Category: video clip
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Productivity
orange all used up – changed to cream – the beauty of a neutral warp! After a weaving demo at a workshop, a new weaver came up to thank me for the demonstration. Essentially she said that she’d resigned herself to the fact weaving was going to be slow forever, and after watching me weave…
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Productivity
orange all used up – changed to cream – the beauty of a neutral warp! After a weaving demo at a workshop, a new weaver came up to thank me for the demonstration. Essentially she said that she’d resigned herself to the fact weaving was going to be slow forever, and after watching me weave…
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Selvedges
Selvedges. Such a fuss about selvedges at times. What I’ve found over the years is that there is no one thing that will guarantee good selvedges. First of all, the warp must be evenly wound onto the beam with good tension. If it isn’t, selvedges are likely to be terrible. The warp must be well…
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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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Walking the Line
The twill line, that is….. Since I tend to do a lot of different twills I keep my treadles tied up in a straight twill draw. In this video I am weaving a straight twill. If I were weaving a broken twill, I would simply alternate my feet – treadle 4, treadle 2, treadle 3,…
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Goin’ With the Flow
Sometimes things morph. The Plan for this warp was to weave some squares for shawls, fairly small ones at around 30″ square. Something lower price points. But then I remembered that Doug’s niece – a fiery red-head – loves pink and orange as a colour combination. And since we’ll be visiting her on the return…
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Bamboo Rain
Shawl #2 In between helping Katie get started I did get the AVL dressed with the Bamboo Rain yarn. It’s weaving up co-operatively and looking quite nice on the loom. The bright pink has been somewhat subdued by the paler purple being used for weft on this shawl. The first shawl I used pink weft…
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Weaving Coaching
This summer I’ve had the treat of having several students come for weaving coaching. All of them have been interested in improving their physical skills, with the aim of increasing their productivity. Sharon has a busy life and a satisfying but demanding job and therefore her time to weave is limited. She was interested in…
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Wide(r) Weaving
So I realized that all of the video clips I’ve got posted to my blog are of narrow weaving. And since the current warp is a bit wider at 26″, thought I’d do another video showing my weaving rhythm on this warp. You can see that I’m a lot slower due to the simple fact…
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Another Weaving Clip
The age old question – do you beat on an open shed? closing shed? closed shed? I thought I beat on a closing shed until I really started thinking about what I was doing and observing what was actually happening. And then I began thinking that at the moment of impact, the shed was in…