Category: Saori
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Saori – Textile Art of the People
Weaving banners is really the ultimate textile art with Saori. Weavers and community groups can work together, never have woven before, be shy, not consider themselves artists or just looking for a day doing something different. Saori Worcester in the US have produced an amazing banner project that propelled itself into supporting local school students to learning…
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Tencel warping
Working with 2/10 tencel and a textured cotton warp rewarded me be a lovely mix ready for threading. It’s 13 metres long which is about the extent of the Saori warping board that I used. Threading it all up at my table then clipping it onto the loom made it easy, as usual, and the warp…
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More Designs for the Body
This is my newest woven garment – which I’m very happy with. Basically a ‘vest’ style it only required 3.3 metres @ 33 cms wide. Wool, mohair, cotton and silk/stainless steel were used. The silk/stainless steel didn’t do its usual job of ‘elasticizing’ the woven width as the wool shrunk to meet its width and now…
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Art Yarns vs Weave Spontaneity
Working with 2 shaft tactile weaves in the Saori philosophy has re-ignited my other passion for spinning. Well, anything to do with textiles is in the passion basket anyway. Wooldancer and EweGiveMetheKnits have given me the push with their friendly and inspiring blogs. Then co-incidently, as things do, the Online guild is hosting a blending workshop with…
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Almost zero waste design
This constitutes the total waste from the garment I just designed. Almost zero waste! Some other shapes that I could have cut off to seam became a re-enforcement for the garment. This type of weave is very forgiving with the machine stitching and either straight or zig zag could be used. This is the weave…
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Starting with purple
Firstly a very happy and healthy new year to all my readers. A new year seems to be a time of reflection and new beginnings and it’s a good opportunity to get motivated about something entirely different. My new studio is just about complete and it is wonderful. It is light and airy which I…
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Egypt and Japan interlace in Australia
Weaving underway with the narrow warp I decided to use tapestry techniques to emulate the rounded shapes of the potatoes. I’m weaving lozenge shapes to get the feeling and using a little more of the contrasting orange that the imagery suggests so I can get a stronger effect. Historically this type of weave was explored best by…
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Woolly Saori for the Woolly Season & Flipboard
The woolly season is here, so I’ve gone wild with woolly saori weave. This image shows the ‘unbaked’ product straight off the loom. The real transformation of weave is in the finishing. So that’s next. I used Noro Kureyon as the thick wool weft on the standard back cotton Saori warp, combined with pieces of…
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Wiggly Waggly Weave
Being unplanned, unorganised and just letting your fingers create weave is developing into an enjoyable habit.This saori scarf is probably one of my best weaves…ever. I know that sounds quite a claim but I really love how it has turned out and will get a further completed photo shortly. It is open, airy and has…