Weaverly

Waiting

It appears that we may have gotten lucky with the track of Hurricane Ian. At this point (Friday evening) it is tracking somewhat more to the east of us. We haven't lost power. Fingers crossed.

This is what the sky looked like yesterday at sundown. Check out that moon.

On the 8-shaft loom I am struggling with some possibly poor color choices in a 3-color interleaved warp. The jury's still out. Must wash & dry first. 

On the 4-shaft loom I came to the end of the jin warp. 

All seven towels have been hemmed & washed (what else do you do when you're waiting for weather?).

I rewarped with a warp I had wound several months ago, but in my haste I lost the cross. I'm going to try to rescue this warp. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm about 50% hopeful.

Good luck to all who have not been as fortunate with the weather. 

 

Jin Samples at a Block Party

The green jin warp has been cut off. Now I have samples from two different warps to hem and wash.

Meanwhile there's the trail to check out. Color inspiration resides here, and it's always changing.

Here are all the recent jin samples having a block party. The basic threading is the same, two blocks on 8 shafts. The wider blocks are jin, and the narrow blocks are double weave. This puts a nice DW selvedge on the edges, and allows for DW hems all across the width. The warp is 30/2 linen. The wefts are 16/1 linen and also 30/2 linen. Sett 36 ipi. 

In the Department of Books, I just finished reading Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett. Recommended.

 

More Jin

When the sample on the left was still on the loom, I thought the dark double weave stripes were too wide in proportion to the jin stripes, so after cutting off the first sample I resleyed the warp, dropping out 4 threads from each 8-end double weave section. The sample on the right is the result, with narrower double weave sections. After washing, here is the result.

Now I actually prefer the wider stripes! Furthermore, I'm not thrilled with the way the fabrics crinkle up with the singles weft, and I will redo these, using a 2-ply yarn as weft (same as warp).

An early morning walk at the gardens put me in a green mood.

I wound the second warp with dark and light green, with the double weave stripes in yellow. 

I made a few warping errors and had to add in three sections of yellow. Not to worry. 

All these yarns are 30/2 linen from LoftyFiber. 

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In the Department of Books, I have just finished reading Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras.