Weaverly

Laundry Report

The turned taqueté scarf after washing, as promised:

The draft looks like this (and when I get around to it I will be uploading it to Handweaving.net):

Switching gears, I am doing some experiments with deflected double weave on eight shafts, reducing the color segments to two threads each instead of four:

Showing face and reverse of the first sample, click to embiggen:

And here are the same samples after machine washing and tumbling dry:

Tech stuff: 16/2 cottolin, warp and weft, purple and pale green, 40 epi/ppi, 4 ends per dent (2 purple & 2 pale green) in each dent of a 10-dent reed, 8 shafts.

A Day (Or Two) In the Life

This was actually yesterday. Today it's gray and threatening.

I spread the turned taqueté (aka jin) scarf, recently completed, out on the grass for a snapshot. At that point it hadn't been washed yet. It will soften up a bit after that's done. 

Eight shafts, silk noil warp, handspun wool weft. I've been asked about the draft. It's original, and at some point I'll upload it to handweaving.net. Stay tuned. And another word about that warp. It seemed very weak when I did the tug & snap test, but I decided to go for broke and use it anyway. And you know what? Not a single broken warp in the entire process! Small miracles.

Yesterday morning's moon.

And today first signs of fall. It was inevitable. But where did the summer go? What a year. 

I keep saying I am luckier than most. It's true. I remind myself of that fact at least twenty times a day. 

And now I think I'll go wind another warp.

Hemming

You may recall that the current warp was tied on to another, and was woven in double plain weave as in this post and also as Jin.

Jin is another name for turned tacqueté. It is one of the many structures that can be woven on the same warp setup as double weave: two colors, warped end and end. I wove a length of Jin at the end of the warp, enough for three small dishtowels. 

I'll be tying another warp on to this one when color inspiration strikes. Meanwhile, I've washed and hemmed the towels.

Somehow I see similar patterning wherever I look these days.