Category: silk scarf
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Physics
1:3 twills will curl draft shows the path of the weft and warp It is a fact that – like stockinette stitch in knitting – a 1:3 twill fabric will curl at the edges. There is really nothing that can be done to prevent this. Not a floating selvedge or temples. It will curl. A…
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Physics
1:3 twills will curl draft shows the path of the weft and warp It is a fact that – like stockinette stitch in knitting – a 1:3 twill fabric will curl at the edges. There is really nothing that can be done to prevent this. Not a floating selvedge or temples. It will curl. A…
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Sprouting
When I began telling people that I was going to ‘retire’ and close down my business, the question would be asked – what would I do? The short answer was – I don’t know. I knew I would keep weaving, just not production weaving. I knew I would write – for this blog, if nothing…
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Change One Thing
Change one thing and everything can change. Such a simple sentence. Such a complex concept. This is one of the principles that are explored in the Olds Master Weaving (level one) class. I say this over and over. Usually after saying “It depends.” The best short answer to almost every question in weaving is “It…
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Change One Thing
Change one thing and everything can change. Such a simple sentence. Such a complex concept. This is one of the principles that are explored in the Olds Master Weaving (level one) class. I say this over and over. Usually after saying “It depends.” The best short answer to almost every question in weaving is “It…
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Worthy Causes
These are some of a run of silk scarves I did a few years ago. I was down to two last weekend, and then one of the two sold so I only had one left – the purple one more or less in the centre. Now after being in business for as many years as…
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Love Affair
My love affair with twills is long standing but lately it’s been herringbone twill. Different yarns, different proportions, but it has been holding my interest for a few warps now. This is another of the sample warps for the Big Project. I need to sit down with my notebook and make sure I get all…
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Starry Night
Neither of these photos are quite the right colour. The top one is about as dark but too grey. The bottom is the right blue but not dark enough. But the best I can do with my camera and software. The point is that I could have titled this post Making Lemonade, or Design Feature…
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Loop Oops
Lack of attention while winding this bobbin means that a ‘loop’ of yarn ‘fell off’ the end of the bobbin leaving slack which will eventually drag off the end of the bobbin and wrap around the spindle of the shuttle during weaving. Unless I deal with it immediately. The easiest way to do this is…
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Beauty Shot
Doug pressed the scarves today. I think they are a ‘winner’. Now I have to decide if I wind longer warps and dress the big loom with them. That would require a lot more fiddling, but make the weaving itself go more easily. I think you’ll probably guess which route I’ll take. If I’m going…