I'm Alice Schlein, a weaver in South Carolina. A few times a week I write about my weaving, Network Drafting, Amalgamation, bread baking, my morning walks, and whatever else strikes my fancy. Thanks for stopping by! Comments are welcome.

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  • Weave Brocade On Your Rigid Heddle Loom
    Acquire new rigid heddle skills in a class for intermediate rigid heddle weavers or intrepid beginners. We will focus on indirect warping, the creation and use of string heddles, and the pickup stick, while learning to weave brocade motifs in supplementary wefts on a plain weave ground. Intensive three-hour class, eight weeks. Jan. 13 - March 9, 2020 at OLLI, Furman University.

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  • Amalgamation: Double Your Dobby
    24-pages of text, diagrams, and color photographs, in pdf format for download. Create drafts for 8 or more shafts in half-drop or brick arrangements which would normally require twice the number of shafts. Related to network drafting, this is a technique for intermediate or advanced weavers with dobby looms or multi-shaft table looms. Includes guidelines for amalgamation with three current weaving applications. View on a computer, or print out one copy for your own use. USD$21. via PayPal. Email aschlein[at]att[dot]net and indicate your preferred email address for PayPal.
  • Lampas for Shaft Looms
    Class notes from Complex Weavers Seminars 2016, newly revised and formatted, in pdf form for download. A review of methods for designing your own lampas fabrics for treadle looms, table looms, and dobbies, eight shafts and above. Over 90 color photos of actual fabrics with drafts. Includes info on pickup lampas and a lampas bibliography. View on a computer, or print out one copy for your own use. USD$21. via PayPal. Email aschlein[at]att[dot]net for ordering info.
  • A Crepe Is Not Just a Pancake
    52 pages of text, b&w and color diagrams, and drafts for multishaft tradle & dobby looms. Many color photos of actual cloth. Methods for drafting your own crepe weaves. Annotated bibliography. Pdf available for immediate download. $21. USD. Payment by PayPal. Email me at aschlein[at]att[dot]net for payment instructions.
  • Echo Weave
    Based on the 1996 article in Weaver's, Issue 32. With brand new diagrams and high resolution scans of original fabrics. Pdf available for immediate download. $7. USD. Payment by PayPal. Email me at aschlein[at]att[dot]net for payment instructions.

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March 03, 2013

A Puddle of Dishtowels

Did you ever see a puddle of dishtowels? Here's one. I just cut these off the loom and while waiting for the washing machine, they begged a photo.

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There's a funny alteration going on here (as in funny/unusual). Before cutting the towels off the loom, I glued and taped the end of the weaving to secure it…

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This is part of my new plan of never ever again rethreading this loom, just tyeing on new warps to old behind the heddles (to save my back). However, I wanted to add an additional threading repeat of straight draw on either side of this warp, to widen the cloth from approximately 16" to 18". Toward that goal, I wound two mini warps of 40 ends each…

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…and inserted a lease stick in the plain weave sheds, behind the heddles, then added the two new mini-warp chains on either side…

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…and if all goes well, I'll thread and sley an additional repeat on either side, secure it to the breast beam in front, then cut off the whole megillah near the warp beam (because this warp is nearly at its end), then beam a new warp, tie it to the old warp, and maybe in less time than it took to tell you about it, I'll be weaving again. That's the plan.

 

Posted at 01:57 PM in Weaving |

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