tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17072493578039772082024-03-28T12:38:16.173-04:00Random Acts of ColorDevoted to Weaving and the Fiber ArtsDenise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.comBlogger223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-83227516826921093032024-03-26T14:17:00.002-04:002024-03-26T14:42:36.618-04:00Can You Name Your 10 Favorite Weaving Books? These Are Mine.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNLSbK8FvnXCe-tR_BhgGPawT3lrSdo_VutlUB2qNIuyj8gKyYh00Let16WXxE_0rPevpZgp4BHVQw7Cs54vxb6cxfGlG9tBRr3uv5I9YMckl43F9I5u6cOXf5uV9WSh9uy0HCGpB_-5dt6nE75yEHJXoAtcuI5HNNqiE_tZGJW5wFalOzRSNpQw9rk4/s3227/71C08D84-24B0-4DB2-A618-B3DA9A6B33C2_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3227" data-original-width="2522" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNLSbK8FvnXCe-tR_BhgGPawT3lrSdo_VutlUB2qNIuyj8gKyYh00Let16WXxE_0rPevpZgp4BHVQw7Cs54vxb6cxfGlG9tBRr3uv5I9YMckl43F9I5u6cOXf5uV9WSh9uy0HCGpB_-5dt6nE75yEHJXoAtcuI5HNNqiE_tZGJW5wFalOzRSNpQw9rk4/w313-h400/71C08D84-24B0-4DB2-A618-B3DA9A6B33C2_1_201_a.jpeg" width="313" /></a></div><p></p><p>For me, hands down, my list starts with this one. Not because this is how I learned to weave or even because this is how I learned that weaving has cosmic possibilities. It's because I can't stop learning from this book and I love the beauty and intricacy of the ideas in this book. Sometimes I can't fathom what she's writing about, but I keep trying.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ5WVSH6jQT9OqoaWcRedRZwUlzhZ0pxWHXCsNp05ASlzC1BQv4KFws6eVEeciA5Ll6X25BfKIpN9X6QSZgN5Cg5DZdWCAQ9Fv1PqpHgRzSGzOUVD9PXJ0MKSE8aiY6O69J48qT6TBTik3OGFKstfEHuQhrXNyVpq8LulZzS9QVriHTnunzbBBsR8hfZM/s1967/8842D403-1F53-4C91-8D6F-FB0BE94BC4AA_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1845" data-original-width="1967" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ5WVSH6jQT9OqoaWcRedRZwUlzhZ0pxWHXCsNp05ASlzC1BQv4KFws6eVEeciA5Ll6X25BfKIpN9X6QSZgN5Cg5DZdWCAQ9Fv1PqpHgRzSGzOUVD9PXJ0MKSE8aiY6O69J48qT6TBTik3OGFKstfEHuQhrXNyVpq8LulZzS9QVriHTnunzbBBsR8hfZM/s320/8842D403-1F53-4C91-8D6F-FB0BE94BC4AA_1_201_a.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i>What's more important: Taking care of a book or reading it a lot?</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwafByLv08OdbQC5rST7Kkiv-qavgSsPqtNzW1RgY9EfNt_kANGx45lUyZjh2kG6B0IbiKmWuqWpr8neSkl9qYIy6Lfd88sJ_5Oke9kqXruEWZfqf0ovW05hXSoXWh6k78Mf6jHPGRQnUWhdOtOx2EG8guNBRjE0WhS3vwep07n1o9vwxxFleEv12BI08/s3205/28CA00EB-D032-4675-83C4-AF38CE53ABF7_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3205" data-original-width="2436" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwafByLv08OdbQC5rST7Kkiv-qavgSsPqtNzW1RgY9EfNt_kANGx45lUyZjh2kG6B0IbiKmWuqWpr8neSkl9qYIy6Lfd88sJ_5Oke9kqXruEWZfqf0ovW05hXSoXWh6k78Mf6jHPGRQnUWhdOtOx2EG8guNBRjE0WhS3vwep07n1o9vwxxFleEv12BI08/w304-h400/28CA00EB-D032-4675-83C4-AF38CE53ABF7_1_201_a.jpeg" width="304" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I spent maybe a decade weaving my way through this one. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVxkbzaER3j2VFY52wUIS6O-nGn-CAe218L3GnBK-_1mNvu2st4bdJ7bYIVHZ9uow1sriHffvF5nMT9aPeqIsdPlGWjsYUk3mUJUkpnC0pI6o-4OXG8k0ykbAAeupjBEeR1wQfKpK5EDCKjlMQ2PLReDdAUfIHZPI3duAuTIb7iGDlipihfQT4kboj_EM/s3888/96B49662-C056-4744-ABE3-8147B9C1E5F7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVxkbzaER3j2VFY52wUIS6O-nGn-CAe218L3GnBK-_1mNvu2st4bdJ7bYIVHZ9uow1sriHffvF5nMT9aPeqIsdPlGWjsYUk3mUJUkpnC0pI6o-4OXG8k0ykbAAeupjBEeR1wQfKpK5EDCKjlMQ2PLReDdAUfIHZPI3duAuTIb7iGDlipihfQT4kboj_EM/w400-h266/96B49662-C056-4744-ABE3-8147B9C1E5F7.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><i>And writing notes on it -- in pen -- which is not very classy.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">"Strickler," that's how weavers describe it, sort of like "Beyonce" or "Marilyn" -- a true star. This book is a delight and (in my humble opinion) belongs in your library if you have eight shafts. Maybe even if you don't.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiMB9lt1UeJb3x0ebwXxgjAokZw-vMyUPGaiYpHbd3Q0NnVu2TSHJj6VAdMzysNonAvmD5ZphaR9Z6hGDfBNUa5hQNSIb-owFExGwkB2-ug8e8UTnomrhTiYTUfMAMWU4wnMBFI0GY9UPMCUbx10oEgNYGIB4KafnzneMQAEmFuOumOAPeNGlgXqblWys/s3069/A2432008-5C3C-4B14-AB8E-8D7A47C30ED2_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3069" data-original-width="2273" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiMB9lt1UeJb3x0ebwXxgjAokZw-vMyUPGaiYpHbd3Q0NnVu2TSHJj6VAdMzysNonAvmD5ZphaR9Z6hGDfBNUa5hQNSIb-owFExGwkB2-ug8e8UTnomrhTiYTUfMAMWU4wnMBFI0GY9UPMCUbx10oEgNYGIB4KafnzneMQAEmFuOumOAPeNGlgXqblWys/w296-h400/A2432008-5C3C-4B14-AB8E-8D7A47C30ED2_1_201_a.jpeg" width="296" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Atwater -- another single-name star.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I think Mary Meigs Atwater single-handedly resurrected the art and craft of weaving in America in the 20th century. This is not hyperbole. We owe her almost everything (again, in my humble opinion). Published almost a century ago, the book is grandly and authoritatively titled: <u>The Shuttle-Craft Book of American Hand-Weaving, Being an Account of the Rise, Development, Eclipse, and Modern Revival of a National Popular Art, Together with Information of Interest and Value to Collectors, Technical Notes for the Use of Weavers & a Large Collection of Historic Patterns</u>. My edition is inscribed "Wayne Baker April 1951," a year before I was born. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMw9WpRWZekeS4aZuqPwX65MBaCCC7fR3BtpeB9zBmyAMW6xICfSlelxPRB8_sV49bRPQ9xl7ZV0GP8V8fvFYSOUZPP_a-opvLCKFPp7Mk7G6i-RnziTg_fYaWWytfBy0ioqSYqOTCjvigtOvetpaEpLNwqIztpzLp2zpqF55QuCV17IaCKYHag93J4WI/s3125/10BD8ED5-14EF-4C13-83CA-23F90EBDBA63_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3125" data-original-width="2489" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMw9WpRWZekeS4aZuqPwX65MBaCCC7fR3BtpeB9zBmyAMW6xICfSlelxPRB8_sV49bRPQ9xl7ZV0GP8V8fvFYSOUZPP_a-opvLCKFPp7Mk7G6i-RnziTg_fYaWWytfBy0ioqSYqOTCjvigtOvetpaEpLNwqIztpzLp2zpqF55QuCV17IaCKYHag93J4WI/w319-h400/10BD8ED5-14EF-4C13-83CA-23F90EBDBA63_1_201_a.jpeg" width="319" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Davison. Now that I think about it, ALL of the weaving classics </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>are known simply by the last name of the writer/weaver.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">First published in 1944, my version is from the fourth printing in 1947. I treasure this book for several reasons -- among them, it's stamped with the name "Ruth C. Herron." She was a beloved member of our guild and a superb weaver, who continued to correspond with us from her late-in-life home in California, where she died at 107. I think of her often. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHoHG1MdV4Fe0v050QckqKlCUv2pn9HwLt4FfM0Vkn6VIue_lRcYCuwRF6nj1KBV793IP-yEhUNvUwd8oCIa32xLkjVYCMgOaI9q6gWw34xJdRnb6Np8i5fphYgicbuiyBgdesTz_4gMqFKc01sjLdhzU0oquTm9fWoaAc6a6vOnW4sSQItgXAxQxzWVU/s3166/IMG_3192.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2427" data-original-width="3166" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHoHG1MdV4Fe0v050QckqKlCUv2pn9HwLt4FfM0Vkn6VIue_lRcYCuwRF6nj1KBV793IP-yEhUNvUwd8oCIa32xLkjVYCMgOaI9q6gWw34xJdRnb6Np8i5fphYgicbuiyBgdesTz_4gMqFKc01sjLdhzU0oquTm9fWoaAc6a6vOnW4sSQItgXAxQxzWVU/w400-h306/IMG_3192.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i>Even Ruth wrote in her books, albeit in pencil.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91zBCOBAPjbH7HFiuD6ZOhRloRNKKe8TABXe4-1dJo1aq63IkrzC1tsakbCAnLxv3Ae0wzkyHWO3yZ3EdIr6KqiSCHGpyqotlsLM6yLw0nqBIhS2obe4zdV94epT8m1G_9EGQbr9JMYfmCMKZWLwiTTDkzicuqfdeHojK6JVWOMlgeyLdl9uik6tUpFQ/s3107/72FC0DA1-6FB5-46F3-B4C2-7EC14191E57A_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3107" data-original-width="2538" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91zBCOBAPjbH7HFiuD6ZOhRloRNKKe8TABXe4-1dJo1aq63IkrzC1tsakbCAnLxv3Ae0wzkyHWO3yZ3EdIr6KqiSCHGpyqotlsLM6yLw0nqBIhS2obe4zdV94epT8m1G_9EGQbr9JMYfmCMKZWLwiTTDkzicuqfdeHojK6JVWOMlgeyLdl9uik6tUpFQ/w326-h400/72FC0DA1-6FB5-46F3-B4C2-7EC14191E57A_1_201_a.jpeg" width="326" /></a></div><br /><i>This book. </i></span><i style="text-align: left;">We all have our heroes.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Is there anyone more loved among weavers than Anni Albers? From the Bauhaus to the gold medal for craftsmanship from the American Institute of Architects, the weaver who summoned us to "take a thread for a walk" and continues to teach us to this day. This book is her masterpiece, second only to her art.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Oh my gosh, I'm only at book number five. But this is a good time to pause and qualify my listings, to try and explain why I've chosen them. My list is by no means a "must have" for every weaver, or for beginning weavers, or even for a guild's weaving library. Not at all. These are just the books that I, at this moment in my life and in my weaving practice, love to have on my bookshelf. You might say these are my "desert island" books -- you know, if you were stranded on a desert island and could take only a handful of books with you, what would you choose? I'm also writing this as a sort of dialogue with you, the reader (assuming you've gotten this far), hoping you might, like me, appreciate the weaving books you love and perhaps even consider reading the books I've listed, if you haven't read them already.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">(Not that I've read each book cover to cover. I'm really not that kind of a reader when it comes to books about our craft.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So on down the list. And one more note: This list is not in any particular order of preference or value. It's just for perusement, as libraries themselves are.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq4uLIARhmkDVns5aKfI30R_AxNcC4vckjvcaFdSUyrZmToN6dJHopo4wbMx64Apr-NJf-wworfW8ufsGX7_2djar0aHjN7Fh7GkHmon77h3Xz5emYSsHfVrlqsrmT8yBmgAwajn-qEvGTjpn5NEziHdVK08-KoMUy3o0WJ68PII_BMq2AnKGj1GVDc_I/s3103/863133CC-1880-44B5-8514-0ECE737EEEC3_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3103" data-original-width="2398" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq4uLIARhmkDVns5aKfI30R_AxNcC4vckjvcaFdSUyrZmToN6dJHopo4wbMx64Apr-NJf-wworfW8ufsGX7_2djar0aHjN7Fh7GkHmon77h3Xz5emYSsHfVrlqsrmT8yBmgAwajn-qEvGTjpn5NEziHdVK08-KoMUy3o0WJ68PII_BMq2AnKGj1GVDc_I/w309-h400/863133CC-1880-44B5-8514-0ECE737EEEC3_1_201_a.jpeg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I have to include Chandler. May the weaving goddesses bless this book, </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>because this is how so many of us learned to weave. </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There was a time when I referred to Chandler as I was dressing my loom, as I learned to read drafts, as I was deciphering how to sley 16 ends in a 12-dent reed, all of the basics. She gave us this gift and this book will always be in my library for that reason.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnoCUxipOUVLAI63lh4zMa1jdx00sDZdLixrAFuTNlsKyS3DLtZrij6YaJQKUAQrZuOAX5S1xYA6UmQpYVZJhLrjMp_RXBgrpy6YPz3sZeoJqN36c1Um06Ug0KjNsza3S6KDJ6BMIkR2rhcVGwLPAHByjOvPfRp2_z_eyij_UGAXnlXqFjNCOV1Xg55ew/s3155/FEBF0AF7-75F1-4C00-AF01-021083BD1259_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3155" data-original-width="2567" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnoCUxipOUVLAI63lh4zMa1jdx00sDZdLixrAFuTNlsKyS3DLtZrij6YaJQKUAQrZuOAX5S1xYA6UmQpYVZJhLrjMp_RXBgrpy6YPz3sZeoJqN36c1Um06Ug0KjNsza3S6KDJ6BMIkR2rhcVGwLPAHByjOvPfRp2_z_eyij_UGAXnlXqFjNCOV1Xg55ew/s320/FEBF0AF7-75F1-4C00-AF01-021083BD1259_1_201_a.jpeg" width="260" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Wait, what? Not quite about weaving, but this book is </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>where I go down my own special rabbit-hole.