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Our March Weaver Spotlight is Kate from northern Maine! She used the clasped weft weaving technique demonstrated by Jane on the JST Online Guild Weaving lesson, Season 2 Episode 5 and combined it with the Log Cabin sample from Season 3 Episode 3. Overlay, overlay! You'll be inspired to try out this weaving technique after reading her blog :)
Clasped weft weaving is a fun technique that creates staggered picks or solid blocks of color that don’t travel selvedge to selvedge across a warp. It gives the weaver an opportunity to add more visual dimension and a certain “how did they do that?” element to their work.
Difficulty: Medium Find the full, free tutorial here- • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vO-XRhpUX0 Music by Epidemic Sound- https://share.epidemicsound.com/w6k71f
Links mentioned in this tutorial:Clasped Weft Beginner tutorial-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGw6w4-IRak&t=221sClasped Weft Triple-https://www.youtube.com...
The warp was a fine cotton mixed with some metallic yarns on a 2 shaft loom. It was already on the loom so there was no time spent on warpin...
I finally got back to my loom the other day. I managed to knock out just under a metre of this clasped weft with a diamond twill pattern. My goal is to get three metres of this, then do another three metres of white on white. Then, if it all goes to plan, I will…
Description: Learn to use the clasped weft technique for a unique twist on the classic houndstooth pattern! Clasped weft makes a unique irregular pattern. It looks difficult, but we’ll make…
Texture and color bouquet! Beautiful.
Buy 10/2 + 5/2 mercerized cotton yarn from Ashford that is great for heirloom quality weaving projects.
Narrow rows of black separate a clasped weft pattern, giving the eye some balance between static space and active space.
Margie Wetherald 4 layer double weave from Jennifer Moore’s book. Warp & Weft: Woven in Orlec 8/2 Sett is 96 (not a typo), which works out to a sett of 24 per layer Each layer exchange requires a different tie-up 5 inches wide
Just when you think you’ve tried everything in weaving, you come across something different, like Clasped Weft. Clasped weft can be a great “next step” for newer weavers with a few plain weave projects completed and who are ready for something a bit more adventurous. The cool thing about weaving clasped weft is...Read More
Watch as I use a hem stitch to secure the negative spaces on my woven tapestry. This technique will keep those empty spaces in place once the piece is cut off the loom! This tapestry will be available 5/1/23 in my Etsy shop.
This is a one hour video on how to start the flat top of a grad cap using the herringbone twill pattern. Dimensions 9" x 9". You will need 36 warps or strand...
I had this idea in mind, and it's finally coming to fruition. I wanted to do a striking piece, one that would stand out from the rest. So what I did was set my loom up for a lovely 2/2 diamond twill pattern using a neutral warp. But I wanted to do something different with…
In the last post I talked about the important relationship between warp and weft sizes when weaving tapestry. These questions are intimately connected to sett. Sett is most easily understood as the number of warp threads in a unit of measure. In the USA we use inches, in Europe you probably use centimeters. (Don't get me started on why the stubborn United States never switched to metric. Yes, Europe and Canada, your way is better.) So think about your loom. If you hold a ruler up to your warp and count the number of warp ends that occur in one inch, you will know your sett. Like this.
Last week's post generated a couple of questions: one about about the clean edges of the tapestry doodles and another about how I weave in the ends as I go. Rosemary kindly pointed Janet to my f...
Deflected Double Weave Scarves
