Weave scarf run this morning. DPW is a weave structure that has a fat pattern thread and a fine tie down thread in the warp and the weft. Winding a warp with two such disparate grists can be a problem when one is putting on a long…
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Next Warp
Started beaming the warps for the Diversified Plain Weave scarf run this morning. DPW is a weave structure that has a fat pattern thread and a fine tie down thread in the warp and the weft. Winding a warp with two such disparate grists can be a problem when one is putting on a long…
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Next Warp
Started beaming the warps for the Diversified Plain Weave scarf run this morning. DPW is a weave structure that has a fat pattern thread and a fine tie down thread in the warp and the weft. Winding a warp with two such disparate grists can be a problem when one is putting on a long…
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In Search of Clarity
I think that if you click on the picture you can just make out option #2 (at bottom) and option #3 (at top). I confess I’m not actually loving this warp. Perhaps it’s the colour combination which I mentioned previously isn’t amongst my favourites. But right now, making something I personally love to bits isn’t…
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Making Plans
One of the warps that has been on my to-be-done list for a rather long time is a production run of rayon chenille scarves woven in Diversified Plain Weave. I first came across this weave structure in a copy of Weaver’s Magazine where it was referred to as Diversified Huck because the threading system was…