Category: scarf
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All Sorts
The last half of the painted warp has brighter shades – magentas, lime greens. It rather reminded me of Liquorice Allsorts – a candy popular when I was a kid. Don’t know how common they are outside of Canada. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquorice_allsorts Since I didn’t want to mute any of the colours I’m using black weft for…
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Sunday Progress
20 yard warp – done! yarns for next warp of tea towels Hallelujah – the grey warp is woven! The next warp is going to be a lot more colourful. (Ignore the blue cone – it’s just hangin’ around.) I’m looking forward to finally using up the last of the fine linen, but am not…
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Painted Warp
painted warp – rose and greens same painted warp – blue/greens with more rose coming up Back to working on the multitude of painted warps. It was hard to get a picture of the colours as they shifted through the warp. This warp is fairly subdued with browned roses, deep blues and greens. I’m using…
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Value/Hue
Just cut the red scarves off the loom and it’s a perfect example of the principle that value is more important than hue. Each of these scarves was woven with a different weft colour, but all of them were about the same value. From left to right the weft colours are:burgundy, kelp, black and chocolate…
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Fear of Colour
scarf #2 When I began weaving lo, these many years ago, I was interested in weave structure as the primary element of design. I would joke that my favourite colour was white. White on white, to be precise! I loved the look of damask, but of course without a drawloom that was a bit of…
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Fear of Colour
scarf #2 When I began weaving lo, these many years ago, I was interested in weave structure as the primary element of design. I would joke that my favourite colour was white. White on white, to be precise! I loved the look of damask, but of course without a drawloom that was a bit of…
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Back to Scarves
back to scarves and plain weave…. Finished the 11 meters (actually 10, I cut the warp off sooner ’cause I ran out of weft!) this afternoon then dressed the loom with a 10 meter painted warp. The warp is a mixture of soy protein fibre and Tencel about a 5/2 grist, set at 20 and…
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Scarfa-Stash Reduction
beginning of scarf showing header picks taken to the ends of the apron rod to prevent the warp from curling Finished weaving the silk warp after lace this afternoon, then dressed the Fanny loom with one of the many painted warps I have kicking around. Unfortunately I only have enough of the lovely blue weft…
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Scarfaweekend #2
click on photo to see close up In spite of spending the morning at the guild room dyeing, I managed to thread and sley the warp this afternoon and after dinner got about half of it woven in between minding the industrial cone winder. I have a new temporary studio elf coming in on Monday,…
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Scarfaweekend
This week has been pretty busy, what with the eBay book auctions for the guild (and me) ending every day of the week, plus getting ready for the weekend workshop. Somehow I never seemed to have a lot of time to get to the loom(s). 🙁 I did manage to finish off the placemat warp,…