Okay, here’s how it’s going, after a weekend FILLED with learning experiences. Friday night I took Frances the Dorset loom to project night, with my measured warp.  This is how I measured my warp: That’s 5.5 yards of warp, in the lavender that I decided not to include.  The colors I did use are on the right, ready to sley on. (Sley = thread through the slots in the reed, which is what you beat the weft into place with.  I know, vocabulary.) I only got through the sleying and the heddle threading on Friday night. This is mostly because … Continue reading Treble Fib Shawl

After you all glazed over due to arithmetic overload in the last post, I redid my color test.  I like this one better – it has no lavender, though the rose looks sort of mauvey in this scan. Question:  What was the attitude in period towards randomization of color design?  In Arch History 2022, I learned that during the High Gothic/Renaissance, the ideal was Mathematical Perfection, so I would extrapolate from that towards repetitive stripes, rather than randomized ones.  But I’m willing to be wrong. – Does anyone know about extant fabrics with uneven and non-repeating stripes?  My modern mind … Continue reading Gifted wool shawl – warping on

I did a bit of design work at MGT on my first real weaving project, a double-woven shawl out of various skeins of worsted wool that have been gifted to me.  Here’s the colors. I have approx. 408 yards of the taupe, 322 yards of lavender, 364 yards of rose, and 945 yards of rust. They are all 8 wraps/inch, but because I want the shawl to drape nicely, I think I’m going to weave at a sett of 4 ends/inch, remembering that double-woven fabric cuts its warp sett in half… Maybe I want a 36" wide shawl.  In that … Continue reading Gifted wool shawl