Category: treadling
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Tracking Treadling
I don’t know if this chart is going to show up in its entirety – I only did half of the repeat in hopes that the numbers would be legible. But let’s give it a go… So I’m weaving a set of samples and one of them is an advancing twill progression. It’s fairly simple,…
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Begin Agin
….and here I go again. The first few ends in a warp that will be 764 ends. You might just be able to see that it’s mostly blue with a little ‘sea green’. The threading is another variation on point twill that will likely be woven in an advancing progression. It’s not quite what I…
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Begin Agin
….and here I go again. The first few ends in a warp that will be 764 ends. You might just be able to see that it’s mostly blue with a little ‘sea green’. The threading is another variation on point twill that will likely be woven in an advancing progression. It’s not quite what I…
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Blue Towels
blue/grey towels on loom close up showing Wall of Troy and straight twill threadings A few posts ago Sharon commented on weaving being a whole body experience. This is something that new weavers don’t understand at first, especially if they have only woven on narrow warps. The wider the warp you have on the loom,…
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Wall of Troy
Draft for tea towel warpOne of the twill weaves I like a lot is Wall of Troy. The draft shown here combines a straight twill draw on the edges with Wall of Troy in the centre. The towels (I’ll post a photo tomorrow perhaps) are turning out really nicely. The two colours were threaded with…
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Place Mats Again
On Monday Karena got the next warp for place mats beamed, threaded and sleyed – and still had time left over to trim fringes, and vacuum. I think she was pleased that she’s getting faster with practice. 😀 She used the warping valet and only needed a few suggestions to do it all by herself,…