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you love dyeing, as I do -- and if you love creating textured weavings using shibori-resist techniques, as I do -- this book is another masterpiece, a weaver's companion. (Detour: There's a relatively new book out there, a brilliant book written by a former New Yorker writer who became a guard at the Met:<u> All the Beauty in the World</u>. You should read it, just saying.) Anyhow, this book by Yoshiko Wada presents all the beauty in the world of shibori. It's a big book, 9 1/2" high by 12" wide, with 211 pages of photos large and small, with information and inspiration about the magic and mystery of the Japanese art known as shibori. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Three more to go. This is hard and a lot of you may not agree at all. But I will press on. (Get it? Press, as in publish?)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhzPU69AxVN6qXAlxKlW7KQXlrak7K25YQ8z91IV3UhbdNR_gYbmScTzVF5t27nqgP91zEUZLjQhSaUYAIz1_5wBWy8BVXZI5bNL_diaqlOwcdAx5kubZKmiMD8stwIXPan5JmRqNFsdxJ4Js1qJoe3EZ9S9CFK_0vgjq4ooTdP1caIZ-BmjWUoL4gRew/s2927/745DEA8F-D380-4E49-90FA-DFBFF1254418_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2927" data-original-width="2523" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhzPU69AxVN6qXAlxKlW7KQXlrak7K25YQ8z91IV3UhbdNR_gYbmScTzVF5t27nqgP91zEUZLjQhSaUYAIz1_5wBWy8BVXZI5bNL_diaqlOwcdAx5kubZKmiMD8stwIXPan5JmRqNFsdxJ4Js1qJoe3EZ9S9CFK_0vgjq4ooTdP1caIZ-BmjWUoL4gRew/w345-h400/745DEA8F-D380-4E49-90FA-DFBFF1254418_1_201_a.jpeg" width="345" /></a></div><i><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Another book in my own area of interest: Ann Richards's definitive book on weaving dimensional textiles. She approaches her designs with a laser-like focus and creates beauty as a result.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ann Richards of England is one of the luminaries in the field of dimensional weaving. I traveled to London to study with her, and that workshop plus this book gave me a foundation to build my own textured weavings. The joy is in the process, from start to finish: learning how to tame unruly threads as you dress your loom and then how to give them freedom as you weave so that they have room to move about in the finishing. And the finishing is a joy, as you see a fabric change almost organically in the water.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sometimes the best books are those that continue to offer up insight and enjoyment well after you've read them -- or rather <i>thought</i> you read them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRD1btQMcMtfGZ1LO-Ve0QRo3c5zHnkQlsj8-PWUPzD32SkqMzZ1eFhq0CCc3j6mUQ9LwmrRV0v4SnW626q_8DGHRxF6-BnI-Zseq2s0Q8kBqVI7_GCefycsyffE5ZpkkO8YUACxtLxqLYKv9eVM5E0TdAPb_YZprS627o8_ENRqZaYD990EikkKwbik0/s2991/D46DC18A-D2F0-4515-9469-46EA85388EEC_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2991" data-original-width="2572" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRD1btQMcMtfGZ1LO-Ve0QRo3c5zHnkQlsj8-PWUPzD32SkqMzZ1eFhq0CCc3j6mUQ9LwmrRV0v4SnW626q_8DGHRxF6-BnI-Zseq2s0Q8kBqVI7_GCefycsyffE5ZpkkO8YUACxtLxqLYKv9eVM5E0TdAPb_YZprS627o8_ENRqZaYD990EikkKwbik0/w344-h400/D46DC18A-D2F0-4515-9469-46EA85388EEC_1_201_a.jpeg" width="344" /></a></div><i><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>There's a saying attributed to several sages: "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." This book keeps bringing me lessons for new techniques -- and I've owned it for at least 20 years.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ah yes, the old <i>Weaver's</i> magazine, perhaps one of the greatest how-to resources for weavers. Somehow I got my hands on the entire collection (which is another treasure, but not a book, that I could add to this list). <u>Fabrics that Go Bump</u> is a compendium of patterns and instructions that appeared in a number of issues, all focused on achieving bumps, pleats, ruffles, and billows in your fabric. I turn to this book often for inspiration and understanding.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So what's number 10? Stubenitsky once again!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpqenrTwpUaeoJg5Ea5jQ1PO-IUjdeFuV0N9VXTTyIKa0H9yuCPuIWIfLyQZGo0yPimunUZjrhcRj2IAoklUfYl9QbS1VjBgkGk0eAuZqoihxuncbQjeJwz_EDYWPWdAtZivjbtJP4dIzY1dF3XxiUK7RpcwkLmK5ostmNvCUI8gaBOnmsxXu8SFwsqcc/s3314/42222377-C6FB-45BA-9BA5-AEE3040596D3_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3314" data-original-width="2464" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpqenrTwpUaeoJg5Ea5jQ1PO-IUjdeFuV0N9VXTTyIKa0H9yuCPuIWIfLyQZGo0yPimunUZjrhcRj2IAoklUfYl9QbS1VjBgkGk0eAuZqoihxuncbQjeJwz_EDYWPWdAtZivjbtJP4dIzY1dF3XxiUK7RpcwkLmK5ostmNvCUI8gaBOnmsxXu8SFwsqcc/w298-h400/42222377-C6FB-45BA-9BA5-AEE3040596D3_1_201_a.jpeg" width="298" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Why? Because it's crammed with originality and innovation </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>about one of my favorite techniques: deflected doubleweave.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"> Stubenitsky always lays a world before you, this time looking at the graphic, colorful, texture-full world of deflected doubleweave. (The woman is merciless when it comes to writing books: I think she's at five now, if you include <i>Janna Weaves</i>, and they're all abounding with patterns and ideas.) What I like about this book is that she offers a solid explanation for drafting DDW, which isn't as easy as it looks. One of my friends whose work appears in the book, when I asked how she arrived at her wonderful designs, told me she "played around a lot." And I understand exactly what she meant. There is a mystery to creating these designs and Stubenitsky helps de-mystify much of it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">That's my top ten. For right now, at least. What are yours? If you're like me, you have a library -- some of which you love, some of which you like, some of which you don't like but can't seem to part with. We need them for our work but we also need them as friends, it seems. That's what books are for.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq2csqHRaGijDkDNITvvSOU0M_AUK94i3lEEeiPbVsH9dQI7u2u5dsFmh_EE_bwZYuflqO7XWAVn9svr0rJMrwbb1oZP48XSmG-d6lbASLJ_9_YBaFinPsO4kd03dpdzAG5IUvVAfhL3YgerJE0v__Upho2iTN9BAV7BIIDbnljbFEryluqROifDFczBk/s2000/Book%20cover%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1294" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq2csqHRaGijDkDNITvvSOU0M_AUK94i3lEEeiPbVsH9dQI7u2u5dsFmh_EE_bwZYuflqO7XWAVn9svr0rJMrwbb1oZP48XSmG-d6lbASLJ_9_YBaFinPsO4kd03dpdzAG5IUvVAfhL3YgerJE0v__Upho2iTN9BAV7BIIDbnljbFEryluqROifDFczBk/w259-h400/Book%20cover%20photo.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I can't forget to mention my own book, </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>which is a favorite because I wrote it ;o)</i></div><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">Thanks for reading!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><i><br /></i><p></p>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-57997913876171821772024-02-15T13:41:00.003-05:002024-02-24T09:27:24.455-05:00We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties. Please Stand By.*<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2NTAOY8tAqn70d50PNkr4n52EsDOAXkS0S57oFWa3eX8GE_T0o0aa8nt-nXC_Ch6JthRgqbTDzh4G4zHM_ghwOejXliMCuj3RK8e5KbA6uXFjSB-kdbPP1UZFHFsLBkaXc3R4wLP4aJPThJ_X-k1oM8LfPqcRf_FHJi8-xxmMmPJx9HN-kthIaiEKQ8g/s720/tv-test-patterns-01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="720" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2NTAOY8tAqn70d50PNkr4n52EsDOAXkS0S57oFWa3eX8GE_T0o0aa8nt-nXC_Ch6JthRgqbTDzh4G4zHM_ghwOejXliMCuj3RK8e5KbA6uXFjSB-kdbPP1UZFHFsLBkaXc3R4wLP4aJPThJ_X-k1oM8LfPqcRf_FHJi8-xxmMmPJx9HN-kthIaiEKQ8g/w400-h303/tv-test-patterns-01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*Warning: This post is just partly about fiber.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Remember those test patterns on your old black and white TV? They were typically accompanied by an ear-piercing alarm to tell us that a TV station (we had three back then) was malfunctioning for some reason or other. Kids like my sisters and me -- who loved watching the Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and Spanky and Our Gang -- were out of luck.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Truth be told, I'm experiencing technical difficulties right now, accompanied by malfunctions in my weaving, ever since our house was damaged by water -- more like flooded with water -- last September 18.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTawOf48OFKb1axb0JxWniII5szwAkS9r5JVWpWHYc8KHj1Q1oYZBTBK2R5aBN3D1-BzFDq0tgzi1_eY5JaKfgsMITKK5s2P8rD6CR5ORMAdThPokDVt70DaVXm6-id3rAd7OflNuBRuFp0QX1Lnv7XyWgR_lYjjWjGr5qIgPI4BmL-8czbgY4lz6Fn8/s4032/Sun%20Room.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTawOf48OFKb1axb0JxWniII5szwAkS9r5JVWpWHYc8KHj1Q1oYZBTBK2R5aBN3D1-BzFDq0tgzi1_eY5JaKfgsMITKK5s2P8rD6CR5ORMAdThPokDVt70DaVXm6-id3rAd7OflNuBRuFp0QX1Lnv7XyWgR_lYjjWjGr5qIgPI4BmL-8czbgY4lz6Fn8/w300-h400/Sun%20Room.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>After the flood</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA2nh7A8t4QyFlK5hguSvpdZJv0CHI9GgaJJfsKAuer57QjVC0EdhE51ziZPFUBKyJAv8oMX-oao05vOHV9PtAmJfEPUD_mf_UTuVgKBDxg6HpJn1i-Ahi1SUaXYSpU5c3azV-OfCude9kArr3Q-zwz2MmVoVly4jphtTvNeOWqk-nrCXARvE7QstZjRI/s4032/ceiling.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA2nh7A8t4QyFlK5hguSvpdZJv0CHI9GgaJJfsKAuer57QjVC0EdhE51ziZPFUBKyJAv8oMX-oao05vOHV9PtAmJfEPUD_mf_UTuVgKBDxg6HpJn1i-Ahi1SUaXYSpU5c3azV-OfCude9kArr3Q-zwz2MmVoVly4jphtTvNeOWqk-nrCXARvE7QstZjRI/w300-h400/ceiling.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><i>Another water-logged view</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">How did this happen? I had just gotten back from teaching in Rockville, MD, and had come down with Covid. (First time, so I'm a novice.) My husband and I were quarantining in separate bedrooms and I got up early, around 6:30 a.m., and... stepped in what felt like a deep puddle.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You know how crazy our reactions can be when something weird like this happens? My first thought was, "Larry is going to kill me because I left the window open and it rained last night."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But it wasn't just a puddle. This was a lake. I continued splashing to the bathroom and heard this gushing sound pouring from the sink. An indoor waterfall kind of sound.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWEU3VQ0XPiis2dXftZqYnzcTapox1_gY-MAInm2bnT09rOCpPkrAJz1fSXyUlkDD7UeaByqkq8L7NXyNmsKe65Cp6KMXwwH0NSi79TeJ9HS7MsSb-RlQNU1-eqZ-NY92FUEy8kaiHlb-2V59PQot3yxgXWJzEmdBvpK33Lupjnw-sX2QbYeYJlqCiC78/s4032/The%20Culprit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWEU3VQ0XPiis2dXftZqYnzcTapox1_gY-MAInm2bnT09rOCpPkrAJz1fSXyUlkDD7UeaByqkq8L7NXyNmsKe65Cp6KMXwwH0NSi79TeJ9HS7MsSb-RlQNU1-eqZ-NY92FUEy8kaiHlb-2V59PQot3yxgXWJzEmdBvpK33Lupjnw-sX2QbYeYJlqCiC78/w300-h400/The%20Culprit.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The Culprit</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That's all it was! A burst tube that connected the water source to the faucet. It was probably gushing for hours.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The next weird thought: We tried to soak it up all by ourselves. Larry went and got the shop vac and I got a bunch of towels. Maybe we weren't awake yet. Or maybe "de-Nile" isn't just a river in Egypt. (Get it? De-NIAL -- as the joke goes?)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We quickly came to our senses and called a company named Jet-Dry. (Shout out here to Walt Latiuk and his team.) They showed up like the cavalry and spent the rest of the day clearing out the house and soaking up the water. I've learned a lot of words since then, among them, "mitigation," which means bringing in all kinds of really loud equipment to dry things up. (About half of the house was affected -- but not my looms and not Larry's pianos, amazingly.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It took almost a month to dry the house out, using all manner of machines and tubes and mats and fans. We lived in a hotel during that process. (Bonus: We amassed lots of points.