Weaverly

At the Intersection of Bored and Audacious

The last of the many tied-on warps is finished.

It's a faux huck on 16 shafts. It repeats every 112 picks. Straight threading.

And here it is after cutting off and washing. Very scrunchy, highly textured. Click to enlarge.

After all that purple, I really welcomed some complementary orange at this morning's breakfast.

Now for a brand new warp. Here's the audacious part. I wanted to blend a 4-shaft overshot and an 8-shaft point twill, so that I could weave both of them on a 16-shaft warp. It was a fun exercise, one that kept me occupied for an entire day. After blending, it turned out that 4 of the shafts were not needed, but in order to better distribute the uneven numbers of heddles on the remaining shafts, I doubled some of the shafts, and came up with the following really strange threading:

Maybe some of you math wizards can explain to me why the blended drafts originally required only 12 shafts. Be that as it may, here is the new blended 16-shaft warp. Point twill and overshot. Check.

More audacity: my Christmas Cactus has produced a February blossom! 

Contortions

Here comes the sun. This is easy enough to see if you are standing in the right place.

But it gets challenging if you try to look up at the sky while in an upright position. Very risky, actually. It was worth it.

You can be a contortionist if you try to photograph the reverse side of the cloth as it approaches the cloth beam. This is not as risky, especially in a carpeted room, as you are closer to the floor and don't have as far to fall.

No contortions necessary when photographing the top side. More blended overshot and rosepath. 

In the Department of Books, I just finished reading The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. Moving, funny, surprising, suspenseful.

In Limbo

Hard to believe that on the morning of January Sixth I was talking about dishtowels. Then all h**l broke loose. 

Obsessively stitching. Can't keep still. 

Cleaning up the studio.

Gazing out the window.

Finally put on a new warp this morning. A little sample of a new blended draft. Rosepath and overshot. The overshot is an original draft, entitled LinenPants. On this 8-shaft threading one could weave rosepath, overshot, or plain weave. Imagine.