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I’ve come to the end of the sample warp woven from #33462 on handwaving.net and it has now been cut off and washed. Here’s a look at the original draft: The washed & dried samples: below are the original draft 33462 (L) and its reverse (R)… …and on the left below with its tie-up wrapped…
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After all that, I think I will go with the monochromatic gray/gray version, and look for drama in some fancy selvedge stripes in multicolor. I think the texture of the English Tabby structure is very appealing in its homespun look, and I will enjoy adding a few new napkins in this structure to my personal…
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First, a disclaimer. I am not a cat person. Never had a cat, probably never will. A few weeks ago I came upon a structure named English Tabby. It is certainly plain weave, with a twist. And it can be woven on as few as 2 shafts. The idea seems to be to add texture…
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The shawl is complete. After wet finishing, the lacy weave drapes nicely. I’ve chosen a short, plain fringe with no embellishment. My hands don’t’ want to do twisted fringe any more. Period. Department of Books. I have finished reading Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami.
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The story continues. Straight threading on 8 shafts. Just wound on, the view from the back of the loom: And front view, after the hemstitching and the first few inches of weaving. 8/2 cotton warp and weft, 16 epi and ppi. A couple of close-ups of the weave structure: A reminder: this is draft #3012…
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There was a little bit of warp left on the loom after my brocade samples were finished. It was threaded in a straight draw on 8 shafts, and I was looking around for something new to try and came across this oddity on Handweaving.net: it was presented as weavable on 6 shafts but I really…
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The final challenge for this series was to weave a parallelogram within another parallelogram. This little critter kept me entertained for a whole day. Both samples on the current warp have now been cut off, washed, and hemmed. I flung them on the floor for a quick snapshot. Prettier pictures to follow, I hope. I…
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On the loom. A few picks per day. It now looks like an invasion in the studio. Following: fabric beads from the previous post strung on a lucet-made cord, with overhand knots as spacers. A UFO completed. And I’d like to add a note about the fabric beads: a tutorial by Victoria Gertenbach is available…
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In my experiments with drafts for brocading, I wanted to explore new possibilities for combinations of ground and brocade. In the following picture, I have tried to force the twill lines to run in opposition to each other. In the lower blue lozenge, I used a single end of blue 8/2 cotton as the brocading…
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Anyone who loves cloth will be stirred by the following: She is Dar Młodzieży, the first Polish-built, ocean-going sailing vessel to circumnavigate the globe (1987–88). All those billowing yards of cloth in various pale neutrals. Yes, that’s how I spent most of my Fourth, in front of the TV, watching the Tall Ships in NY…
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It’s not my usual way of working. I’m accustomed to days of planning before starting a project, sometimes too much planning. This time I’m just diving in, letting the warp tell me where to go as it unwinds. After a section is woven and wrapped on the cloth beam, it’s out of my line of…
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On the new red warp, a continued exploration of diagonal brocading. But boredom set in and I needed to do rectangles for a change. I worked out a draft with a plain weave ground and ties that will allow rectangular brocading shapes. Here are the first samples. As usual, I’m expecting everything to tighten up…
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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,…
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I’ve never seen this particular arrangement for brocading, so I think it’s original, but in weaving you never know… Straight threading on 8 shafts. In the weft, the brocade picks are shown in yellow and the plain weave ground picks in black. One complete weft repeat is 16 picks. Above: Screenshot of draft in TempoWeave…
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On my interim warp I’ve taken some time to give my head a rest and weave samples of inlay. This patterning technique is hand-manipulated and slow. Inlay is sometimes referred to as brocading. I use the terms interchangeably here. Small areas of supplementary weft that do not extend to the selvedges are woven on a…
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