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And then we started the renovations. Here I give a shoutout to Brad Colletti and his crew, who came highly recommended by Walt -- and completely lived up to his recommendation. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbtacCuUdFNduQMIAqRU61W2IBnvAMG7VNhF1N-7gbgxdgFYMuHZy9Xw8f1n0rFxdVkdcAgkISzCG0E8GhxEQBHD-xs0HgrHdwZpaucwGox47nX9DMgd0XIJdPw_1uaNLEYep342WBvrFnhw35L37K3ebDzJYMmKqI-wR9_jdKLsRgNRGScClEm1unJ44/s4032/IMG_5881.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbtacCuUdFNduQMIAqRU61W2IBnvAMG7VNhF1N-7gbgxdgFYMuHZy9Xw8f1n0rFxdVkdcAgkISzCG0E8GhxEQBHD-xs0HgrHdwZpaucwGox47nX9DMgd0XIJdPw_1uaNLEYep342WBvrFnhw35L37K3ebDzJYMmKqI-wR9_jdKLsRgNRGScClEm1unJ44/w300-h400/IMG_5881.HEIC" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Starting to replace the ceiling in the living room</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We live in a house built of concrete and steel. I think that was super-quality construction back in 1929, when it was built. So in this photo above, you're looking at concrete supported by girders and steel struts in the ceiling, newly reinforced by sturdy two-by-fours. This house is built like a battleship. It's hard even to hang a picture on the walls. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I won't print some of the oaths we heard from contractors who came to take a look when we were asking them to bid. "Wow" was the mildest we heard....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But Brad and his team took on the project and fixed things really fast. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4mUYzJJ3lcHaKT0pvN3r-97gRgOVUuDpIdHgT2F3EkbF4vKjm3T6bdX1aeVj2PA8oPjyXps5z-5dce6_FLgLLpf73rJl5-BvmgE7IQ5K9OHO4skVI4XiJgDclSYyPZZOP5x-p4CbS6YSkC0n4Tel2SdGsqY_mD0_Bd4bFIhX15vkucP9Q714M6TeegW0/s4032/IMG_3053.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4mUYzJJ3lcHaKT0pvN3r-97gRgOVUuDpIdHgT2F3EkbF4vKjm3T6bdX1aeVj2PA8oPjyXps5z-5dce6_FLgLLpf73rJl5-BvmgE7IQ5K9OHO4skVI4XiJgDclSYyPZZOP5x-p4CbS6YSkC0n4Tel2SdGsqY_mD0_Bd4bFIhX15vkucP9Q714M6TeegW0/w400-h300/IMG_3053.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Ceiling fixed, not yet painted, husband observing (left)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We're pretty pleased with the results so far, although we haven't yet moved back home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7jjMR_v4nFIQEGMPGqCxXI0hIhimdysZlV2SyOcSjh0J5kT3MyRHSDAse35rMo1kjy-pCPEkAf7hus1bjA7wvtGMRSfZqtznBzesyp7T0BB-aAm5L9AnltIixJ4I3MAdqpi6nhICA3cOKKG0JEHXcOwRbRncCHCWBSkhYSUBICVZkG7QBzJlpym-3al4/s4032/Sun%20room%20new.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7jjMR_v4nFIQEGMPGqCxXI0hIhimdysZlV2SyOcSjh0J5kT3MyRHSDAse35rMo1kjy-pCPEkAf7hus1bjA7wvtGMRSfZqtznBzesyp7T0BB-aAm5L9AnltIixJ4I3MAdqpi6nhICA3cOKKG0JEHXcOwRbRncCHCWBSkhYSUBICVZkG7QBzJlpym-3al4/w300-h400/Sun%20room%20new.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Better every day!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, back to the title of this post, referring to "technical difficulties." I'm not talking about the disruption and stress of having our home break -- because, unlike so many folks around the world, we have insurance (shout out to Jeff Yorkey at State Farm) and a home to return to and a contractor who was terrific. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No, I'm not fretting about the house. I want to talk weaving, of course! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN5s9XeEsOAo6D2gjAzbi4MP0qG5pydcyR5bkJgDkXe-ldnPovLavZaAS2uCjB_CeHXa3XTO5ihZzkc7AudG2y9z2h_thyphenhyphencmpQC0Ys5_-d5z6LfcndlFQgs7EEQZpEGdj0waECp9dDScm-nqP37rcPglx5VZEP8fLaIzvXUwRXpa8PeBzyZgia9mX8xZ4/s4032/FullSizeRender.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN5s9XeEsOAo6D2gjAzbi4MP0qG5pydcyR5bkJgDkXe-ldnPovLavZaAS2uCjB_CeHXa3XTO5ihZzkc7AudG2y9z2h_thyphenhyphencmpQC0Ys5_-d5z6LfcndlFQgs7EEQZpEGdj0waECp9dDScm-nqP37rcPglx5VZEP8fLaIzvXUwRXpa8PeBzyZgia9mX8xZ4/w400-h300/FullSizeRender.heic" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>16-shaft Jin design with painted warp, currently on my Toika</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All during this craziness, I just couldn't find my weaving <i>chi</i>, you might say (actually it's more accurately spelled <i>qi)</i>. It's a Mandarin word that, as I understand it, means vital life force, spirit, energy. Chi can be depleted by illness or stress.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And guess what? When you're under stress, you're not going to do your best work. I learned that the hard way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I threaded my loom once, in fine linen dyed with natural dyes (in colors based on a water theme, oddly enough), and wove it with less than stellar results.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWSq5c5jMi9uycSoi9U5dHEgivODHJ87_ommwBXllIyrr2KscrsNEW4qMuRZI3h0QazQPVFTzrpEmYTA63FpAbMuR5XsCo_2k9gHpU4fCc5SrOXyRdpJ56tyeCzdGpg5H0D7PYN6_6vcOX8NIEd6hEdUBvOBw0fFNLzHywdhtVZn8dxQlvT183RZOmW4/s3547/FullSizeRender.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3547" data-original-width="2143" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWSq5c5jMi9uycSoi9U5dHEgivODHJ87_ommwBXllIyrr2KscrsNEW4qMuRZI3h0QazQPVFTzrpEmYTA63FpAbMuR5XsCo_2k9gHpU4fCc5SrOXyRdpJ56tyeCzdGpg5H0D7PYN6_6vcOX8NIEd6hEdUBvOBw0fFNLzHywdhtVZn8dxQlvT183RZOmW4/w241-h400/FullSizeRender.heic" width="241" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Yawn</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I actually cut off this warp, something I've never done before, and put on another warp, this one in 16/1 linen in much bolder colors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRPGIXpyClzXPPo1x3tDswR_nyYoukkCumktDXpM77P7ypa84H_PMbhMJbWt4m1cResi8DCvpoggwCfM9-tvlA9j7jG9vNUEQ9kh9EZ5p2v5o-ipbrSkHE5xAHwhZKpMGObRPZww0oMzm_6eRLJ5wK7vVs8SFqqTbbBoJCQ3wqFk12jNSMQK0IjbtGiY0/s4032/IMG_3104.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRPGIXpyClzXPPo1x3tDswR_nyYoukkCumktDXpM77P7ypa84H_PMbhMJbWt4m1cResi8DCvpoggwCfM9-tvlA9j7jG9vNUEQ9kh9EZ5p2v5o-ipbrSkHE5xAHwhZKpMGObRPZww0oMzm_6eRLJ5wK7vVs8SFqqTbbBoJCQ3wqFk12jNSMQK0IjbtGiY0/w300-h400/IMG_3104.HEIC" width="300" /></a></div><i>Yikes!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So I cut off that warp too (I figure I'm a veteran now) and slowly backed away from the loom. This phase -- staying away from the loom -- lasted a month or two, maybe more. It bothered me, because nothing I did seemed to work. I felt like I couldn't even count (which I often can't, to be honest, even on good days).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But nevertheless, I persisted. (Remember that famous comment Mitch McConnell made about Elizabeth Warren, when she continued to speak after the U.S. Senate voted that she stop speaking in opposition to the confirmation of Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General? It's become a feminist rallying cry.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Nevertheless, I persisted. I had a warp on another loom and decided to tackle it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Long, long story short: After way too many miscounts and re-theading and re-sleying (and re-sleying again), I have a viable fabric (shown in the third photo above and shown in a detail below).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrHc5tj73iVmoLEBQBgKe1YNBmuRBTlvHRQ5Un_BwjYlgLm1W4fKJEGpz-sE47WSxb0_H93YE0-Ggfuyl76k8qAXrcb-jRgzcWaVcacAaRsaPv6iBfLYcwEH8LemwOJ0oDD72C1Gbi6EZmlcWTkbF_sNA-IK3PIQU1DCGIUCORwkLpR5_k9aw1NYWkXsA/s4032/IMG_3100.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrHc5tj73iVmoLEBQBgKe1YNBmuRBTlvHRQ5Un_BwjYlgLm1W4fKJEGpz-sE47WSxb0_H93YE0-Ggfuyl76k8qAXrcb-jRgzcWaVcacAaRsaPv6iBfLYcwEH8LemwOJ0oDD72C1Gbi6EZmlcWTkbF_sNA-IK3PIQU1DCGIUCORwkLpR5_k9aw1NYWkXsA/w300-h400/IMG_3100.heic" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The weaving goddesses decided to give me some slack.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">BUT there are errors. (If you look closely, you can see a treadling error in the middle of the photo above.) Quite a few. So you know what I've decided? This piece is for me alone, not for show, not for sale. I may sew it into a tunic and tell people not to look too closely at the fabric.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I might even wear it out of pride, optimistic that I'm starting to find my chi again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXafZ5ksUstoN_sdlFecC5hk-6Y12wA1x2OzuYHclqDV7M0VTtLgu397_QXKsr9VSf-FhkK46lh2zwb6CePBuOI1EhlXZS7BGe03xis0OFVU1OL6u7h5YJeM888IbvJOCTml8Ne-n0V4UWf_scqKgxeMpJoY_raJDUzZl928mmuUi4Ut9iEqasgch9vVU/s4032/IMG_3097.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXafZ5ksUstoN_sdlFecC5hk-6Y12wA1x2OzuYHclqDV7M0VTtLgu397_QXKsr9VSf-FhkK46lh2zwb6CePBuOI1EhlXZS7BGe03xis0OFVU1OL6u7h5YJeM888IbvJOCTml8Ne-n0V4UWf_scqKgxeMpJoY_raJDUzZl928mmuUi4Ut9iEqasgch9vVU/w300-h400/IMG_3097.HEIC" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Errata</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-73987359057000274612023-12-11T11:05:00.008-05:002024-01-24T11:55:18.833-05:00My Gift to You: a Free Cowl Pattern in Echo on Four Shafts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxgtanw4F0Y6acjAPjtpGBnolh6CjVfdW4esQg6GaSvwhmjEGkZGYHNkjj62DsMPwPsekBXPXhXLkGagZFIzuUhe_0ZX4bLWAQdcvaOtHkYbbeV_bwGXZHJbuLUYkd-okmH-CegeMwDHkZLo9uKlXh2BAb0xlRVmBqfbXtMxACHaC1LuhqQ7Mboo5D4kw/s3024/IMG_2975.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2712" data-original-width="3024" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxgtanw4F0Y6acjAPjtpGBnolh6CjVfdW4esQg6GaSvwhmjEGkZGYHNkjj62DsMPwPsekBXPXhXLkGagZFIzuUhe_0ZX4bLWAQdcvaOtHkYbbeV_bwGXZHJbuLUYkd-okmH-CegeMwDHkZLo9uKlXh2BAb0xlRVmBqfbXtMxACHaC1LuhqQ7Mboo5D4kw/w400-h359/IMG_2975.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p>My gift to you this season: A free pattern (see below) for a handwoven cotton cowl in an Echo/Crackle design* on four shafts. No matter what holiday you celebrate this winter -- and even if you don't celebrate any holiday at all -- you have my endless thanks for following this blog and my work, for being a part of the larger weaving community that means so much to me and to all of us.</p><p>So what are we looking at? A pattern that calls for less than a yard of woven fabric and takes up less than 12" weaving width on your loom. To create the cowl, the fabric is sewn into a circle using a flat-felled seam on your sewing machine or by hand. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8adErOfR0JH9Tc95gHS8mafVJq51EJmL2c8cmLQq9spab1RxVSmM4SoZyuYTm5gup_uBaMjvytlncF1kuENTQFuufosWkrsRQt62eGLoNHa4HVp6uoExtiFbFRd73FRoW3jnAYcnLoba0NzrakZ1-okHZ6J1aHBBuAlPfF-1Xv6c-qeSzL50ozbrEPCA/s4032/IMG_2996.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8adErOfR0JH9Tc95gHS8mafVJq51EJmL2c8cmLQq9spab1RxVSmM4SoZyuYTm5gup_uBaMjvytlncF1kuENTQFuufosWkrsRQt62eGLoNHa4HVp6uoExtiFbFRd73FRoW3jnAYcnLoba0NzrakZ1-okHZ6J1aHBBuAlPfF-1Xv6c-qeSzL50ozbrEPCA/s320/IMG_2996.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are the instructions.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Warp yarns</b>: 10/2 mercerized cotton in two colors (colors that differ in both hue and value -- for my cowl, I used purple and gold)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Weft yarn</b>: 20/2 mercerized cotton (I used bright red)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Warp:</b> Wind a warp of 400 ends plus two ends at the beginning and two at the end for floating selvages. Length: one yard of fabric plus loom waste (more if you want to sample first, to test colors and to doublecheck your threading, which I highly recommend).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Sett:</b> 36 epi (sounds dense but this is a warp-emphasis fabric with a fine weft)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Width in reed: </b>11.11" (that's about 11" for the fabric plus one extra dent on either side for the floating selvages)</div><p><b>Threading:</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFyuEn5_1U0mJswMMxjO1FsoCWEo0FFd8wiTqvFFXHTNgX5qEsXowcr1RZsqLve7VioPB_9XVVZR1vAJPfv4mMS4wHNj5RCm2AyDGo5tXNVJW96EmWi1f_dNVwvBrUWIggG34TJCmyqVDXLzYwvOmM9iWrkrCRGEIOim81N2Tic4WI7iDThkxtbTDeWp8/s2527/Mahal%20threading.