Comments on: Warping Makes the Cloth

By: Syne Mitchell

Syne Mitchell — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:58:22 +0000

Thanks for sharinG that tip about a really dark black. Orange, who’d a thought?

Syne

By: curiousweaver

curiousweaver — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:53:28 +0000

Thanks for your comments.
The ikat sections are just randomly wrapped then dyed. In this case I dyed the warp sections in a red..then I unwrap the sections leaving a little block of white. You could dye the whole thing again – thus changing the red colour but I just left the sections white for weaving.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:47:45 +0000

I’ve always been fascinated with the ikat look, but never understood much about it. I would like to try this someday, maybe when I’m better set up for dyeing.

By: textillian

textillian — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:57:36 +0000

Is this ikat method of wrapping sections, dyeing, then unwrapping sections, and dyeing again? Also, are you wrapping for a particular length so that the colors fall in a particular area of the design?

The colors are very eye-catching.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:52:16 +0000

Every time I see your work the little voice says, “Need to weave again!”. I can’t wait to see this warp on the loom and see the work in progress.