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Well, it turned out to be BRILLIANT. Yes, it did. And I am soooo happy. It saved us so much time and work. Pulled through a...
Posts about Double Weave written by evasweaving
The Fine Threads Study Group at Complex Weavers has a sample and study exchange each year. As a member of this group I'm happy to share my study for this year in this post. As I was browsing through the samples from the 1990 Complex Weavers Swatch Exchange, I came across Verda Elliott's sample and…
Profile draft
4 shaft weaving draft
What the heck??? « Weaving A Gem Of A Life
For more than a hundred years all kinds of weaves have been found with the handloom, the Jacquard loom, the drawloom including " Taquet...
While weaving a pair of warp rep (warp-faced rep weave) runners, I was already imagining weaving another one. So I did try a variation and a different color. Then I thought it would be interesting to weave another variation for a belt. That turned out to be a lot of fun. These are the projects that…
Wat is een schijnpatroon? Wat is shadowweave
An 8-shaft draft for weaving bright and cheerful cotton mug rugs in many harmonious variations. Includes warp plan and the draft in two formats.
It seems as though lately I've been doing a lot of very complex designing and weaving, and when that feeling becomes too strong, I gift myse...
Woven scarves, blankets and journals
I decided I couldn't wait anymore for the new reeds to arrive so I pulled out the 12 dpi reed from the 24" Ashford and got started. First...
Basic 4 colour drawdown I have finished the design for the next piece - 70cm x 70cm panel. The design is called 'A Sea of Smiles' and is based on a drawing of smiling lips I made in Photoshop. It's going to be the decorative 3-part, centre piece wall hanging for the new studio room using the basic design, it's lift plan inversion and the inversion with an additional high-contrast weft colour to highlight a row of 'smiles' It's inversion with the contrast colour Its a 24 shaft echo 2 double weave. The design line generated in Photoshop was networked to create the parallel threading - i.e echo 2 with an interval of 12. Warp is Plum and White whilst weft is Black with White Gold. All in 8/2 Tencel,840 ends @ 13epcm. Though designed on 24 shafts, ends 95-167 (which represents the second block from the right, a block using only shafts 1-4) are actually threaded onto shafts 25-28 and assigned their48 treadle tie up plus an extra 4 treadles of 3/1 twill. This allows me to choose to weave a third layer, using just this block, in a fourth weft colour - it produces a quasi-overshot block. The placing of this block will make one single focus point in the design (the weaving software doesn't allow me to show this) Options for overall colour scheme. Black with Burgundy and below it Black with Moss Green.