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2527" data-original-width="2423" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFyuEn5_1U0mJswMMxjO1FsoCWEo0FFd8wiTqvFFXHTNgX5qEsXowcr1RZsqLve7VioPB_9XVVZR1vAJPfv4mMS4wHNj5RCm2AyDGo5tXNVJW96EmWi1f_dNVwvBrUWIggG34TJCmyqVDXLzYwvOmM9iWrkrCRGEIOim81N2Tic4WI7iDThkxtbTDeWp8/w614-h640/Mahal%20threading.jpg" width="614" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Tieup and Treadling:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitm6gGr8QZiEATa2XqVDnFtnG7JxC486qW23WD9CoY8nHSNzcEUoxFzhwXXmPTv5ZhRO4lHxF9ziVM9iRhKXk_OjHdvaioWnsiRYYMheRw8hRq8E4mD_8-mMntKTfV9fS16ejAstuxN9yZdOz7Ni2r3MexMRBiEVyhLLAWu6lxcawu0XijcN23J2r5-wc/s3112/Tieup%20and%20Treadling%20for%20Mahal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2264" data-original-width="3112" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitm6gGr8QZiEATa2XqVDnFtnG7JxC486qW23WD9CoY8nHSNzcEUoxFzhwXXmPTv5ZhRO4lHxF9ziVM9iRhKXk_OjHdvaioWnsiRYYMheRw8hRq8E4mD_8-mMntKTfV9fS16ejAstuxN9yZdOz7Ni2r3MexMRBiEVyhLLAWu6lxcawu0XijcN23J2r5-wc/w640-h466/Tieup%20and%20Treadling%20for%20Mahal.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">For those of you with a table loom, here's the liftplan:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsaRcTQAPAg0ceqQ0DNzRqjhM1jPNJXozrCAisDegPx_OgtxwF4MSsQlHfxBZ-1aDD8FUq2-3gDcN-Krfxq2z8hEUD1pF4sqlV5QfRq61Ja5ULfqj9YaNU_cnHspuoL714FlvUQbcd_gOAecxXlvCDt_aQTklZwjxjAibtEYxdKo_eos5uzlLKxyqYBdE/s3056/Mahal%20liftplan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3056" data-original-width="2240" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsaRcTQAPAg0ceqQ0DNzRqjhM1jPNJXozrCAisDegPx_OgtxwF4MSsQlHfxBZ-1aDD8FUq2-3gDcN-Krfxq2z8hEUD1pF4sqlV5QfRq61Ja5ULfqj9YaNU_cnHspuoL714FlvUQbcd_gOAecxXlvCDt_aQTklZwjxjAibtEYxdKo_eos5uzlLKxyqYBdE/w470-h640/Mahal%20liftplan.jpg" width="470" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's what the drawdown looks like in Fiberworks, showing one complete motif (one full treadling repeat):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiFru83z6tcsT99smJhgvlAmETe6EFSg8oPYkVgcm_DtZb1mSWrv79pIGzfDyWIdZBnX1Exy3aQD52J9arORQtfaA49Q2aafkL5K33mbnf0ThQrpOY0rpJ1AvWBmCx17tDLwa848-2CzskY5n5ECBCQJVzwGZgs8Emt-MvSezTTiuD3p3I-1zFk0aiXHk/s2427/4%20shaft%20Mahal%202%20colors%20drawdown.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2427" data-original-width="2402" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiFru83z6tcsT99smJhgvlAmETe6EFSg8oPYkVgcm_DtZb1mSWrv79pIGzfDyWIdZBnX1Exy3aQD52J9arORQtfaA49Q2aafkL5K33mbnf0ThQrpOY0rpJ1AvWBmCx17tDLwa848-2CzskY5n5ECBCQJVzwGZgs8Emt-MvSezTTiuD3p3I-1zFk0aiXHk/w634-h640/4%20shaft%20Mahal%202%20colors%20drawdown.jpg" width="634" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Instructions:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Weave three full treadling repeats (three motifs), beginning and ending with about one inch of additional pattern for your seam.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqHrQFahqbfbh5pkVLZqw-eRH00z-2TVd5sl1ecDVTtJ3T63seJbv10gv74JF6VkrE3n9snozx4p5qustVbEsGuF_7AwBdhbxiqxhPaqePXLv3wsRrmc33yE3Q-2ozn0OjxjTBwSOd12Y9N4JkZbvRf3OnsVPfIJrPZBgA-5-Yjqw_GTmUrdqhni_Szhc/s2271/IMG_2938.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="2271" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqHrQFahqbfbh5pkVLZqw-eRH00z-2TVd5sl1ecDVTtJ3T63seJbv10gv74JF6VkrE3n9snozx4p5qustVbEsGuF_7AwBdhbxiqxhPaqePXLv3wsRrmc33yE3Q-2ozn0OjxjTBwSOd12Y9N4JkZbvRf3OnsVPfIJrPZBgA-5-Yjqw_GTmUrdqhni_Szhc/s320/IMG_2938.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Cut off the fabric, serge or otherwise secure the beginning and end, and then immerse it in a bin of warm water using a bit of dish liquid or shampoo (or Orvus Paste or other soaps that are good for fiber). Line dry and then iron the fabric on both sides.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-62aEQneL5UgYGW0YS6FaGNdvlnqKB5utPPrvrzQQZTOugIxq9PaKj0FbzCqY9ZXJoiY5C4GT8aaz8OhEdAVXiSyQn8rzRqVV22LyoH2l4_Z4jHC9rKigvEP2T6zKC-wrLAEyghPxmr2UhFwZow2geaj6pdSMYR7RPNZRIHYZz-F8nKBK35HAFOLQtmU/s4032/IMG_2940.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2809" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-62aEQneL5UgYGW0YS6FaGNdvlnqKB5utPPrvrzQQZTOugIxq9PaKj0FbzCqY9ZXJoiY5C4GT8aaz8OhEdAVXiSyQn8rzRqVV22LyoH2l4_Z4jHC9rKigvEP2T6zKC-wrLAEyghPxmr2UhFwZow2geaj6pdSMYR7RPNZRIHYZz-F8nKBK35HAFOLQtmU/w279-h400/IMG_2940.jpeg" width="279" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Create a circular cowl shape by sewing both the beginning and the end of the fabric together width-wise using a flat-felled seam on your sewing machine (or stitching by hand) with thread of a color that blends in well with your fabric. The goal is to make this join as invisible as possible. For instructions on how to sew a flat-felled seam, consult the internet, where you'll find videos, photos, and written instructions on how to do this.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For those who use weaving software, you can download the WIF by clicking <a href="https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtQameEAdBeYgtg0bnUwoeobZz-Q9g?e=ggiEpc" target="_blank">here</a>. (Please note that this is a Fiberworks .dtx file. If you use a different weaving-software program, please email me by clicking the "Email" link provided in my profile section on this blog.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I just designed this pattern for my workshop, "Echo and Jin: Variations on a Theme," because I like to offer designs for all kinds of shaft looms, from 4 shafts to 32 shafts (but that's as far as I go).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">*One note: While this pattern might easily be classified as Crackle -- because it uses a Crackle threading and treadling (without the tabby shots in between), I have modified it with some Echo techniques. For instance, there are two colors in the warp (keeping in mind that, although this is not typical with Echo, two colors <i>can</i> be woven on consecutive shafts, so that the interval between parallel lines is 1). I suppose you could say that this pattern is, ultimately, a mash-up between Crackle and Echo....</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you have any questions, send me an email (again, click on the "Email" link in my profile section of this blog). And thanks for reading!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGMOe0CSV0d9dhpuko6U6LIAOV-iWMCHhGXL4eDGvX_-hcGf3uJE2c6R9KwCjCIiWLIg_jjUyknZKvkgGc68cz8FerZxzTCbg1A3ML8Y2bkWrx6-Eu2AEYiKkBtVp6TeU2tF_S3oa-vZf9nLth95h2TiSzOlyCG8BbT_wyLSmZgDeBLeKwOEhqQr5o9dw/s4004/IMG_2976.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2855" data-original-width="4004" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGMOe0CSV0d9dhpuko6U6LIAOV-iWMCHhGXL4eDGvX_-hcGf3uJE2c6R9KwCjCIiWLIg_jjUyknZKvkgGc68cz8FerZxzTCbg1A3ML8Y2bkWrx6-Eu2AEYiKkBtVp6TeU2tF_S3oa-vZf9nLth95h2TiSzOlyCG8BbT_wyLSmZgDeBLeKwOEhqQr5o9dw/s320/IMG_2976.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-43800667352124837762023-11-19T18:13:00.004-05:002023-12-02T11:04:36.494-05:00What to Do About Fraying Selvages...<p> A brief intro here: I like to use lots of photos in my blog posts, because weaving is such a visual medium.</p><p>But this month's topic doesn't really require photos, because we can all visualize the problem -- and who wants to see a photo of a fraying selvage, anyway?</p><p>So with that out of the way, let us begin with my first text-only blog post ;o)</p><p>A weaving friend from the Potomac (MD) Fiber Arts Guild wrote me recently about a problem she was having with fraying selvages -- a problem that most of us are all too familiar with. What follows is my reply. I welcome comments from anyone and everyone who has any other pointers!</p><p>_______________________________________________________</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The problem of fraying selvages is so common -- and there are lots of ways to deal with the problem. (I won't use the word "solutions" here, because often you have to analyze what's going on and then try several different approaches before you've found a solution.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For starters, you can have problems with the yarn itself (that is, poorly spun yarn can definitely cause problems with selvages). This means you might have to add something sturdy like Sulky machine-embroidery thread as floating selvages, in that way avoiding abrasion of the real warp selvages.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Aside from that, here's what I recommend.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1) Floating selvages definitely will help protect your warp ends. I typically recommend two floating selvages, sleyed together in one dent, on both sides of the warp.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2) Fraying is often the result of pulling too hard on the selvage after you've thrown the shuttle (that is, you throw the shuttle to the right, for instance, catch it with your right hand, and pull in too tightly on the left selvage). That makes for lots of draw-in on the selvage. (I'm right-handed, so I have this problem often on the left selvage, because that's the one my right hand pulls tighter on as it catches the shuttle and straightens out the weft.) Try being more gentle, "laying in" the weft rather than just yanking on the yarn to set it straight. (That's what we weavers are often inclined to do, because we want to make everything straight and tidy, don't you think?)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The best way to diagnose whether you're pulling on the weft too much is to look at the beater as it hits the fell line. If your yet-unwoven warp-ends at your selvage stretch at an angle, so that the fell line is several dents inside your weaving width, then you've got too much draw-in and you're putting lots of stress on your selvages. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3) Beat on an open shed. This technique, I've found, can also reduce the draw-in on the selvages because it allows for more weft yarn to snuggle among the warp yarns at the fell line (thereby creating less tension at the selvages). What do I mean by beating on an open shed? Step on the treadle to open the shed, throw the shuttle, and then beat with your foot still on the treadle and your shed still open. Only after that do you close the shed. (The more common way we've learned to beat is to step on the treadle, throw the shuttle, release the treadle, close the shed -- and then beat. Beating on a closed shed is harder on the selvages because, in my view, the weft has less room to wriggle up and down among the warp ends, snugging it in so tight that it pulls more on the selvages.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4) Also, you want to think about how you weave your floating selvages. Here's a technique developed by Janet Dawson and I share it because I've found it helps reduce draw-in. Instead of throwing the shuttle over one floating selvage, across the shed, and under the opposite floating selvage -- and then repeating this figure-eight throw for every pick -- try this: With each throw of the shuttle, weave OVER one floating selvage, through the shed, and then OVER the opposite floating selvage. Then, with the next pick, do the reverse: weave UNDER your floating selvage, through the shed, and then UNDER the opposite floating selvage. This, in my view, also reduces draw-in because the traditional "figure eight" of the weft yarn creates just a bit more tension than the circular approach that Dawson recommends. Weaving "over/over" and then "under/under" your floating selvages is a gentler approach, given that the alternative, the figure-eight approach, puts more tension on your selvages (again, in my view).