Posts about Turned Taquete written by iowaweaver

I am slowly cleaning out my studio, going through my yarn, some of which has been on the shelves for literally more than a decade. We plan to pull up stakes next year and move to be near the grandchildren (yay!), and moving every last little cone of yarn doesn't really make sense. To that…

Posts about Turned Taquete written by iowaweaver

(This blog post was originally published March 17, 2014 on my first blog site, which is no longer in existence.) So I've been moving quite slowly in the weaving department. A lot of life changes are happening Chez Iowaweaver. The husband retired at the end of 2013. My own retirement looms (ha! a pun!) at…

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Ravelry is responsible for a lot of inspiration, not just for knitters and crocheters, but especially for weavers. When I came across Missio...

I've always been intrigued with this design. I found it in the book A Handweaver's Source Book: A Selection of 146 Patterns from the Laura M. Allen Collection, edited by Marguerite Porter Davison. It is the first pattern in the book, appearing on page 12. This pattern collection differs from most in that the draft…

About two years ago I blogged about taking an overshot pattern called Jitterbug and converting it to an 8 harness Turned Taquete weaving draft. You can read all about that here. I don't know why my mind wandered back to that, but I started wondering about how it would work on 4 harnesses. In her article…

Upper lambs (on top) hang from the shafts & lower lambs (below) connect to the treadles & hang from the Yorks.

A Victorian-era truncheon. Never one to use a scalpel when a truncheon will do, fellow Plainfield blogger and Board of Ed presi...

Ca fait un moment que j'ai envie de me remettre au tissage mais je n'avais pas envie de dépenser une fortune pour un métier à tisser A...

I hope everyone had a good holiday and isn't too tuckered out after all the festivities. On my to-do list for January: a blog post about my latest batch of Turned Taquete dish towels. I decided on colors reminiscent of the desert, or clay pots (or something), so I called them Desert Sands. I did…

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a set of mini rugs using the al'ouerjan warping method. This project was kind of amazing for me. For the first time I felt completely settle...

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