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This was great, Jane, as usual! Thank you.
When weaving the PC 21 sequence that went from right to left, had I not seen the video, I would have read the sequence from right to left (like a threading draft). Also, I didn’t realize that when going right to left, you ‘go down the hill’, rather than start on shaft 1. So, two good things about the patterning notation learned from watching you weave, Jane.
I’m blown away by all the possibilities and how much is possible with color and weave effects–unbelievable!
Karen
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I have a few questions about this interesting episode. How do you change direction to get a zig-zag pattern? Ex.: #6 and #7
Can you weave place mats and table runners using 8/2 cotton for both warp and weft or would these be too heavy? Can you use this weaving technique for wool scarves, or, again, would there be no drape to snuggle warmly around a person’s neck?
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Hi Joy, you should go back and review Season 4: Episode 9.1 Weft Faced at the Table. Jane explains it there. This episode is about Weft Faced weaving – the samples that Jane is weaving would be awesome for rugs using the Quebecois wool. You could make placemats using 8/4 or 8/8 cotton as your weft, and if you put on a warp of 8/2 why not weave a sample using 8/2 as a weft and see if you like the result.
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Im confused to the threading and tie ups used. I want to recreate #14 but having tried both in iweaveit i couldnt get close
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Thank you, Sandra! I hope we don’t get shut down because of Covid, but, if we do, I’ll weave, weave, weave. I agree that it has been a great year, sometimes taking in a steep learning curve, but always an interesting challenge. Gotta keep the grey matter moving, eh?
Happy Holidays to you and all the crew. I really appreciate this online guild.
Joy
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Yes and i did. But they always came out wrong. https://imgur.com/a/bcbf16e
here you see doing treddles 1,2,3 for thr first half a red stripe for the break and then 5,6,7,8 as a twill treddling.
neither are #14 so please tell me where im being dumb because id really like to use this but without knowing where im being stupid it could just end up a proper epic fail
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Um #14 is DLDDL with what shows as straight draw. To confirm i was trying to do this https://imgur.com/a/5NlNgcE
but using the tie up pdf you can see in my original picture iid the krokbradt one on treddles 1-3 and twill 5-8 so going 123 or 5678 should have produced the picture but neither are that close
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I see, I saw you had the Krokbragd Tie-up on your picture and thought that’s what you were trying to go for. Ok, so I’ve done #14 DLDDL in a straight 2/2 treadling 1, 2, 3, 4 on Fibreworks and I’m ending with this, but on the loom it’ll be woven tighter.
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Well i did explain i had done both in trying to work it out. And the top half was krokbragt the other half twill. See yours cones out looking like a normal twill which kinda makes no sense either because the light dark balances arent even and it doesn’t look to have used your yellow and green. But none of us have one that looks like the picture. Even if you scrunch it up more theres a clear colour break in the diagonal of dark and a perfect line of light.
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The only way you are going to find out if you are happy with that pattern is to put it onto your loom, Liz. Have you done any of these samples? One of the things that is different with this set of samples is that the linen is strong and lets the weft move over it. Therefore, as you can see from the video, the weft completely covers the warp as Jane beats it in. It’s hard to imagine it by doing it in Fiberworks or iWeave it. I have a friend who always tells me to “just suspend disbelief” and just do it. When you get it on your loom and are weaving it can you post a photo? Someday weaving software may be able to take the texture of yarns into the software design process, we can always hope!
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I got this all wound onto the loom and started working on the little mini rugs but my floating selvages kept breaking. Not just once or twice but about every two inches. I used the recommended linen for the warp which i had used for the warp faced plain weave lesson some time back with no issues. The only thing I can figure is it is just so incredibly dry in Alberta right now that the linen has no resilience. Anyhow my question is what would be a good alternate for the linen?
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A wool that has 12 wraps per inch is working for me. You can try spraying the linen warp with spray starch too. I have also wound and chained warps and soaked them in warm water and laundry starch and beamed them on when dry, that worked wonders once when I had a yarn I wanted to use that kept fraying at the reed and breaking, no more problems. I didn’t measure, just poured in a “dollop” and soaked for half an hour. Linen is such a great warp yarn for rugs in the end. I’m only using the wool because I have it in my stash and know it will work.
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I have a question about K9 if you please. My weaving looks nothing like the example.
“inspired by K7” 6LDD… so I’m weaving LDD on Krokbragd threading 6 times in a row and then again and again. I’m thinking you mean 6L then DD repeat repeat repeat. I’ll go try it. Comments?
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Hello again! Still working through the sampler slowly but gardening season is here 😉 I did the samplers backwards – twill/krokbragd first and since I’ll have extra warp I went back to watch the p.w. weft-faced and do that sampler. I was hoping the warp and weft Jane used would be the same (it is) but I also assumed I’d have to resley to a different sett since we’re now doing p.w. But I don’t? Both the twill sampler and the p.w. sampler are at 5epi.
Can you maybe explain why? Did I miss something in the video that explains it? I’m wondering if maybe p.w. covers the warp more easily simply because it’s only going over 1 warp thread, so I don’t need to resley to a wider sett. Is that it maybe? Thank you!
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