Category: selvedges

Selvedges  (click on word for all 21 posts written under that label)    Someone asked about my selvedges in the previous post – it appeared that the selvedge thread was not ‘attached’ to the cloth well (I paraphrase). It’s true. I don’t always have a selvedge that has a ‘firmly attached’ selvedge thread.  In the…

  selvedges – no that is not a plain weave selvedge I am pleased to say that the Kickstarter for WEFT seems to be going well and it’s looking like we will see a ‘new kid on the block’ in terms of weaving publications this time next year.  (see yesterday’s post for the link.) It…

  warp under tension warp not under tension Today is April 1, but this is not an April Fools post. There is a lot of discussion about selvedges in the handweaving community – usually how to get ‘perfect’ selvedges.  But what IS ‘perfect’, anyway? And how do we learn to recognize when something is good…

 People want to be helpful (usually).  If there is one thing social media has shone a light on, is that people will pass on advice, sometimes even when it isn’t asked for.  I have been guilty of this myself, and so I have largely stepped back from posting on social media groups and use this…

 People want to be helpful (usually).  If there is one thing social media has shone a light on, is that people will pass on advice, sometimes even when it isn’t asked for.  I have been guilty of this myself, and so I have largely stepped back from posting on social media groups and use this…

 People want to be helpful (usually).  If there is one thing social media has shone a light on, is that people will pass on advice, sometimes even when it isn’t asked for.  I have been guilty of this myself, and so I have largely stepped back from posting on social media groups and use this…

 The bugaboo of so many weavers – their selvedges. 2:2 twill 16 shaft 1:3-3:1 twill 16 shaft fancy twill New weavers will often times get tangled up in the fact that their selvedges are not ‘perfect’.  They hear that there *must* be a plain weave interlacement at the selvedge or it’s ‘wrong’.  Or that there…

  Mug rug woven in rep weave with plain weave hems (unhemmed) This is a sample of warp rep.  It was designed for a workshop topic where students would weave ‘mug rugs’ in weave structures and yarns suitable for table.  As a ‘mug rug’ or coaster, they still got a usable textile at the end…

  When weaving 1:3 twill blocks, sometimes the selvedge doesn’t want to weave in nicely.  For this warp, I doubled the four outside ends in the heddle (keeping them the same density as the rest of the cloth in the reed) but the pulling of the warp combined with the weave structure means that the…