Category: Multishaft weaving
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What’s the hurry?
This is a bigger job on the loom at the moment. I’m revisiting a mini disaster of an exquisite double weave fabric, determined this time for it to really work for me. It is a double weave with two different warps creating the one cloth. Although all of my samples worked last time, I encountered…
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The Rail Reed and other distorted ponderings
There’s a saying that ‘when you don’t know what to do, do what you know.’ It’s more about maintaining a hold on life and dealing with suffering and as a general mantra for holding yourself together. But it works, for me, even when I am doing what I know…in my case – weaving. So I’m approaching this…
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Surprise Fluting and Puckering
My current double weave sampling is going well but I’m discovering some very curious and unexpected things. The concepts for this type of weave were triggered by an article in Weavers 11 (1990) by Alice Schlein and (blog). Even if you think you will never understand or have the equipment to weave as Alice writes, I would still recommend…
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What’s Cooking
What’s cooking – scarves of course. What a shock to the husband who is expecting something edible. This is why marriages to weavers require a special and particular type of partner. One that’s not surprised when they lift the lid of a steaming cooking pot to find a mass of woven woollen yarns. Not put out by the…
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Yet Again – With Blues
Deflected double weave has grabbed hold on my mind and loom. Now I’m warping up again in a blue/purple/green colourway. Although deflected double weave is based on a type of double weave structure, in this example it doesn’t actually weave 2 layers at any one time. The weave takes turns in each layer. It swaps position from…
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The Joy of Cutting Down
When I complete any woven textile I have mixed feelings. One is of excitement at the prospect of seeing the culmination of my work after the finishing process and the other a sense of loss; to the nice weaving rhythm which takes me a warp to build up. Of course, this sense of loss is only present…