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5) Try using an end-feed-delivery shuttle, which allows you to tension the weft more precisely so that it's not delivered as tightly. Also, with an end-feed-delivery shuttle, the weft is fed directly from the end of the pirn rather than from the wide slit in the boat shuttle, where the weft is fed as it spins erratically around the bobbin. That means, with the end-feed-delivery shuttle, the yarn is delivered in more of a straight line. You'll also find that, with an end-feed-delivery shuttle, the weft glides more gently across the fell line. Here's a link to where you can find excellent end-feed-delivery shuttles: <a href="https://blusterbaywoodworks.com/" target="_blank">https://blusterbaywoodworks.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">6) Many weavers swear by using a temple, which tensions the cloth, helping to take tension off the selvages. (I don't use one, but that's just me.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">7) I've read discussions that delve into the intricacies of the warp-yarn twist versus the twist of the weft yarn as it turns on the selvages, where pick-by-pick the weft slowly untwists one of the selvages because of its opposing S or Z twist direction. This I cannot even begin to analyze ;o) but I do see how it might create a problem. Again, if you suspect this is the issue you're dealing with, you're best off adding floating selvages using a sturdy yarn like rayon embroidery thread.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Whew! This is a big topic for a small detail. Many of us, at least when we first learn to weave, beat hard and pull on the shuttle hard. But I've learned that weaving calls for a more Zen-like approach, you might say, drawing on the shuttle just enough but not too much. As Aristotle famously said, "In all things, moderation."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for reading!</div><p></p>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-10496331805336004942023-10-21T15:48:00.002-04:002023-10-22T18:00:43.640-04:00'Weaving Outside the Box' with Katherine Luhring of Lunatic Fringe Yarns<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz_6K-WKPfyRAa32CU75tjldFQy4lp0zrnUJciyrSDVOpcoAphtklbxdQLTveVc3Xtdt1HrMvdPcedSPt3x5WgDy8TfuQDpRpYWQZ-hpZuGrIk1GeU6a4bCgX0tGrYKaG2wdBi61SG8TH_6BAjqqE8Mw1KtcdQAZKwforr58OLupkCJE-uHJMjNbh_PA0/s500/Finished%20Scarf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="350" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz_6K-WKPfyRAa32CU75tjldFQy4lp0zrnUJciyrSDVOpcoAphtklbxdQLTveVc3Xtdt1HrMvdPcedSPt3x5WgDy8TfuQDpRpYWQZ-hpZuGrIk1GeU6a4bCgX0tGrYKaG2wdBi61SG8TH_6BAjqqE8Mw1KtcdQAZKwforr58OLupkCJE-uHJMjNbh_PA0/w280-h400/Finished%20Scarf.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Deflected doubleweave scarf woven by Katherine Luhring </i><i>from my workshop, </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>"Weaving Outside the Box"</i></div><p>This month I'd like to share an essay by "Katzy" (pronounced "KAHtzee") Luhring, one of the managers at Lunatic Fringe Yarns. Some background: Over the summer, I taught "Weaving Outside the Box: 12 Projects for Creating Dimensional Cloth" at the Intermountain Weavers Conference in Logan, Utah, a workshop based on my book of the same name. We were lucky to have Katzy in our class, as she brought a lot of knowledge and information about some of the special yarns that are sold by Lunatic Fringe. </p><p>Here's a post she wrote for the Lunatic Fringe blog, starting with an introductory paragraph about her weaving adventures. Thank you, Katzy!</p><p>_____________________________________________________</p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We Lunatics have gone to a lot of conferences over the 30-plus years that we have been in business. However, it isn’t very often that we give ourselves the time to participate in the classes offered at the conferences. This year at IWC in Logan Utah, we sprang our fearless leader, Katzy, from booth duty so she could take Denise Kovnat’s dimensional-cloth workshop. Let her tell you about a few of the wonderful things she learned along the way.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>By Katzy Luhring</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.25em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Denise Kovnat’s dimensional-cloth workshop at IWC was a fabulous opportunity to experiment with interesting yarns and learn some new things! Denise asked all the class participants to choose a project from her book, </span><a href="https://lunaticfringeyarns.com/product/weavingoutsideboxkovnat/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">"Weaving Outside the Box, 12 Projects for Creating Dimensional Cloth</a><span>." I chose project #1, the Deflected-Doubleweave Scarf on four shafts. To be perfectly honest, I chose it because the project didn’t have too many ends, it used </span><a href="https://lunaticfringeyarns.com/product/10and20mercerized-cotton-yarn-tubular-spectrum/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">10/2 mercerized cotton yarns</a>,<span> and it would fit on the </span><a href="https://lunaticfringeyarns.com/product/wolf-pup-loom/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">4-shaft Wolf Pup Loom</a><span> that we had room to take with us to Logan. Seemed like a perfect fit all the way around!</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhANSQHqmnGfH7-5rKFjXkhbqyo6zAUyiEDvyM5mMwPvweGWgEIQpY5Fl7ASgu5NqOZrSR28A85gnQIxdBgIMlzvL-gKYx0FdME9WdUr1ny7qGSuqFpyfjokmYwPEW2y9Qa7rEusA2Br1gb6PmTf3zXhriLVlfijJlxoXMBC-cLcCS6LOHsC-ZKrTHNSsY/s601/Thyme%20and%205%20Blue.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhANSQHqmnGfH7-5rKFjXkhbqyo6zAUyiEDvyM5mMwPvweGWgEIQpY5Fl7ASgu5NqOZrSR28A85gnQIxdBgIMlzvL-gKYx0FdME9WdUr1ny7qGSuqFpyfjokmYwPEW2y9Qa7rEusA2Br1gb6PmTf3zXhriLVlfijJlxoXMBC-cLcCS6LOHsC-ZKrTHNSsY/w333-h400/Thyme%20and%205%20Blue.jpg" width="333" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">I wanted to spend the workshop time making samples and learn more about elastic yarn during the workshop. To give myself plenty of warp for playing, I wound a six-yard warp of </span><a href="https://lunaticfringeyarns.com/product/10and20mercerized-cotton-yarn-tubular-spectrum/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span><span style="color: black;">10/2 </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tubular Spectrum</span></span><span style="color: black;"> Thyme and 5 Blue</span></span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">. This was twice the warp length that Denise recommends in her book. I knew I would have plenty of warp to experiment to my heart's desire.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;"><b>What Is Colcolastic Cotton Yarn?</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">Denise's instructions call for Colcolastic cotton yarn for one of the weft yarns. This is a yarn that I was unfamiliar with, but after a quick Internet search, I found it at Lone Star Loom Room. When I received the yarn (in a very short amount of time), I discovered that the yarn is a two-stranded yarn: One strand is 20/2 cotton and one strand is a thin elastic, and these two yarns are wound together onto the spool. I could make my own yarn by using one strand of 20/2 Tubular Spectrum mercerized cotton yarn and combining it with any of our thin elastic yarns: ramie, cotton, silk. The color possibilities are endless!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">And how did these two yarns wind onto a bobbin? No problem there. I have since used both a hand winder and an electric bobbin winder to wind the spools from two cones and have not had any trouble with the yarns getting tangled either as I wound onto the spools or while I was weaving. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm8sJTzutiM_0ID2JJIF_fCC8wzBF2z0tzHqlUawV-QsOdMnQAfNGWv4WmXMVINQT8snHJYmfhiLL-FnqKNWbHiqkAOB12NNlqye9rscTDddMlcQHGAkZi8VtTwhrcwsSyEDFb9ThAr6HPDqNolLIqix6KcuCEykQ_MSqAo_IZkCEO8roXc1LhwC8vdvE/s600/Mercerized%20and%20Elastics.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm8sJTzutiM_0ID2JJIF_fCC8wzBF2z0tzHqlUawV-QsOdMnQAfNGWv4WmXMVINQT8snHJYmfhiLL-FnqKNWbHiqkAOB12NNlqye9rscTDddMlcQHGAkZi8VtTwhrcwsSyEDFb9ThAr6HPDqNolLIqix6KcuCEykQ_MSqAo_IZkCEO8roXc1LhwC8vdvE/w334-h400/Mercerized%20and%20Elastics.jpg" width="334" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Play Time!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Three days of class trying different yarns and learning how the weave structure works and interacts with the weft yarns. It was heavenly! I tried elastic ramie, elastic silk, elastic cotton, both by themselves and with cotton yarns. I experimented with weft yarn colors to see how the two layers interacted. So much experimenting and so many things to try!</span></div><div style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtWZRY_rSfX4MCQ3RUCR2TTGa_hgjyzURjob1b-Rk5b6lRctMdYmAkFMiZ4mcOqENelDwYBoOZ5Bd9HyDPv6qMxTvqs0rxD8vXtUwelV8PpAYBltvx73iiB1HnATjf0Q4P1HJFztoI58hbHkU7WuKaOtrDLOQr4TjqjUl4blDTAAxn5-b6LoHUSOykur4/s500/Scarf%20Samples.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="500" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtWZRY_rSfX4MCQ3RUCR2TTGa_hgjyzURjob1b-Rk5b6lRctMdYmAkFMiZ4mcOqENelDwYBoOZ5Bd9HyDPv6qMxTvqs0rxD8vXtUwelV8PpAYBltvx73iiB1HnATjf0Q4P1HJFztoI58hbHkU7WuKaOtrDLOQr4TjqjUl4blDTAAxn5-b6LoHUSOykur4/w400-h280/Scarf%20Samples.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not So Plain Weave.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Denise designed an interesting project: The first 18" is doubleweave with a top layer and a bottom layer. When I first warped the loom and sleyed the reed, I couldn't understand how we were going to get a functional fabric in those first 18" from the big spaces that are in between the yarns on each layer. There are gaps of about 1/4 inch! I trusted Denise's instructions and wove the fabric with the weft yarn floating across those gaps. When the fabric is washed, the warp yarn shifts over to fill the gaps and you can an interesting, almost plain-weave fabric with lots of drape.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsoz9oKGriLUodRoJ422VwfvPhn728go1ZHTywI8XEATbSCj8cftNWjdc37wu10AXyDqOWTFFTvlWcTEyGGp01iFsXvBaR8Fvcm3SRg1PTJN727DN3CGpToNu92fXBHptxStm_OWwNwVZBL5eg06KnsubkBFmfYK6-oZdexjZvwvANU-8GPoYXCEFU7pQ/s500/End%20Section%20unwashed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsoz9oKGriLUodRoJ422VwfvPhn728go1ZHTywI8XEATbSCj8cftNWjdc37wu10AXyDqOWTFFTvlWcTEyGGp01iFsXvBaR8Fvcm3SRg1PTJN727DN3CGpToNu92fXBHptxStm_OWwNwVZBL5eg06KnsubkBFmfYK6-oZdexjZvwvANU-8GPoYXCEFU7pQ/w400-h400/End%20Section%20unwashed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><i>Plain-weave section before washing</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYKJ3jffO3wEU8R4nw4Whr-999oCc2jbJ78u1EPU_gNU4UleTvJU5sDbqorM-EAozdXnt3IDc6XDHhUS8Ni4sCJvVEc-UlO82tBajZoccOVjcIBhyphenhyphenpUbZkm2eOzqjcNgHWqcBfizejZjmkDfmeuQ66XaxZChfrh-6jcVfo7fVeMsOyMi6Fc_qIDc_T8io/s500/End%20Section%20washed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYKJ3jffO3wEU8R4nw4Whr-999oCc2jbJ78u1EPU_gNU4UleTvJU5sDbqorM-EAozdXnt3IDc6XDHhUS8Ni4sCJvVEc-UlO82tBajZoccOVjcIBhyphenhyphenpUbZkm2eOzqjcNgHWqcBfizejZjmkDfmeuQ66XaxZChfrh-6jcVfo7fVeMsOyMi6Fc_qIDc_T8io/w400-h400/End%20Section%20washed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><i style="font-family: times;">Plain-weave section after washing</i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Splash! Now to Make Things Go Bump!</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-style: inherit; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">The center section of the scarf contains the elastic and cotton weft. There is a nice texture to the fabric while on the loom, but it is relatively flat. And the fabric remains flat when you take it off the loom. The magic really happens when the fabric gets wet! When washed, the elastic in the weft shrinks up and takes the warp yarns along for a ride, creating ridges in the fabrics. The 20/2 weft yarns bubble up and make a loopy texture on one side of the fabric. You can stretch the fabric out to see how it originally looked, but when you let it go, the pleats reappear. Magical!