Category: Weaving
Mis-Thread
Hey look! A new (to me) way to mis-thread!
Loom Restoration FAIL
EDIT: Decision made: based on input from folks familiar with the 1999 LeClerc computer dobby, I am not going to attempt to restore the dobby. If anyone could make use of the parts, let me know. I have restored enough old machines to know how hard it can be to keep them going! I hate
Color Change Best Practices
Speak to me of best practices for winding warps with frequent color changes. Over the summer I wove a color gamp, which had changes every couple inches. I made those changes by tying the threads each individually around a peg on the side of the board below the first peg, stopping and starting, so two
Surprise Loom!
A Northwest loom came up for sale yesterday, just after I was looking at the workshop schedule for Laura Fry’s event and realized I needed a workshop loom. So, this happened.
Testing wefts
10/2 blue weft on the bottom, 8/2 and then 8/2 doubled on top.
Magen David?
tried doubling the weft thread to see if the pattern is nicer. I think so maybe?
Happy Thanksgiving!!
New warp ready to thread on the recently restored Bergman 12s. Really looking forward to seeing how this loom performs after its tune-up! This is a test warp for a draft that will hopefully become the basis for a tallit. My plan is to have bands of stars with a blue weft on a white
Feline Supervision
Just finished tying fringe and the cat has already claimed the gamp. I can’t pick it up to look at it. Oh, well.
Done and DONE!
And DONE with the pattern weave. Will still be making a plainweave one before cutting off the warp, but that goes fast.
Making Cloth
Just finished the greyscale weft, and moving on to colors!
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