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Here is a really fun website if you love tartans
https://houseoftartan.co.uk/interactive/weaver/
I have used this site a lot when I design tartan blankets. Have fun playing with this
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I’m replying to myself as I somehow missed adding text. I LOVED this episode– the colour exploration was amazing and working with Jane’s silk was a dream. The shawl (right) is light as a feather and I’m anxious to weave another. The guild just gets better and better.
Judy
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Those are delightful, mbartio! I can see signs of the rest of this year’s samples in your work with Plaid!
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Hi Mary,
I wash everything I weave. For those scarves you just them in the sink in warm water with a little dish soap. Gently like any fine piece of fabric. Don’t wring them, let them drip dry draped over a rod and then press. I do this to the silk scarf in Season 1, Episode 10.
Easy Peasy 🙂
Jane
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Well I really stepped out of my comfort zone with the colors I chose! Thank you for giving me the courage to do so! Learned so much in these pieces!
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I wanted to weave tea towels for an upcoming wedding shower and as the groom has a Scottish background and I had just finished watching episode 6 I decided to do them in plaid and variations on plaid. I got the thread count for their family plaid from the Scottish Register of Tartans-LochNess 2. ( I didn’t like the look of LochNess 1) I had to adapt it a bit to fit the tea towel. One I wove the plaid in plain weave, then in twill as a traditional tartan would be woven. One I wove in just the blue so it is just a striped towel. Then I had fun doing a striping sequence
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Bobbie, your shawl is just beautiful! Thank you for revealing your sett and colors. I decided I’d do a shawl when Jane showed some earlier, but I was chicken to jump into silk, and decided to try bamboo and cotton first. Now I’m regretting it a bit. Had you woven with silk before?
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I am still having fun weaving boucle towels, so there are a few. I tried a silk scarf this time. I don’t love it, but I still think it’s kind of cool. I am definitely trying more things than I ever would have attempted on my own. I am still a beginner, but am becoming a more confident beginner by being a part of this guild.
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Does anyone have any advice or good ideas on how to do the maths when dividing the colours to fit into a particular width? i.e. I have five different colours that I want to fit into a 38″ wide weave…i know that I don’t want all the colours to be the same width, Fibonacci design..but how to work it easily would be a great help?
Debbie U.K.
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Hi Debbie,
There’s so many ways you could approach this with Fibonacci. Jane’s blog posted today is about Fibonacci & division of space, perfect timing! https://janestaffordtextiles.com/blog/design-for-weavers-fibonacci-division-of-space/
Simplest way, thinking of the Fibonacci numbers in units, each unit (number) has a value of 2″
1=2″, 2=4″, 3=6″, 5=10″, 8=16″. That gives you a total of 38″. Now that just happens to add to 38 which you wanted.
But if you wanted 40″ wide, just as an example and with your last 2″ leftover, you can divide those threads equally between each of the 5 colours and add them to each section, if you’re off by a thread or two, well close is good 😉
If you can, reviewing the episode on Fibonacci will help to give you more ideas.
Hope this helps!
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Finally finished my Plaid sample…used colours from my stash, put on a short warp, did 2 towels and a shawl. Although the warp was short I tried to squeeze as much Jane lessons out of it as I could, division of space in 2, fibonacci, sequencing, replaced the stripes, opened the sett, clasped weft. Shawl is sett at 12 epi woven 2/8 Tencel double stranded.
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The “ends per inch” – epi – are more important than the reed size. Jane recommends 18 epi for the sample and you can check out the Reed Substitution Chart to find out how to sley 18 epi on the reed or reeds you have.
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Finally finished this warp just in time fir Christmas. The red and green tea towel will be perfect theme wise! -
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I reversed the red and olive in the warp and in addition to the sampler, I wove a table runner, towel, and miscellaneous pieces with multiple weft colors.
It is fun to see my confidence level increase with each sample. I have always loved vibrant colors so Jane’s sample selections feed this passion.Ginny
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Here is a pic of my completed plaid sample. Also went on to do an 8/2 cotton warp and boucle weft design in red, natural and black which has some plaid design. I love how The designs and colors of each of them came out. I’m quoting my weaving friend when I say “Isn’t it wonderful when you see a barely tamed, chained yarns puddled on the floor magically turned, by your own hands, into actual cloth?”. Yes, weaving is magic! 
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scarf from plaid sample warp
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