Weaverly

Here are the latest samples, cut off the loom and wet finished. They’ve tightened up, and the ground cloth which looked somewhat sleazy on the loom is now closer to what I was looking for.

From right to left in the above picture, I tried plain weave grounds in fine silk, then several in cotton, with various brocading wefts, and finally my favorite, shown below, with an 8/2 cotton weft in twill ground with doubled 8/2 cotton as the brocading weft.

I am happy to see the diagonals of ground and brocade slanting in opposite directions. So happy, in fact, that I’ve put on another warp, this time with a mixture of 8/2 cotton and tencel in random order, and will repeat this structure, this time trying more color combinations (draft for this in previous post, if you’re interested.)