Category: Inkle Weaving
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A return to inkles
Saori style weaving wasn’t the only style offered over the recent school holidays in the studio. Katie ventured into some inkle loom weaving producing a lovey braid and a friendship band of her own design all in under two hours! Her grandmother, Dianne, is continuing to weave a beautiful teal pre-wound for a top and…
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Converting an Inkle loom for Saori style weaving
I’ve done ALOT of weaving on inkle looms over the years and even had a comprehensive exhibition with them many years ago. I think the inkle loom is another very accessible loom for new weavers. It’s only drawback for some, is it’s limit in width. By default, the inkle loom does warp faced weaves. This means…
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Inkling Workshop
The Textile design and weave workshop was beyond great. It was so wonderful to have a group of students, even for such a short time, that were excited by the prospect of learning how to create and design textiles for the first time. This is something I haven’t experienced for a while as I’ve been teaching subjects that…
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Sticky Inkle Textile Design
I’m teaching a Beginners Weave workshop with Inkle and Saori weaving at Adult Education in Taree on Thursday (10 September) and wanted the participants to explore textile design in a quick, easy, taster sort of way. I thought about coloured pencils and paint but the restricted time of the workshop didn’t really suit this approach.…
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The Clarity of Pattern Expression
I am revisiting this post on Celtic Knot Textiles because of my participation in the Inkle Weaving Workshop I’ve been doing with Steve Kennett at the Online Guild. Also see Sara Lamb’s Celtic Knotwork. I’ve always found pick up labourious. Even though the results are worth it. It seemed that the arrangement of Steve’s working patterns made…
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Inkling Again
I’m still enthralled with the little inkle workshop and now I’ve done a pattern that has pickup and drop down on it. I think I can weave one a night. Some of you (thank you Peg) may have noticed an inability to comment on my previous post. Well I’ve looked into it and I’m none…
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The Ultimate Stress Breaker ~ Inkles
I’ve had a stressful week this week for no particular reason much, except for life and the demands and losses it imposes on us! So it was such a welcome reprieve to warp up my little inkle loom and weave a pick up pattern to Steve Kennett’s instructions at the Online Guild May workshop on…