Combining different setts to get different effects
Last week we looked at warp repp - setting the warp yarns so close together that the weft cannot be seen - and I talked about warp and weft emphasis, mentioning that not only can warp repp be effective for rugs, but so can the other extreme, where the warp is spaced...
Intelligence
Conversations about intelligence seem to have popped up all over the place this week.... How many different sorts of intelligence are there? So far this week, here are what's come up in conversation.... There's the obvious academic intelligence which seems to be all...
Texture in Plain Weave – Warp Repp
Last week we looked at introducing textural elements into your plain weave to give instant changes. This week, we are looking at a technique called Warp Repp. This is a fabric where the warp yarns are so closely sett to each other that the weft yarn cannot be seen. ...
Texture in Weaving – Starting Simple
Texture in Plain Weave - Starting Simple As promised last week, here is the first post on how to introduce texture into your weaving. This is especially for people with simple looms, rigid heddle, 2 or 4 shafts. I’m not going to go into tapestry here as there are...
The Present is a gift
I read this little gem in a blog this week. It was a throw-away comment on a business blog, but one that struck a chord with me. The translation all depends on whether you start the sentence with an indefinite article or a definite one. (I'll bet that just took you...
Regular woven texture blog by request
In some of my posts, I have lightly touched on some of the weaving research into texture that I have been focussing on in the past 2 years, and which are the subject of some of the lectures that I am giving at the Complex Weavers' Seminars and also at HGA's...
Jacquard cards and pigsties
What do jacquard cards and pigsties have in common? Well, nothing really, except that I'm writing about both in today's blog!! Today we uncovered some history in our garden, and I found, by chance, a link to a blog showing jacquard cards used in an architectural...
Structo looms and miniature weaving
This weekend, I have been having a great time with a student called Zaf, who brought along her little Structo loom. She bought it from eBay and unfortunately it doesn't have a reed or a batten, so she was a little disappointed that she couldn't use it. However, she...
Achievement, procrastination and laziness
How are the above 3 topics linked? Well, the last two are easy to put together, but it would seem a bit of a stretch to join them to achievement! Firstly, the achievement. It's been a dream of my son's - a bucket dream ("what I'd like to do before I kick the...
Family ties and celebrations
This year is a bumper year for family celebrations in my family. My father recently celebrated his 80th birthday, and he is a very young 80 - more like in his 60s, mentally! It's wonderful to see him so enjoying his life and being really active in many...
How a hunch can be right…..
Hunches and instinct are quite often dismissed by people as not important. If you are an emotional sort of person, and you believe in hunches and instincts, do you find, as I often do, that more left-brain types look down their noses at you, believing you to be in...
Weaving Volcanoes
You'd have thought we'd all have had enough of volcanoes just recently, wouldn't you? But it seems I just can't help myself! I'm now weaving them! Yesterday it was dunes and waves, today it's volcanoes! I was watching The Wonders of the Solar System on BBC iplayer...