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.
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