Season 3 Kits
Pushing the Boundaries of PW
Season 3 gave us the freedom to create amazing cloth by using different ways of exploring Plain Weave. When I travelled through India with Maiwa, I was amazed at the beautiful cloth that the weavers created using “simple” Plain Weave and lots of colour! A number of the PW structures we explored in Season 3 were inspired by the magic of India. So many of you loved weaving these “samples” and we thought that now you have more School of Weaving under your belts, you might enjoy weaving them again – the easy way – using a kit! Need some help weaving this fabulous kits? Take advantage of the 7-day FREE trial featured below, then you can watch and learn more about the kits you have chosen to weave.
Denting
In this first sample from Season 3 we are using our reed to create a wonderful lacy looking fabric in Plain Weave. In the video I use 16/2 cotton for the weft and in the final piece I used 30/2 silk, which may be purchased separately.
Things we learn:
- to weave with finer threads
- dented fabrics need to have a firm sett… they are not woven on an open sett. Our reed and our beat create the open space
- we open our minds to adapting our weaving technique, i.e. – throwing two picks to create resistance, then tap, tap, tap
- we learn to control our beater
- how to really visualize negative space
- how to bring gradation work over from Colour and Design and overlay it onto a new idea
- that we can mix cotton and silk.
Denting Kit includes one cone each of Black, Charcoal, Dark Grey and Light Grey in 16/2 cotton.
Cramming and Denting
This sample is all about using multiple setts in one piece of cloth. We learn how to adapt our sleying and beating to create beautiful fabrics and we do it all inLinen 🙂
Things we learn:
- linen is awesome
- we use our reed to create all the patterning in the cloth by having different sleyings
- we learn to identify negative space
- we are in charge of our beater and we have to beat each section appropriately based on what we want
- we can mix silk and linen.
Cramming and Denting Kit includes one cone each of spruce, olive, green tea and teal 40/2 linen.
Log Cabin
Oh my goodness, I love Log Cabin sooooooooo much. Log Cabin can be inserted into any existing graphic that you have. Imagine if we took some of the samples from last season, like Parrot for instance and we overlaid Log Cabin on top of that graphic. Or…what if we built Log Cabin into our Plaid graphic. Or…what if we brought those repetitive sequences that we learned in the Colour & Weave Gamp and overlaid them on top of our Log Cabin……what if, what if, what if…..those 2 little words have driven my study of simple patterning for decades.
Things we learn:
- inserting Log Cabin into any existing graphic
- thinking of plain weave in terms of block weaves
- making Log Cabin 3 D
- making it symmetrical
- making it symmetrical and adding a frame
- the importance of odd-numbered end stripes (i.e. 3, 5, 7…)
- tucking our tails at the colour change and splicing those tails so they don’t show.
Each Log Cabin Kit contains two cones of white 8/4 cotton, one cone each of charcoal and cherry.
Weft Faced
It is so good to weave this sample after the last sample because we bring over those colour and weave effects from Log Cabin and pour them into Weft Faced Plain Weave. They are definitely connected. We do branch out into Twill and other tie-ups and we master the ideas around weaving on opposites.
Things we learn:
- how your sett controls your weft coverage, not necessarily your beater
- colour is controlled by weaving on opposites
- weaving with one shuttle and two shuttles
- we bring sequencing from Colour & Weave into the game
- floating selvedges are beneficial
- 14 possible tie-ups on 4 shafts
- division of space still rocks it all.
Weft Faced Kit includes one cone of 12/4 linen and however many skeins of Quebecoise you order to play with. Two skeins will make approximately four hot pads.
Warp Faced
This time around we’re going to have a peek at warp-faced fabrics. We’re going to sett our warp threads so closely together that the weft will be nothing more than a burrowing worm searching for a selvedge to pop out at. 🙂 We will learn how to obtain different colour effects and how sett controls the success of warp-faced fabrics. We’ll adapt our shuttle throwing technique yet again to get fabulous selvedges with the greatest of ease. And, we’ll learn how to hemstitch on honking dense warps without losing our minds.
Things we will learn:
- how to obtain different colour effects
- how sett controls success of warp faced
- how to get nice selvedges easy peasy
- how to weave Repp using thick and thin
- how to bring repetitive sequences into our thick and thin
- how to hemstitch on honking dense warps 🙂
Warp Faced Kit includes one cone each of 8/4 black, white, pale limette, peacock. One cone black mop cotton (you will also need a bobbin of 8/2 black but I’m hoping you’ll have some in your stash).
Simple Collapse Weave
In this episode, we learn how to use active yarns (shrinkers) and inactive yarns (not so shrinky) to create highly textured fabric. This time our perfectly wonderful Plain Weave is woven at a ridiculously open sett in 30/2 silk and 18/2 merino. We continue to push our technique to another level….learning how to control that crazy open sett and stabilize the fabric during the fulling process. If you loved Denting, and Cramming & Denting, I’m pretty sure you’re going to love this one too. I know I sure do.
Things we learn:
- how to use shrinkable yarns and non-shrinkable yarns (active and inactive) to create three-dimensional fabric
- how to weave with a very open sett and control it
- how to manage the distortion that will occur in the weaving
- how to full and finish your silk and merino scarves
- how to deal with your hemstitching.
Simple Collapse Weave Kit includes 2 -100g skeins of 30/2 Bombyx Silk & 4 – 50g hanks of 18/2 merino wool.
Simple Supplementary Warp
In this episode we’re going to add a little pizzazz to our Plain Weave warps by adding supplementary warp threads right into the warp when we make it. I always think of supplementary warps threads as simply extra threads that come down from the sky and sit on our warps. They aren’t an inherent or necessary part of the Plain Weave fabric…they are just extra threads that can be woven into the ground cloth, float on top of the ground cloth, or underneath it, depending on what YOU want them to do. They are fabulous for enhancing our graphic with extra lines and texture and, they do not have to live on a separate beam, honestly truly! 🙂
Things we learn:
- how to add supplementary warp threads to a Plain Weave warp
- how to warp those extra threads in with the base warp
- that you don’t always need a supplementary warp beam
- how to manage the tension on the supplementary warp with a simple rod
- how to manipulate those supplementary warps threads via the tie-up.
Simple Supplementary Warp Kit includes one cone each of 16/2 cotton in Fuchshia, Purple, Raspberry, Cayenne and 1 skein of 20/2 silk in Lime Light.
Supplementary Warp & Weft
Dr. Seuss could have written a children’s book about it….Oh the places you’ll go!
Our pasta this time around is a very fine Bambu yarn and the sauce is 18/2 Merino with two colour options to choose from. The supplementary warp threads are interspersed within our ground warp in 5 stripes. As always you’ll be given a gazillion things to play with and explore. In the end we have the option of taking this fabric to the sink to give it a heavy fulling and create yet another layer…this time collapsing it.
Things we learn:
- how to overlay the idea of Collapse Weave on supplementary warps
- how to thread supplementary warps a new way
- how to weave with fine bambu at a very open sett
- how to introduce the idea of supplementary weft
- how to create 2 completely different sides on a 4 shaft fabric.
Supplementary Warp and Weft Kit includes: two cones of 12 gauge bambu in carob and one skein each of 18/2 merino in claret, copper and raspberry OR two cones of 12 gauge bambu in carob and one skein each of 18/2 merino in sage and teal.
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