The recalcitrant warp from my pevious post became too twisted a short time after I began weaving.There wasn’t much I could do about it and I sadly had to cut it all down and wind off the warp of 11 metres. It is certainly wasteful but more frustrating to continue so sometimes you just have to cut your losses and get on with it.So with encouragement from my husband, I made myself immediately wind up a new warp with only 19 epi rather than 72 epi and get it on the loom. It’s also a great excuse to set up my new fly shuttle and get weaving.
I had alot of 6/1 wool with nice colours so decided to make a couple of woollen blankets in a standard twill weave design.
Part of what is holding me back is the growing demand that everyone has to develop their own unique patterns to weave with and the need to weave in new ways. I can’t always do this all the time and look to patterns of the past, guiltily. When I first started weaving this wasn’t an issue and I could weave all sorts of patterns and experiments using patterns I’d found in magazines and books gradually finding my own way of designing by standing on the shoulders of others. If it was up to me to think up the weave process or a pattern beyond plain weave it would never have been invented!
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