Mar 09 2009
Weaving Air and Weave Momentum
As I’m trying to keep up a weave momentum on my loom and in my head I just needed to get something quickly on my loom before my double weave experiments get up and running. I chose to have a go at a deflected doubleweave scarf that is in Handwoven Jan 09 by Barbara Herbster (p. 44).
I changed the wool, sett and width but I’m hoping it will be very light and drapeable once I’ve taken it off the loom and finished it. Barbara’s original sett is 24epi but mine is 16epi using a 3/20s wool from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop.
As I’ve got 24 shafts I had to redesign the draft so it included them all but I haven’t taken advantage of them in the design….yet. More shafts offer more design options and the ideas start pouring out. I just need that inspiration from Barbara and to see the threads actually interlacing on the loom.
Air is a popular yarn at the moment and suits our ‘economic times’. Weaving in more air really suits me but too much doesn’t produce a textile.
That’s unbelievably beautiful, both color and pattern. I’d love to learn to weave something light and airy like that someday.
You are tempting me……………..gosh this is beautiful and it would be so nice to weave “air”……… Though I am also tempted by the felted scarf in the latest Handwoven……..
Lovely, I’d love to see a photo after it’s finished. Love the colours!
I give you until the end of April before you start thinking… “Oh, if I only had two more shafts!!!” Though today, while threading, I thought 16 is more than plenty to confuse my eyes.