Category: Warping
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Painting colours with weave
Weaving a balanced plain weave cloth.
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Warping in Isolation!
How are you going? What are you creating? What are you reading? Try warping.
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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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Just warping
The warping process is a beautiful one! I know some don’t agree with this but it can be very meditative and affirming in a slightly bizarre way. The way the yarns follow each other in a precise path around the warping board pegs, ordered by a cross and creating a design of the imagination but in…
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The tale of a warp
Learning to create your own warps has always been an integral part of the weaving process. And although the Saori looms have the unique pre-wound warps, there may come a day when you just need your own mix of colours, styles of yarn or different texture. Some people find the whole process meditative and Saori…
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Starting the winter warps and weaving
Winter is nearly here so the studio is busier as people see more time for creating and the possibility of being indoors. Even though the winter in Old Bar is the very best of weather for getting about it still has a crisp air at times, making it the perfect season. My week was filled…
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Warping for Dummies?
I haven’t done many dummy warps but my Saori loom presented a nice opportunity for its use last week. I’d come to the end of the original black warp and had dyed another cotton one to beam. Simply tying on the new warp on seemed so sensible to me. I didn’t use a weavers knot although…
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Warp Hack
In computer terms a hack is a way of overriding a problem. It doesn’t solve the problem elegantly or ‘properly’ but it works. I’ve recently had to discover a hack for the annoying skype code that pops up when you type a phone number in html. I’ve discovered that it is some sort of add-on to IE…