</span></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="fl-col-group fl-node-6zche79a24gq" data-node="6zche79a24gq" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="fl-col fl-node-mq6kiebyjfvc" data-node="mq6kiebyjfvc" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 657.195px;"><div class="fl-col-content fl-node-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="fl-module fl-module-rich-text fl-node-e63wu1vm4yxt" data-node="e63wu1vm4yxt" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="fl-module-content fl-node-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; 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box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="fl-rich-text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.25em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwdv0hJWPRGVqiUu9AfcalmhxzA6yEd1OCljWOmB11tGFYDkmZZD6th7TtQ4RgwJNjDYWIWeu6FIX8JpZpzX8rpXYcCMH6l89L1ehoQ8zLSxGEj0Ud8EAmwjNWW9kZYmheHZSHx_UFvgiewnRV40OGCFmq2Gr5ABU78Cu_3DdjSpXqWMuavtC_EWw_zQ/s500/Center%20Section%20unwashed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwdv0hJWPRGVqiUu9AfcalmhxzA6yEd1OCljWOmB11tGFYDkmZZD6th7TtQ4RgwJNjDYWIWeu6FIX8JpZpzX8rpXYcCMH6l89L1ehoQ8zLSxGEj0Ud8EAmwjNWW9kZYmheHZSHx_UFvgiewnRV40OGCFmq2Gr5ABU78Cu_3DdjSpXqWMuavtC_EWw_zQ/w400-h400/Center%20Section%20unwashed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Center section before washing</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioOuOu9cXCjtb8JDe5zsMzsXbLp1fUZfWAq9NuyNMEldSUSvSLocAp5EfLptXS-eIVCo40KwHdwa0uqhXDWeNe-7xPvwCAHgpdWft7d0Nha6BrKYm-Pxx9CiQh4oJ1ahNG1qHx3XspSFtGGjhjkWss0IZg9q0khhTYIu2Z5aZ_T3_STSo-_1016FIPLuY/s500/Center%20Section%20washed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioOuOu9cXCjtb8JDe5zsMzsXbLp1fUZfWAq9NuyNMEldSUSvSLocAp5EfLptXS-eIVCo40KwHdwa0uqhXDWeNe-7xPvwCAHgpdWft7d0Nha6BrKYm-Pxx9CiQh4oJ1ahNG1qHx3XspSFtGGjhjkWss0IZg9q0khhTYIu2Z5aZ_T3_STSo-_1016FIPLuY/w400-h400/Center%20Section%20washed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Center section after washing</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">To the Loom!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">When I left Logan, my brain was bursting with new ideas and I have been spending lots of time at the loom finishing up the first batch of scarves and working on new ones. Thanks Denise for a wonderful workshop!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi58032hZKePuIIDrWg04CwJsOksndnogCj_OJL5BDV0R80hHR1b-diShlb8XQRLTcx4gK-90TBzDZLqVdaHsC5kocyxmS8DB6uqUECjYjLNmFfwvhJbZvC7o2FN6FlGwrXxuWqiUAnB657hOsnZbo0rwJLYPJB9hrlUIdhgE5o_PFJRCc_pTeZYwquwQ4/s650/Finished%20but%20unwashed%20scarf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi58032hZKePuIIDrWg04CwJsOksndnogCj_OJL5BDV0R80hHR1b-diShlb8XQRLTcx4gK-90TBzDZLqVdaHsC5kocyxmS8DB6uqUECjYjLNmFfwvhJbZvC7o2FN6FlGwrXxuWqiUAnB657hOsnZbo0rwJLYPJB9hrlUIdhgE5o_PFJRCc_pTeZYwquwQ4/w308-h400/Finished%20but%20unwashed%20scarf.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Finished scarf before washing</i></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="color: #4b4f58; font-family: times; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4b4f58; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 2.25em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-84763374457150899462023-09-23T16:41:00.007-04:002023-09-23T18:50:12.704-04:00Join Me for a 'Thread Talk' on October 5<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNr0nPtJEElsIeZL0b-kOFBznZaC3CPFzZayeymQbXq4YuSQuLFppe5Y8LfnnFkbfnFhPaBOl2ZumEuI2FAtP3EGlqCaaZ2OqspAXY8bC1DzLYhQUhB7YAvhqwLr_Vw_Rt39aPhmemQKKB7SdY6mDBTumhK7R6pQuGp3BFboi-U0RC8cWR1IgkMvMqIrA/s1200/Copy%20of%20SWW%20-%20Blank%20(Facebook)%20-%20Public.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNr0nPtJEElsIeZL0b-kOFBznZaC3CPFzZayeymQbXq4YuSQuLFppe5Y8LfnnFkbfnFhPaBOl2ZumEuI2FAtP3EGlqCaaZ2OqspAXY8bC1DzLYhQUhB7YAvhqwLr_Vw_Rt39aPhmemQKKB7SdY6mDBTumhK7R6pQuGp3BFboi-U0RC8cWR1IgkMvMqIrA/w640-h336/Copy%20of%20SWW%20-%20Blank%20(Facebook)%20-%20Public.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> Above is my most recent post on Facebook, promoting a 10-minute "Thread Talk" I'll be giving during Spinning and Weaving Week.<p></p><p>It's a wonderful opportunity for me to talk about craft, why we humans have always been makers, and how inspiration can come to us like a bolt out of the blue -- even to the point where we don't know how it happened or where it came from.</p><p>My talk is based on a longer presentation I've given at guilds and conferences, looking at craft around the globe and throughout history. The discussion reaches as far back as the cave paintings of Chauvet, France, discovered in 1994, which are thought to be around 33,000 years old. Drawn in charcoal on stone, these images were created at a time when Neanderthals still walked the earth.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4dPYA21en6VxAe9Uiofa5X0E6AKeoE7V8qswBUE0oBa45P_vWoo04Qd5OHgPFTf1-8K43OKZ_6euXVCRm63qbuqu4douzOaK3Us9wx0bYLoUvnAVaq0q8rrtZBjl0esdNYCox0qVN-ynE8SCdgBTTVJZNC9xdTcemextviACtqcQPjR5JlosG6c8fx4/s735/Chauvet.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="735" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm4dPYA21en6VxAe9Uiofa5X0E6AKeoE7V8qswBUE0oBa45P_vWoo04Qd5OHgPFTf1-8K43OKZ_6euXVCRm63qbuqu4douzOaK3Us9wx0bYLoUvnAVaq0q8rrtZBjl0esdNYCox0qVN-ynE8SCdgBTTVJZNC9xdTcemextviACtqcQPjR5JlosG6c8fx4/w391-h260/Chauvet.jpeg" width="391" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Humans have been working with and manipulating materials as far back as we know, creating objects and images of great beauty like those above -- whether they were designed to be useful, representational, or inspirational. Or perhaps all three.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some estimates state that the tradition of weaving began as long as 12,000 years ago -- but the practice of spinning and dyeing is much older than that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3gsWGcgjtSa2xIdjmVqmC-Yfyil3FlKFrT1yy_uMpefVnxAF3uUjxKKY1537vC9wcfqgqpVKrRW_C6PYEMhWvL9a5di3mJzegUCHAyr-N0GkEQqAitdCcNLJqxnRyOb8FrhQww6XVKaB7efpU9iZXeWedxhI9svs_pWGVtzYXqX_DppuAFK7H2O3WbK0/s600/Flax%20fibers.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="105" data-original-width="600" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3gsWGcgjtSa2xIdjmVqmC-Yfyil3FlKFrT1yy_uMpefVnxAF3uUjxKKY1537vC9wcfqgqpVKrRW_C6PYEMhWvL9a5di3mJzegUCHAyr-N0GkEQqAitdCcNLJqxnRyOb8FrhQww6XVKaB7efpU9iZXeWedxhI9svs_pWGVtzYXqX_DppuAFK7H2O3WbK0/w640-h112/Flax%20fibers.webp" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Pictured above: the oldest dyed flax fiber found to date: a microscopic image of the fiber, at least 30,000 years old, found in a cave in the republic of Georgia. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We'll look at Homer and his story of Penelope, who wove and unwove her father-in-law's shroud, a journey of sorts that reflects her husband's odyssey.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiX5zP5UbNWa8BBEjuluSCNs2w_oAm4aSNQ4lHiik537wZ9gN-61WQWlRLqKikxp61_CwjJ_LOnih8vtG1Bxj7KBnP9yz_iglhzZ1_vrHVvOuECasfzp5ZWCbR3x_s78HaBw3e_etBYyXvd55eX-MHXKQ4gaVumOA5PIb9QoeX4MziJtHpS7m3ODz-oCM/s949/Penelope%20statue.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="949" data-original-width="668" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiX5zP5UbNWa8BBEjuluSCNs2w_oAm4aSNQ4lHiik537wZ9gN-61WQWlRLqKikxp61_CwjJ_LOnih8vtG1Bxj7KBnP9yz_iglhzZ1_vrHVvOuECasfzp5ZWCbR3x_s78HaBw3e_etBYyXvd55eX-MHXKQ4gaVumOA5PIb9QoeX4MziJtHpS7m3ODz-oCM/w450-h640/Penelope%20statue.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sculpture of Penelope, Roman copy of a Greek original,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>circa 460 B.C.E., Vatican museums</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We then move far forward in history, to the quilter's of Gee's Bend, to Andrew Wyeth as he paints Christina's pink dress, and on to the crystal chandeliers at the Metropolitan Opera House -- but I won't give it all away. I'll just end with an image of my own work, hand-dyed and woven on 12 shafts in reeled silk, one of my favorite pieces to date.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4crS9KFmf3a5R1LfJMnP5wNfIomAXDxlIRxli8mhH2r_dGJjEctotz9rZ6k7-ADifzl5SEdFvy1JgQP34Y3RA5pRAelrV1InQxhC1ut_XZZqWrM2a0atdK_gKA8c6Vge3aBas3B9MSdPE0RGLLRbZBsRQ1uXiPp3bP07PL70jSKR08RCDP464p33dnk/s1310/Pagoda%20detail.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="1310" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4crS9KFmf3a5R1LfJMnP5wNfIomAXDxlIRxli8mhH2r_dGJjEctotz9rZ6k7-ADifzl5SEdFvy1JgQP34Y3RA5pRAelrV1InQxhC1ut_XZZqWrM2a0atdK_gKA8c6Vge3aBas3B9MSdPE0RGLLRbZBsRQ1uXiPp3bP07PL70jSKR08RCDP464p33dnk/w400-h266/Pagoda%20detail.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For a full schedule of events, including my Thread Talk and others, click here:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="goog_212590523"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://weavespindye.org/spinning-and-weaving-week-schedule-and-registration/">https://weavespindye.org/spinning-and-weaving-week-schedule-and-registration/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The entire schedule isn't up just yet, so keep checking back for updates.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading! Hope you listen in.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-69525041533700132592023-08-19T11:56:00.000-04:002023-08-19T11:56:17.759-04:00New Zoom Workshop Beginning October 14: 'Weaving Outside the Box: 12 Projects for Creating Dimensional Cloth'<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Agn2X7KrFbqEaaZgOkUfZn0u1DW3KIE6v4C5zMyDObM4plzdtKcr00fl2_sKk7QWrXR13_8JMguMOdwRhYtC6KAsGClcgGgUIldyRa_9ZrB7r62acT1VVOEtr9bavZritmasKFMD8CEF5Lx9h3qTqDAu_tS7Vxu159ULYacxBuZsIujroafa0bNwVlA/s1235/kovnat-orange-wrap.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1235" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Agn2X7KrFbqEaaZgOkUfZn0u1DW3KIE6v4C5zMyDObM4plzdtKcr00fl2_sKk7QWrXR13_8JMguMOdwRhYtC6KAsGClcgGgUIldyRa_9ZrB7r62acT1VVOEtr9bavZritmasKFMD8CEF5Lx9h3qTqDAu_tS7Vxu159ULYacxBuZsIujroafa0bNwVlA/w242-h400/kovnat-orange-wrap.png" width="242" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Based on my book of the same name, this workshop is being offered for the first time online -- thanks to MAFA, the <a href="https://www.lessonface.com/mafa" target="_blank">Mid-Atlantic Fiber Association</a>, which is offering Zoom workshops this fall for weavers near and far.</p><p>For three Saturdays in October, you'll weave a project of your choice from the book, on 4, 6, 8, 12, or 16 shafts. The photo above, woven on 4 shafts, is one of the projects you can choose from. </p><p>Here's the link to register: <a href="https://www.lessonface.com/apply/Weaving-Outside-Box-12-Projects-Creating-Dimensional-Cloth">https://www.lessonface.com/apply/Weaving-Outside-Box-12-Projects-Creating-Dimensional-Cloth</a></p><p>And here are photos of a few more of the projects you can weave at home, on your own time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1T6ILfQUonePGnIEwJDmlkEab41ZgcLXkuUfE07ahGCTIXoqg48pK8Hi6SxpwxhsGBaxF-RKu3f9QxIF53-vsccqfQw8MKuLlsR7PomRWEuP46vTXbo5eFw-7YBtffZ6C6dviyrwqrrdvk8IPosKij_Sd7Zo9tqWRckQJ8x0gLf4q72iHtdnp3et1jF4/s1085/Ruffles%20Scarf%20on%208%20shafts%202.03.10%20PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1085" data-original-width="724" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1T6ILfQUonePGnIEwJDmlkEab41ZgcLXkuUfE07ahGCTIXoqg48pK8Hi6SxpwxhsGBaxF-RKu3f9QxIF53-vsccqfQw8MKuLlsR7PomRWEuP46vTXbo5eFw-7YBtffZ6C6dviyrwqrrdvk8IPosKij_Sd7Zo9tqWRckQJ8x0gLf4q72iHtdnp3et1jF4/w268-h400/Ruffles%20Scarf%20on%208%20shafts%202.03.10%20PM.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Ruffles Scarf," 8 shaft doubleweave using differential-shrinkage</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRsnEqHtfOnxjJBjUEG1uPHM8de26zuMZ4V8RBmHNBF40oabhulNfn2aZrzio5lFj4QJ1MYfwr3_MrI4j1ZszQJhLnditGa6E20lV3HYacHX6hQlt1qPKpw9TcYR4t1htH_ZcftL6Ph_-xNIzI7OOAMiV7P7dXht6Dij8tSdaBZYsj1mKJgujYIkvIb4I/s4000/_12A8141_detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2668" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRsnEqHtfOnxjJBjUEG1uPHM8de26zuMZ4V8RBmHNBF40oabhulNfn2aZrzio5lFj4QJ1MYfwr3_MrI4j1ZszQJhLnditGa6E20lV3HYacHX6hQlt1qPKpw9TcYR4t1htH_ZcftL6Ph_-xNIzI7OOAMiV7P7dXht6Dij8tSdaBZYsj1mKJgujYIkvIb4I/w266-h400/_12A8141_detail.