Category: tracking
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Twist and Texture
I finally got a photo of the texture that developed during wet finishing. Below is how the cloth looked in the loom… Now, the cloth in the loom was really pretty. And no doubt I may do something similar in the future. I’m planning some white on white silk (warp) and cashmere (weft) scarves,…
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Riding the Avalanche
Just started weaving this warp yesterday. So far, so good. However… There is an ‘easter egg’ in this cloth. The warp is 2/20 merc. cotton at 36 epi; the weft is singles 6 with energy (high level of twist – which if you look closely you can see evidence of in the little ‘pigtails’…
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Tracking
I did an article for WEFT (vol 1?) that talked about tracking, and included a photo of a cloth woven in twill and showed the tracking effect on that twill cloth. It was very subtle, and hard to see, but if I looked closely enough, it was clearly there. The thing is, tracking is…