Twill as Overshot Sampling (2015)
April 14, 2015 - No Comments
Pattern: Strickler Page 38 #166
Yarns: Warp & pattern weft: Just Our Yarns Almaza 10/2 tencel, blue and red variegated, respectively. Tabby weft is Just Our Yarns Mira II.
Method: Weaving
Completed: April 14, 2015.
Ow. It was intended to be a 7″ wide scarf for me. I bought the yarns at the “Just Our Yarn” booth at MDS&W 2014, after admiring a scarf they had there as a sample. I think it could have been lovely, but my inexperience gave me 2 challenges that derailed me:
- I tried 30epi, which was too dense; I wound up having to re-sley to 24epi. That wouldn’t have been a big deal, except
- All the wear on the warp threads, and the tension, caused an impossible number of broken warp threads.
So, I wove off a couple of pieces with the planned yarns, and did a lot of other playing around with the twill and different other yarns.
And, we’ll call it a “sampler”.
Finished "object"
Beauty shot -- not really drape-y enough for a scarf, not stiff enough for tableware.
Two finished objects... whatever they are.
Close up of a successful portion -- twill weaving of Almaza yarns, with blue Mira II as a ground weft.
Closeup -- pretty pattern!
Edges were pretty sad.
Two wefts -- red pattern (Almaza, 10/2 tencel) and blue plainweave (Mira II)
Just Our Yarns -- Almaza and Mira II
Just Our Yarns -- Almaza and Mira II
Pretty....
30epi sample on top of 24epi work in progress on the loom.
30epi sample on top of 24epi work in progress on the loom.
Two repeats in twill only, using black tencel as weft.
Two repeats in twill only, using black tencel as weft.
Progression -- 5/2 black weft alone, then with plainweave, then 10/2 red with plainweave, then 10/2 red alone.
Progression -- 5/2 black weft alone, then with plainweave, then 10/2 red with plainweave, then 10/2 red alone.
Closeup -- red with blue plainweave, then red in twill alone.
Closeup -- 5/2 black with blue plainweave, and without.
Sample sample -- with various wefts of different thickness.
Almost textured.
Closeup -- black twill with blue plainweave.
Off the loom
Back side
Sample sampler off the loom.
Xtreme closeup
Xtreme closeup
Xtreme closeup -- almost can see the texture
Xtreme closeup -- almost can see the texture
Happy times -- at first it seemed to be working out
Hyper-closeup
Just off the loom.
One piece, off the loom -- lots of trailing warp thread mending.
I finished the warp with different wefts to check out how the colours worked.
Blue on variegated blue.
Blue with silvery bits on blue.
Woolly weft -- didn't really make a nice fabric.
Silvery blue on blue (just twill, no plainweave ground weft).
Silvery blue on blue (just twill, no plainweave ground weft).
After-sampling -- I believe that was some handspun woolly weft.
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