Archive for the ‘Weaving’ Category
When I am attending a workshop, I like to use my weaving.
Log Cabin…….
Shadow weave…..
Sorry, the title is Dutch! Maybe the best translation would be ‘Area in area’…but I am not certain. The pattern is a design made by Ineke Elsinga
Several years ago I dyed some colour variations, in green and red!
I was lucky, I had a sample of the colours I wanted. Then I calculated the amount I needed and dyed the wool.
The result was what I hoped for. Perfect !
It is a Summer / Winter design. I used linnen for the tabby.
During weaving I thought: ‘what will happen when I wash the finished cloth.
Wool in combination with linnen !!
But nothing happened.
It was nice and it stayed nice.
The next part of the ‘optical weaving’ workshop, was ‘Shadow Weave’.
I am not the sampling type, but to my surprise I did enjoy the weaving.
Log cabin and Shadow weave was done on the same warp, with the same threading. Hurrah…
I have my own preferences of the different patterns in combination with the colours.
The photo’s are not very good, sorry. They look rather dull!
Linda Wilson gave an ‘optical weaving’ workshop. I do like that effect and joined with pleasure.
The pattern does “jump out”, but that really is an illusion.
First I want to show you the colours I choose. It is 8/2 cotton.
It was important, they were contrasting ones. The photo was changed into black and white,
that was a great help!
From each photo the top cones were used for the warp. The weft was varied!
During weaving I experienced, ‘Summer’ and ‘Winter’ showed little difference. See for yourself.
A pity!
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A long time ago a present was given for my birthday. It was a colour design to weave my horoscope shawl.
The design was made bij Bonnie Tarses.
Being optimistic I intended to dye the yarn that was needed. However time went by and I thought; if you want to weave it just dive into your stash, otherwise it will take another 5 years.
Mercerized cotton.
Winding the warp was a challenge. The thread colours changed frequently.
However the result is beautiful!
Bonnie’s advice was to weave tabby, but no colour advice for the weft was given.
I decided, after several try outs, to use the warp colours!
400 threads became 100 fringes.
A glass bead was added and 4 fringes were braided and the result was 25 fringes!
Approximately 35 years ago I wove a cloth. The colours were modern 🙂 Dark brown and orange (and off white)!! When I finished weaving…I could not decide what to do with it.
After all those years I thought ‘enough is enough’.
I threw it in the washing machine and dryer and knew it would extremely felt.
A coat it was ment to be.
The lining was bought and the pattern chosen.
A zipper was used for the front.
The buttons are only for show.
Nice wearing because it feels warm and keeps the wind out, but ‘retro’ it is 🙂
I frequently take a look at the website of Ineke Elsinga. Visiting I noticed a pattern called ”walking waffle’ (literally translated from Dutch language’). Wow this…I wanted to have. I like optic illusions in weaving. Buying the pattern was easy done.
The warp is as straight as it always is (we can’t change that :-)), but every weft changes 70 times and then you start with the first weft again. The waffle really walks 🙂
When I took it of my loom and washed the cloth, I was so happy. It was beautiful.
I almost regretted it was woven for lining a bag from the grocery store.
Then I had to use my pair of scissors 🙁 I warn you!!! Sewing was a hell of a job!!
This one is my favorite.
I used the sequence of the warp colours in the weft. However I mixed the colours to the new colour. Like this…pink bloc! alternating pink/yellow bloc! yellow bloc! alternating yellow/light green bloc! light green bloc! and so on…and so on.
For the weft I used light green. The long floats are very vulnerable.
I used light blue for the weft.
All three look good, but next time I will use 14 threads per cm.
Of course one weaves alternating purple floats too.
In the meantime two of them have moved to a new owner.
Shawl number two from my ‘iridiscent colours’ project. During weaving something went wrong.
Do you want to read about it? Click on page and scroll down.
This mosaic weaving was on my ‘todo’ list for several years.
It was about time to get started……
Thin threads are my favorite and I like bright colours.
The length of the warp is for three shawls.
It was a joy to use my warping wheel again.
(Winding and beaming the warp)
Twelve threads per cm…..enough or to few….time will tell.
The design with the different brown hues and white, is choosen by intuition.
It’s a plain weave. I like shawls to complete my outfit.
This one is for spring.
Want to know more…. I did it! Today I finished my poncho!
My sister-in-law permitted me to use the model of her poncho. So nice of her! Thank you Loeska 😉
The first time I saw her wearing it, I envied her, you know 🙂
The colours are different though.
Turquoise and purple are my favorite colours and I used red to brighten it up, but I already mentioned
that in one of my previous blogposts.
The fringes form a nice band at the bottom….(the way I braided them)…. I think 😉
The collar is knitted separately and sewed with the machine to the neck-piece
I never wove with such a thick thread in warp and weft. Two per cm.
The total width of my loom is used, 120 cm.
It’s just a simple plain weave / tabby. The colours are the most important in this cloth.
I have been busy making a warp for my poncho.
The yarn I intended to use was very thin, compared to my own spun weft.
What to do….I decided to make a cabled yarn. I had never done that…..a real challenge it was.
Then I dyed the yarn and now I am threading the loom. First step done……
I finished the spinning of this ‘new blend’ several months ago! Dyeing was the second step.
Purple and turquoise are favorite colours of mine. The red is to brighten it up ;-)!!
I will weave the poncho and these skeins are for the weft.
The warp, I will dye the same and while weaving the same colours will find each other or mix!
A bit like this shawl….
Today was the last session. This workshop was hard work, but very rewarding.
The technique was developed and copywrited by my tutor Marian Stubenitsky.
It really is amazing …..
A challenge it was. Step by step the pattern showed.
It is hard to catch the iridescent effect by photo.
The weft colour is petrol.
If you want to view all postings of this workshop, please click on the tag ‘iridescent’ at the right…..
This shawl is the first result of my ‘iridescent colours’ workshop.
For this shawl I used four shafts, four colours.
The effect is the interaction of the colours and it varies with the angle you look at it.
This technique is developed and copywrited by Marian Stubenitsky
I needed 8 colours and had to put them in line harmoniously. It took a lot of time.
I changed, and changed, but finally it looked good.
To be sure I made blends of two colours.
Time to make the warp. I lined the colours the way I needed them.
The threads went over the table……..
…through the reed of my warping wheel to arrange them as parallel as possible…..
then to my warping mill. I used my warping paddle for the second time.
432 threads………
Making the cross went fine.
Bundles of 10, easy counting…..
Tadah…..ready for the loom
