Category: wet finishing
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Before and After
The photo shows the cloth, one piece is prior to wet finishing, (background) and the other after wet finishing (foreground). It shows more in real life than in the photo but it does show a few things that if you squint you may see. The blue colour has intensified. During wet finishing, the threads…
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Batter Is Not Cake
Ignore the darker blue on the right hand side – it is the shadow of the woven web above onto the web below. I’m kind of ‘famous’ for the phrase ‘it isn’t finished until it’s wet finished’. The internet will make certain people ‘notable’ because of something they say, and I’m (face it) a…
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It Isn’t Finished Until…
after compression (plasticine) Yesterday I wove the first samples and today I will weave the next two. The first two look good on the loom, which may mean the second two will not. But either way I’ll weave them and judge them both after wet finishing. Saw somewhere on line a knitter asking if you…
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A Different Perspective
This is not a black and white photo. I was awake most of the night (yes, pain flare) and around 6:30 am I decided if I was going to be awake I might as well get something done rather than sit around and accomplish nothing. Since I had a bin of towels ready to…
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Another One Bites the Dust
I wasn’t exactly sure how many towels I would get off of this warp – it depends on the length of the repeat. Turns out, it was 22. I was busy with a Zoom guild presentation this morning, but my energy held and I wove one towel after lunch, then went back down after…
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To Full or Not to Full
wool after wet finishing and fairly significant fulling linen after wet finishing Just a friendly reminder that plant fibres do not full. Fulling is something that *some* protein fibres do. Not all wool will full, but ALL fibres need to be wet finished IMHO. Plant fibres will bloom as they absorb water. The threads…
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Purple
on the loom after wet finishing Wet finishing is the final step in bringing a collection of woven threads into being as ‘real’ cloth. While on the loom, it was possible to clearly see the reed marks (no so visible in the top photo, but believe me, I could clearly see them), the threads…
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Precision
photo showing a red and beige fabric that represents plain weave as the design Weaving is the kind of craft where on the one hand there is a great deal of precision, and on the other, not so much. We can, with some effort, be quite precise in our math, in our physical skills, in…
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Under Pressure
This morning I pressed the towels that were cut off the loom on Friday, and run through the washing machine last night. The top photo shows the compression line fairly clearly – the bottom half of the cloth is smooth, while above it is not. The middle photo shows the blue ridges of the weave…
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Detergents
Orvus WA Paste is a near-neutral pH, anionic synthetic surfactant and wetting agent with excellent detergency, emulsifying, and dispersing properties. What is Synthrapol? Synthrapol is a special detergent used in pre-scouring fibers before dyeing, and in washing out fiber reactive dyes after dyeing. It is also sometimes used as a surfactant or wetting agent to improve dye penetration.…