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Shawl on 6 shafts, detail, deflected doubleweave and fulling techniques</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH7xwry_8IrjG7jEEF_fw5hBAErc1N5OE3sCVRi8Rv-aWyqIhKJvt9uNtvWVoOrA6T4moFDtvkCQcppWiMTaRjvvFQoyFL3wQU862v079Qhjbe7JZGU4nBqZ9t43ii-u8Ow0YvHb6h-8EpAZ_smov1Hfm9gTITOa2WnlrIIVG3AlJkccwzqSRiloGqCvQ/s1986/Cover%20photo.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1986" data-original-width="1360" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH7xwry_8IrjG7jEEF_fw5hBAErc1N5OE3sCVRi8Rv-aWyqIhKJvt9uNtvWVoOrA6T4moFDtvkCQcppWiMTaRjvvFQoyFL3wQU862v079Qhjbe7JZGU4nBqZ9t43ii-u8Ow0YvHb6h-8EpAZ_smov1Hfm9gTITOa2WnlrIIVG3AlJkccwzqSRiloGqCvQ/w274-h400/Cover%20photo.jpeg" width="274" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Scarf from the book cover, 4 shafts, wool/stainless-steel and 20/2 cotton yarns</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLX3xKf4Shq6BbcXpmz9VSIg_Q2aCjVMB1IojWPM_FjiMrPIob5NTNj7k8EPnsqGa3zBPERuV8SvxThmcuXYHjUbuDdyenxDgaTWNwomGDRzpmTw4xhVW_BGMFuG_ZCktiuXSLm_rTcAJXCSOg0pndcFbG-WDT5_vtuOQvM_AYR-0UCvxeF-Ab0WJxovg/s1024/Silk%20Stainless%20Steel%20Scarf.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLX3xKf4Shq6BbcXpmz9VSIg_Q2aCjVMB1IojWPM_FjiMrPIob5NTNj7k8EPnsqGa3zBPERuV8SvxThmcuXYHjUbuDdyenxDgaTWNwomGDRzpmTw4xhVW_BGMFuG_ZCktiuXSLm_rTcAJXCSOg0pndcFbG-WDT5_vtuOQvM_AYR-0UCvxeF-Ab0WJxovg/w300-h400/Silk%20Stainless%20Steel%20Scarf.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">8-shaft scarf in 60/2 silk, pleats in turned twill</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYoZeXVf8EME_6i8gfyebFuSfLeDm0hY0M6HNQC7C4VCy3S3DJrjduv3kObSSBIhjC-o467_1clPyZ1vgTRdErb_wfzKvE3DRGE1wv3GEHDcPF3BTSOpHHxcVHsvlJxDs_XazDsMWxlPjWOyxwMQhx5V7-HenU7KN2WoeZkZydf8gCqRLrTNoMqQF8S7A/s400/4%20shaft%20Dots.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="259" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYoZeXVf8EME_6i8gfyebFuSfLeDm0hY0M6HNQC7C4VCy3S3DJrjduv3kObSSBIhjC-o467_1clPyZ1vgTRdErb_wfzKvE3DRGE1wv3GEHDcPF3BTSOpHHxcVHsvlJxDs_XazDsMWxlPjWOyxwMQhx5V7-HenU7KN2WoeZkZydf8gCqRLrTNoMqQF8S7A/w259-h400/4%20shaft%20Dots.jpeg" width="259" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">4-shaft scarf in deflected doubleweave, using Colcolastic (cotton/elastic yarn) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">to create shrinkage in center</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSt1HSfcQk4at6BopdUibDNoyz7oUnsaISEts0eH2R8YqI-yogmIey5OVjYhN6sPF8hjAIVO07NOhbQJ6uO1BGizsUeycaw9lO055ALZDyUMvx7yn58O1v_LHo3BezLhdarAkS4uB_PJ0gN6TNKHN9VMiUqPCts90jF4EfQjf0qeETudP824Gd60T4R9A/s1085/gQ1ILQCKRpq72mCFVp8AhA_thumb_78c3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1085" data-original-width="724" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSt1HSfcQk4at6BopdUibDNoyz7oUnsaISEts0eH2R8YqI-yogmIey5OVjYhN6sPF8hjAIVO07NOhbQJ6uO1BGizsUeycaw9lO055ALZDyUMvx7yn58O1v_LHo3BezLhdarAkS4uB_PJ0gN6TNKHN9VMiUqPCts90jF4EfQjf0qeETudP824Gd60T4R9A/w268-h400/gQ1ILQCKRpq72mCFVp8AhA_thumb_78c3.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Woven-shibori scarf on 4 shafts, differential-shrinkage techniques</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Participants will learn how to optimize the effects of structure, energized yarns, and finishing techniques to achieve three-dimensional texture in their cloth. The goal is to venture off the rectilinear grid of handwoven cloth, exploiting texture to work with color and form, adding interest and tactile appeal to your woven creations. It all happens in the wash and the results are often surprising!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A summary of the focus of this workshop, taken from the back of the book:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Color and structure are key elements in weaving, of course. But we often overlook the importance of texture. Dimensional fabrics, with their pleats, puffs, and curves, take us off the grid, reflecting the organic forms of nature. We can both see and feel the tactile quality of dimensional cloth, which adds much to the beauty of handwoven fabric.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you're interested or if you have questions, please send me an email (click on the "About Me" section on the front page of this blog, at the right, then click on "Email" underneath my photo). And yes, one enticement: <a href="https://lunaticfringeyarns.com/" target="_blank">Lunatic Fringe Yarns</a> is offering participants a coupon on the special yarns that are used on several of the projects.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for reading!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVkfWe3ydxRsIXKgy6Z673VdqoqO8KL_1fHsPaq4Ueap2K8LTUQlMAMBh0xMnEo0x3ptNifVWK_FtWjrwkCDMBCcX5FPZ7_pXnI9PZu1n-z-yK3fdyj2j22OHf3mB5n2VdpdWkA3d0DfmS_vDZBAUWilKZFeS4cr9i46nHOoMK3-biZa4dyMiQEC81r_E/s3888/84A77DFD-86AD-4D8A-869C-8936047DEB6A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVkfWe3ydxRsIXKgy6Z673VdqoqO8KL_1fHsPaq4Ueap2K8LTUQlMAMBh0xMnEo0x3ptNifVWK_FtWjrwkCDMBCcX5FPZ7_pXnI9PZu1n-z-yK3fdyj2j22OHf3mB5n2VdpdWkA3d0DfmS_vDZBAUWilKZFeS4cr9i46nHOoMK3-biZa4dyMiQEC81r_E/w200-h133/84A77DFD-86AD-4D8A-869C-8936047DEB6A.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-33160424769872869112023-07-26T10:55:00.003-04:002023-07-26T10:57:17.633-04:00Here's the News from NEWS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Ulql8_wOg5RqifYSf2mkaVPIQhEmG2NxSmbnJVcW2zYWvAOtsWAx_5G_fEYx-dL3I4YrFUkchBfuypvTh3ptSLjTfPT0hOMXuant4zsvC1VQrLFJZIlBo6j5wH9vixuuOqAIl3QZqCHEv5j9kwUNzeVkvQ9VK_j8BRyEH6fk96jgiryOWLFTcGTZtfc/s4032/Jin%20and%20Shadow%20Weave%20by%20Diana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Ulql8_wOg5RqifYSf2mkaVPIQhEmG2NxSmbnJVcW2zYWvAOtsWAx_5G_fEYx-dL3I4YrFUkchBfuypvTh3ptSLjTfPT0hOMXuant4zsvC1VQrLFJZIlBo6j5wH9vixuuOqAIl3QZqCHEv5j9kwUNzeVkvQ9VK_j8BRyEH6fk96jgiryOWLFTcGTZtfc/w300-h400/Jin%20and%20Shadow%20Weave%20by%20Diana.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />Last week I taught at the New England Weavers Seminar -- well known as NEWS -- in Worcester, Massachusetts. Not only was it run very well (right down to the excellent IPA I had at the dinner for jurors and NEWS committee members), but I had a great time teaching my workshop, "One Warp, Many Structures: Explorations in Extended Parallel Threading." <p></p><p>Everybody was enthusiastic and their samples showed it -- as you can see from the 12-shaft samples above, woven in Jin (bottom) and Shadow Weave (top) by Diana Vaughan.</p><p>Diana was one of the conference organizers (forgive me that I can't recall her specific title) and the entire volunteer team did a terrific job in planning and running this big event, which may be the largest of the regional conferences in the U.S. (I don't have any research to back this up, just hearsay and a glance at the long list of attendees.)</p><p>I figure that, since weaving is such a visual craft, the best way for me to describe the workshop is to show it in photos. Unfortunately, I took pictures only at the end of the workshop on Sunday, so Amy Somerstein had already packed up her loom and left -- leaving me with no images of her beautiful work! But I think I got images of everyone else and if I didn't, my apologies.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip--pVV76bRQIrhT0fZGeUPgnr4ROJu7eP1t7zbFk4PfeYxyfNXMVB0RcCgvT8j2CtANmSv8496gym8mLC2_1vEDb0H5Uo7Adreo-Gv2-wHgxJEjsxnUyUuVbwLdl1Xxw9SAl6FbGDqOjDqcJDu41uwEq4LYLpwW132gR2DL4E4RZiJw5uKDf_eZ2UUQQ/s4032/Deb%20and%20Fun%20House.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip--pVV76bRQIrhT0fZGeUPgnr4ROJu7eP1t7zbFk4PfeYxyfNXMVB0RcCgvT8j2CtANmSv8496gym8mLC2_1vEDb0H5Uo7Adreo-Gv2-wHgxJEjsxnUyUuVbwLdl1Xxw9SAl6FbGDqOjDqcJDu41uwEq4LYLpwW132gR2DL4E4RZiJw5uKDf_eZ2UUQQ/w300-h400/Deb%20and%20Fun%20House.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Debra Colo Nemetz here with her Doubleweave samples </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>of the eight-shaft "Falling Stars" pattern</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFt14A51yiWy7iGID8DhSF46hXRKwC-AaTytMEB05-f_a75szfWYK6klI3z0snGBqmxGKrAyoPuzEVIrW2m3zVqlvh8lQrOWskph3wYyMsK8zztSylglaA-nhVsaG6HXcxhz_ad-5txHh7_t-hx7ppPCY00QxWN-it6d71Y4SVPZqJ0D1TPyJLsiKe_ws/s4032/Jennifer's%20Falling%20Stars%20Rep.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFt14A51yiWy7iGID8DhSF46hXRKwC-AaTytMEB05-f_a75szfWYK6klI3z0snGBqmxGKrAyoPuzEVIrW2m3zVqlvh8lQrOWskph3wYyMsK8zztSylglaA-nhVsaG6HXcxhz_ad-5txHh7_t-hx7ppPCY00QxWN-it6d71Y4SVPZqJ0D1TPyJLsiKe_ws/w300-h400/Jennifer's%20Falling%20Stars%20Rep.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Jennifer Rogers also wove </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Falling Stars, shown here as Rep</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1181zHKpnbWpcnrCSBgiLBuDO1fEGfHJsNS8bdILb4DDZKs23PSswj9fnlWoDlyYtVIuBGxV2SPZo3HwqVt40-wUIegqg3R00HY1PlhNQFZ3CoQKXQ_55Ka6RyDl19R4IqV7_jmWeGbPJsX6Z7JzY9kpZWkTZj9OEx32tq8MqTg7m9WXjw71qAWDJCHo/s4032/Jennifer%20on%20the%20floor.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1181zHKpnbWpcnrCSBgiLBuDO1fEGfHJsNS8bdILb4DDZKs23PSswj9fnlWoDlyYtVIuBGxV2SPZo3HwqVt40-wUIegqg3R00HY1PlhNQFZ3CoQKXQ_55Ka6RyDl19R4IqV7_jmWeGbPJsX6Z7JzY9kpZWkTZj9OEx32tq8MqTg7m9WXjw71qAWDJCHo/w300-h400/Jennifer%20on%20the%20floor.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><i>Jennifer on the floor re-tying treadles. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>For those with floor looms, </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>this had to happen a lot....</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCeVUl6Dky-awlxQHJxYfcXOJ385W2RWaXgH4ctl99BB0Iftc9BB9zUiuY6qHSWcY338UNYkFZjATl709udk7lzPz2ead23K1DvR7Yi21SoI0dfbFyk4guV5NZg4SkkytyFt6dfyEHUVtz_jRpAQnU8HBP8hZtpDsN6EvvYIKuK5jSLs3YFfDfDH435E8/s4032/Fran%20Osten.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCeVUl6Dky-awlxQHJxYfcXOJ385W2RWaXgH4ctl99BB0Iftc9BB9zUiuY6qHSWcY338UNYkFZjATl709udk7lzPz2ead23K1DvR7Yi21SoI0dfbFyk4guV5NZg4SkkytyFt6dfyEHUVtz_jRpAQnU8HBP8hZtpDsN6EvvYIKuK5jSLs3YFfDfDH435E8/w300-h400/Fran%20Osten.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Fran Osten wove an eight-shaft pattern called "Fun House" on a gradient warp. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The blue and magenta yarns each shifted from dark to light values going right to left, </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>adding lots of depth and interest to her samples.</i></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46ZE2Vq-s2VZ2UuhWyX2SGuFRgsoQBaBsjHiQkF3e-fEt-uFHiXDe-ICgg9ML8sUcgmWrHw0I-RUGVq-i690an2fpGpwrsCqhjCt8FCHwy2tZBfwvwJ66sY2xpvVpDd-7-wVdeMbe6q69kFH1PO8AvmN08XKBYaIe5gimf9CQTN-4mF65d9inOAd_Etg/s4032/Many%20Rivers%20as%20Shadow%20Weave%20by%20Barbara%20Keller.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46ZE2Vq-s2VZ2UuhWyX2SGuFRgsoQBaBsjHiQkF3e-fEt-uFHiXDe-ICgg9ML8sUcgmWrHw0I-RUGVq-i690an2fpGpwrsCqhjCt8FCHwy2tZBfwvwJ66sY2xpvVpDd-7-wVdeMbe6q69kFH1PO8AvmN08XKBYaIe5gimf9CQTN-4mF65d9inOAd_Etg/w300-h400/Many%20Rivers%20as%20Shadow%20Weave%20by%20Barbara%20Keller.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><i>Here's the Shadow Weave version of the eight-shaft pattern "Many Rivers," </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>woven by Barbara Keller</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORqemMtEVJr3fi7q7NTQy2xC2F-SpYu-egJEPzQKqPkGqUcYKdgax-i1i1KaJyQAy-mgQbT9fH09ZmFM1aDI7SErzG3unWlRFFRkn2ZF0pRx_vRT2zrbkWvT0JX24tzH09NE_GAoojTsJe2Eu5tv-Bh1m-NbkxazoKkPN4XwJ9xcxO2Gp9b3ag8krQSY/s4032/Barbara%20Keller.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORqemMtEVJr3fi7q7NTQy2xC2F-SpYu-egJEPzQKqPkGqUcYKdgax-i1i1KaJyQAy-mgQbT9fH09ZmFM1aDI7SErzG3unWlRFFRkn2ZF0pRx_vRT2zrbkWvT0JX24tzH09NE_GAoojTsJe2Eu5tv-Bh1m-NbkxazoKkPN4XwJ9xcxO2Gp9b3ag8krQSY/w300-h400/Barbara%20Keller.