Friday, February 14 2025

Color Gamp Draft

Since the post on color has gotten a lot of comments and positive feedback, particularly asking for beginners to post, I thought I’d post the draft I developed as a first project to exercise my “new” 12s Bergman loom. I posted a picture of the loom dressing in process yesterday. This will be the fifth

Tie-up Test

This is our first effort at tying up the new to us Bergman 12 harness / 14 treadle loom. We tied up treadles 1 and 14 as tabby, so 1 lifts the odd numbered harnesses and drops the evens, and 14 lifts the evens and drops the odds. Mesmerizing to watch!

Lovely Bergman

New (to me- it was built in 1936 and has been, uhm, well loved) loom ! It’s a 12 shaft Bergmam. 12 shafts! Having a hard time imagining what that means. It’s half assembled and back to back with my 50 yr old Norwood 4 shaft.

Warping claw

Warping for new napkins.

M#ths

Reaching the end of a three plus month eradication effort in my studio that started when I pulled out samples to re-photograph for a re-release of their patterns, and found three of them had moth holes. Yarn stash has now been thoroughly examined for bugs, treated or tossed as appropriate, and is hermetically sealed into

First Draft

Here’s the improved draft for the towels I just finished. I promised it back when I started the project, and now that it’s ended I finally have put it together. If anyone wants a .wif I uploaded it to the files section.

First Towels

Four twill towels and some plainweave yardage I think will be cut into washcloths. Haven’t decided. There are threads that were skipped, treadling errors, and selvedge issues. I am choosing not to care. They are squishy and soft and beautifully textured. I made cloth. After a spot of loom repair yesterday I started threading a

Off the Loom!!

’nuff said.

New Happy Place

Weaving is becoming my relaxed happy place. I wish looms were portable. I need to restore my knitting mojo.

Learning to Weave

Here’s the latest few repeats of the project I posted last week. Floating selvedges and improved beating and throwing has fixed the edges. I’m slowly getting the movement patterns fixed and beginning to pick up speed. The last white repeat is essentially square, with an even length on the warp and weft threads. Thanks to

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