Category: Sample

  This is one repeat (threading) and 1+ repeats of the treadling.  The beginning and end of the towel is woven in straight draw for the hems and to ‘frame’ the motif. The motif is more-or-less circular with a tendency to look elongated, so now that I look at the cloth itself, it looks pretty…

blue/grey with mystery yarn towel  This morning I pressed the samples for the second article.  Now they will finish drying and then I’ll examine, document and assess them for results.  And then see what conclusions I come to. Not all of the results were a ‘surprise’ to me, given I’ve been weaving for nearly 50…

  Here’s a teaser – one of the samples I wove for one of the articles I’m writing.  And yes, I did sort of expect that to happen – it’s all part of what I will be looking at in the article.  🙂 Right now my studio is a bit of a shambles.  I’m back…

  end of the yellow, beginning of the blue/green Yesterday I finished the yellow weft and started on the blue/green weft.   I chose to weave plain weave for a number of reasons. The yellow would blend more evenly with the warp colours and *appear* to be a bright green. The epi on this warp was…

  I’ve been weaving a lot of plain weave lately, in part because I need plain weave samples for a couple of the articles I’ve been writing. It has been good to get back to ‘basics’ and hone my skills. Because ‘simple’ does not equate to ‘easy’. I frequently see beginner weavers confidently stating that…

  I have finished weaving the samples I need for the two articles.  I think.  I will know better once I’ve done the wet finishing if I need to do more.  Perhaps these samples will raise more questions and I want to see if I can find an answer.  Or I will see an angle…

  A cone, tube and cotton boll against a background of woven cotton sample Cotton.  One of my favourite yarns to weave.   Not everyone knows where fibres come from, and sometimes it’s good to dig a little and find out more about the materials we work with and tend to use frequently. Cotton is versatile,…

  Yesterday I finished weaving the 3rd shawl and cut those off the loom.   They are woven from rayon (bamboo), and as such the threads are fairly slippery, so the cloth is, shall we say, fragile?  I didn’t want to mess around with the web very much so carefully pulled the web off the loom…

  Yesterday the box of yarn I ordered arrived.  About $200 worth.  Yes, that little pile of yarn is close to $200.   What will I make with it? A better weaver.  One who has never woven with any of these particular yarns before, and therefore needs to understand how they will behave, both in the…