I can’t get over how every little thing I do presents stacks of opportunities to learn. So verily cool.
These are the remnants of linen (the last batch, bwahaha!) I ordered from Historic Enterprises, and also the aglets (aka ‘chapes’) from them.
(Lavena suggested that I make my own aglets, and I like that notion, but I need some NOW, and I prefer to see how someone else invented the wheel before I waste my time chipping stone.)
So the two things I have learned right away from my $22 are:
- How the heck do they get relatively new linen to be SO SOFT?!? I can’t convey properly via digital medium how soft and wonderful this fabric is. It’s a good thing, because it’s destined to be garb for Daan, and he’s still a bit of a baby about his fabric textures.
- See that basketweave? Every thread is a color change. The reverse side is exactly the
same. I want to weave something like this. Gorgeous stuff – too bad
there’s only a yard of it.
You can get an effect similiar to that basketweave by doing a “log cabin” weave. It’s the simplest of shadow weaves. A shadow weave is where you have alternate light and dark warp threads, and also alternate light and dark weft threads. Every now and then you’ll have two of the same thread in a row–which forms the pattern. For example–when you’re weaving the log cabin you’ll be weaving light/dark/light/dark and you’ll be getting half of the basket weave. Then at a regular interval you weave two lights or two darks in a row–and the other half of the basket weave shows up. Very cool to see (hard to describe–ask your weaving friends).
–Ann