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><i>Barbara Keller herself</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg6hMvUCl7CBEnIdd6VAQ9-OUuRke3gO7OsVmjrHdfcEJ4pgROTsIemPX15FpVmiDk5nCx2cwYFPKsV8JFBurjnLWPZk11I8fqJfdjXotFZrMUyzy1SOt7DfM2WfgO4OIXkGuGUCZ0rpVor3NqlOx2QzRjvcOCIK_YbNN8dqKWK7Vhm_PHPaACYxK2kvI/s4032/Sylvie's%20Many%20Rivers%20as%20Rep.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg6hMvUCl7CBEnIdd6VAQ9-OUuRke3gO7OsVmjrHdfcEJ4pgROTsIemPX15FpVmiDk5nCx2cwYFPKsV8JFBurjnLWPZk11I8fqJfdjXotFZrMUyzy1SOt7DfM2WfgO4OIXkGuGUCZ0rpVor3NqlOx2QzRjvcOCIK_YbNN8dqKWK7Vhm_PHPaACYxK2kvI/w300-h400/Sylvie's%20Many%20Rivers%20as%20Rep.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><i>Sylvie Faucher of Quebec also wove "Many Rivers," shown here as Rep.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>(Sylvie was camera-shy, so I didn't get a good photo of her, unfortunately.)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUPE4CKwpauo3747nsP8zhnrv4Ylx63Nwl3cU92tm0gccg9F617k-5dKhtz1FY00YSxjlqm49ywDW8MFYgV2Oo_0wkjwROcTh4VG59TUan0rym8073QFws_h8I-a5tjbIgWN1kAo1LnhrQDEoBZum239XLPMnDgXZwoaMqESCUAY6uFTJ6MVwOjqdA410/s4032/Danyelle%20Fun%20House%20Rep.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUPE4CKwpauo3747nsP8zhnrv4Ylx63Nwl3cU92tm0gccg9F617k-5dKhtz1FY00YSxjlqm49ywDW8MFYgV2Oo_0wkjwROcTh4VG59TUan0rym8073QFws_h8I-a5tjbIgWN1kAo1LnhrQDEoBZum239XLPMnDgXZwoaMqESCUAY6uFTJ6MVwOjqdA410/w300-h400/Danyelle%20Fun%20House%20Rep.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><i>Danyelle Brodeur, also of Quebec, weaving the Rep version of Fun House.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A few years ago, I noticed that one of the favorite patterns in Carol Strickler's book was #728, a multiple-tabby design that allows for many colors in the warp and never ceases to grab you with its treadling rhythm. I realized that it could easily be adapted for Echo, Jin, Shadow Weave, Rep, Doubleweave -- all the designs in this workshop -- so I added it to the workshop. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaoqnchWrCA2AeFnIE6viBbcTWIg5Zo7nn81SjL7GmN6QeVX67VYk6DR32PspX6Qy1C53bue7TUJGygIbng7Gqk3NK4ShxMiYA6CVXWNUGVXCwED1HICj3QRgxGbqpkK4KzehselGgdIzW4t_T4Q-EBvrzQTsT_msraRxiQvm9waDoY1YvqoEXwuuz2vE/s4032/Krysten%20Strickler%20%23728.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaoqnchWrCA2AeFnIE6viBbcTWIg5Zo7nn81SjL7GmN6QeVX67VYk6DR32PspX6Qy1C53bue7TUJGygIbng7Gqk3NK4ShxMiYA6CVXWNUGVXCwED1HICj3QRgxGbqpkK4KzehselGgdIzW4t_T4Q-EBvrzQTsT_msraRxiQvm9waDoY1YvqoEXwuuz2vE/w480-h640/Krysten%20Strickler%20%23728.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><i>Echo and Jin variations on #728, the eight-shaft design found in Strickler,</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>woven by Krysten Morganti.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWiUZbs56IV_UbgHTy_2iD6m5vTz6NPmtoi7LaR3ANr1_zABZwd-El4D9dPEAYJWkJo2V39jUApt6SrCkqn0Mvcr8HMn6rwh5aIbaxNrKXJSeksNSo68deLP1UWzQoRneOwj8LChIhEDmGk3YjUr7TpOMxfqjXYNXR_OUuM803A8ZgnC0gQzf-upNEzQ/s4032/Krysten's%20728%20variations.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaWiUZbs56IV_UbgHTy_2iD6m5vTz6NPmtoi7LaR3ANr1_zABZwd-El4D9dPEAYJWkJo2V39jUApt6SrCkqn0Mvcr8HMn6rwh5aIbaxNrKXJSeksNSo68deLP1UWzQoRneOwj8LChIhEDmGk3YjUr7TpOMxfqjXYNXR_OUuM803A8ZgnC0gQzf-upNEzQ/s320/Krysten's%20728%20variations.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>A few other variations by Krysten...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilqYVxXEG8pkxirB1WYtozcF7yHhoF8pv5xONVeRKRTLDterILbSzssfTiw6P2foSIn0VrwwsXklgOFPWZSlv3dY2OoVnE-WE9qJ1irsLe_ifOIOqA5YtEiC_S5ktHKe6wmrIZ5mxLBdVZoO8iwoyowo-TmFUG6bU7PP3_m4OJH1YIGkL4d-SEJfVmHQk/s4032/Krysten%20herself.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilqYVxXEG8pkxirB1WYtozcF7yHhoF8pv5xONVeRKRTLDterILbSzssfTiw6P2foSIn0VrwwsXklgOFPWZSlv3dY2OoVnE-WE9qJ1irsLe_ifOIOqA5YtEiC_S5ktHKe6wmrIZ5mxLBdVZoO8iwoyowo-TmFUG6bU7PP3_m4OJH1YIGkL4d-SEJfVmHQk/w300-h400/Krysten%20herself.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><i>And here's Krysten.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5oNpW6IYhmZ14Thmq8AgBAsmW0UMewnlENTad7Pu8SbSo_wQq2IxlMy0goaz4WbIH9Gt2FAcek9_kcvGIwouabOAAF0KvpFS5aun7LJ0xOPbmOw8vz5NIKJ8h8TgzG8004OxjeEp3KuNrOU3Bf31NUP2VHONjphqNF6QHpnYsrb7IkFouT5wLq1qPGQ/s4032/Diana%20who%20ran%20the%20conference.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5oNpW6IYhmZ14Thmq8AgBAsmW0UMewnlENTad7Pu8SbSo_wQq2IxlMy0goaz4WbIH9Gt2FAcek9_kcvGIwouabOAAF0KvpFS5aun7LJ0xOPbmOw8vz5NIKJ8h8TgzG8004OxjeEp3KuNrOU3Bf31NUP2VHONjphqNF6QHpnYsrb7IkFouT5wLq1qPGQ/w300-h400/Diana%20who%20ran%20the%20conference.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><i>Diana Vaughan ventured into 12-shaft territory </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>with the pattern I call "Pink and Green."</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis2P-F5uGAVD6PcoGOYi86bW1WbzC8kQDgfder_J4bu1ML4SRq0XHQ7tGrceGzsdrHZAnBgNdvDtg3bTbTAUEukxQbodBGE1BHJmhp64Ai_R8gg5V5rt1NZ7eVkYC3GNyNsuPMf3lRXxnH1fiMEBLlHYxMnmrON4SLXjA8X2M4SgObdl2czx6oBKUF2qI/s4032/Diane's%20samples%20on%2012.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis2P-F5uGAVD6PcoGOYi86bW1WbzC8kQDgfder_J4bu1ML4SRq0XHQ7tGrceGzsdrHZAnBgNdvDtg3bTbTAUEukxQbodBGE1BHJmhp64Ai_R8gg5V5rt1NZ7eVkYC3GNyNsuPMf3lRXxnH1fiMEBLlHYxMnmrON4SLXjA8X2M4SgObdl2czx6oBKUF2qI/w480-h640/Diane's%20samples%20on%2012.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><i>Here are some of Diana's samples woven as Echo. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The pattern on the bottom right is particularly striking, </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>with colors ranging from navy to khaki to turquoise to yellow. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>(Her warp was turquoise and dark blue and her weft was orange!)</i><i><br /><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5z0vx5vJafD-RMIeSN81Hn86zBu3aWRies2UxymTaBwT23YO2-gSrGP8WzGMWaYFfZsJuiC93ZdC-xhc85uNXwB9wZV7GzhBLBE7zHhxatSkG2mVPXCtHal61TrxcahkabdHAnvSCWPF9JGKq3SflXKrVsWvkBgk9Wsj7EPWvkV_Sm-2xrHb0cdCx2HQ/s4032/Mayine%20(aka%20Lynn)%20at%20her%20loom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5z0vx5vJafD-RMIeSN81Hn86zBu3aWRies2UxymTaBwT23YO2-gSrGP8WzGMWaYFfZsJuiC93ZdC-xhc85uNXwB9wZV7GzhBLBE7zHhxatSkG2mVPXCtHal61TrxcahkabdHAnvSCWPF9JGKq3SflXKrVsWvkBgk9Wsj7EPWvkV_Sm-2xrHb0cdCx2HQ/w300-h400/Mayine%20(aka%20Lynn)%20at%20her%20loom.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><i>Mayine Yu (who goes by Lynn) of Brooklyn, NY, also wove the "Falling Stars" pattern.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Here, she's working on a Doubleweave version that uses one wool yarn </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>alternating with one cotton yarn in the weft. </i><i>When the sample is washed and agitated </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>with soap and warm water, the wool fulls and draws in the layer of cotton, </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>creating vertical pleats in the fabric. The technique is called "differential shrinkage."</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8f5RiL7HBkvgDIJOLdfOcMPRm1Fh9T4YZ-mb87lAoNl8Y_o8R-WFgkVE4Tm_6uA6F9Xh1rYDCNBkDTjgSdYFXpgdCRU2ICzsSl0XUZo79ceoCtA9SFz6qIqfoxD70CgHVtP7TVNvR12Na7Kq8I74WRDoHPcL4HnYKIuLSO-45zhrRSKyEJ8P4gR63YFw/s4032/Anne%20at%20her%20loom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8f5RiL7HBkvgDIJOLdfOcMPRm1Fh9T4YZ-mb87lAoNl8Y_o8R-WFgkVE4Tm_6uA6F9Xh1rYDCNBkDTjgSdYFXpgdCRU2ICzsSl0XUZo79ceoCtA9SFz6qIqfoxD70CgHVtP7TVNvR12Na7Kq8I74WRDoHPcL4HnYKIuLSO-45zhrRSKyEJ8P4gR63YFw/w300-h400/Anne%20at%20her%20loom.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><i>Anne Graham of New Haven also wove the 12-shaft pattern called "Pink and Green."</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33GfExfrMpUEtAu9jcUOdJYSKsv0XZ8ByJNhWjdLhJ2Nhj9yiXk_A791560uX2zwYchnqlJL1E_NPwmvryBegHti_ZPaBjubbWeY0I7V_IS8gbU7BkuBWozf1lvYawAeLfI9gOEiaxdxNuKM9wDEvDNsMEeGPfthGfpQQVzbQUyT2z_oTrHsAYKp-ae8/s4032/Anne's%20samples%20on%2012.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33GfExfrMpUEtAu9jcUOdJYSKsv0XZ8ByJNhWjdLhJ2Nhj9yiXk_A791560uX2zwYchnqlJL1E_NPwmvryBegHti_ZPaBjubbWeY0I7V_IS8gbU7BkuBWozf1lvYawAeLfI9gOEiaxdxNuKM9wDEvDNsMEeGPfthGfpQQVzbQUyT2z_oTrHsAYKp-ae8/w480-h640/Anne's%20samples%20on%2012.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Here's a detail of Anne's samples in Echo. Note the changes in weft color </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>and how much they change the color blending in the samples.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9V9_xhe1Q86J5D2SRAzWzmBXG1CZJVhugAKEdGBi4VjgnCalHhIz2SNDm2DVWZO45GyIREnSlnJJ-iW25j9GzS76gj4slo6Lg0S0Y8ugSxXPVl-jiH9s48I-nvGRBEaVsRTPAt_rqRsuBbHJON06gGqhvh4LZ45ixqz79tvVaI0OaBon_iTR5NZEb63Y/s4032/Christina's%20Falling%20Stars%20as%20Rep%20followed%20by%20Doubleweave.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9V9_xhe1Q86J5D2SRAzWzmBXG1CZJVhugAKEdGBi4VjgnCalHhIz2SNDm2DVWZO45GyIREnSlnJJ-iW25j9GzS76gj4slo6Lg0S0Y8ugSxXPVl-jiH9s48I-nvGRBEaVsRTPAt_rqRsuBbHJON06gGqhvh4LZ45ixqz79tvVaI0OaBon_iTR5NZEb63Y/w300-h400/Christina's%20Falling%20Stars%20as%20Rep%20followed%20by%20Doubleweave.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Christina Zook's Falling Stars variations in Rep (below) and Doubleweave (above)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmj4x_RZfG_1tzi5krEiW9eMHkp0BogyGmENHSXVEY6V-5tEbsxY5-Bglvy46EYZmGVUO9G6aGO6jIPsCZfPQzb1B4aiLGZS71hyii1B9y3xa_BgKHhNjAWXgfpfcV39pni4P1o-U0Z_REZaTadN3RdPuoQJiVr_tVHgsaOUZCCQoO4jt2vzq9PVCEU-E/s4032/Christina%20Zook%20at%20her%20loom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmj4x_RZfG_1tzi5krEiW9eMHkp0BogyGmENHSXVEY6V-5tEbsxY5-Bglvy46EYZmGVUO9G6aGO6jIPsCZfPQzb1B4aiLGZS71hyii1B9y3xa_BgKHhNjAWXgfpfcV39pni4P1o-U0Z_REZaTadN3RdPuoQJiVr_tVHgsaOUZCCQoO4jt2vzq9PVCEU-E/w300-h400/Christina%20Zook%20at%20her%20loom.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><i>Christina at her loom. Note that her weft colors of bright blue and burgundy </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>are the same yarns and colors as her warp for her Doubleweave sample. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The weft colors can vary and produce interesting color blending, </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>but the effect is stronger in some designs than in others.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVgPB7Uk-v_lxMGHKlxr6Kj0jxhyQC8rjYDtKh1nst92weK8-Ix-sb6kQyeysORyS5PoV-grvHuSTjg1bqwIec-5tRjspSen8NbRPLUVVhQKDhTR5l0AxNSBfo1Z-wndDANw1OmAZT3_FnAO68Dml4vg0p_TORKE8NKx8syifvzb4bD_h8kG-_OxDr4pA/s4032/Marjorie%20working%20on%20Falling%20Stars%20as%20doubleweave.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVgPB7Uk-v_lxMGHKlxr6Kj0jxhyQC8rjYDtKh1nst92weK8-Ix-sb6kQyeysORyS5PoV-grvHuSTjg1bqwIec-5tRjspSen8NbRPLUVVhQKDhTR5l0AxNSBfo1Z-wndDANw1OmAZT3_FnAO68Dml4vg0p_TORKE8NKx8syifvzb4bD_h8kG-_OxDr4pA/w300-h400/Marjorie%20working%20on%20Falling%20Stars%20as%20doubleweave.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Here's Marjorie Wheeler working on her Doubleweave design for "Falling Stars." </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>(Marjorie was also a key volunteer for NEWS </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>and I hope I thanked her enough for all her good work!)</i></div><i><br /></i></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3i1pi3xoHF1Yh32vzQnUpJmQcQalLQBiKEI28g02z10qN5iY0VHxPGqK--wPZyA0ZTT6EOKUyTqIF2T33hcxoGwebX_iiIJPk1M5o4xUC8jlK8clRav3FY0bqEFZI18BLQbTgN0alaqAqUBzTnDHYlOfEdzC_nYHwYsrOd_9W0d75-ACsdQG3eU6aWMg/s4032/Christine%20Ross%20at%20work%20on%20Falling%20Stars.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3i1pi3xoHF1Yh32vzQnUpJmQcQalLQBiKEI28g02z10qN5iY0VHxPGqK--wPZyA0ZTT6EOKUyTqIF2T33hcxoGwebX_iiIJPk1M5o4xUC8jlK8clRav3FY0bqEFZI18BLQbTgN0alaqAqUBzTnDHYlOfEdzC_nYHwYsrOd_9W0d75-ACsdQG3eU6aWMg/w300-h400/Christine%20Ross%20at%20work%20on%20Falling%20Stars.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Christine Ross at work on her Doubleweave sample of "Falling Stars."</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4yhHNjWr1hzASyQYn1PJxxFEdZJcTYte4GdJfmb-837i4WuMzFFJjGWn9Jv7dYw-9zmlx8pZCqcIEM21YLuyIFBSF3gqRUxVwgKaAqLwTngOuGuWiRksdmMecidzHKPoZBUgY7MBOn6kueL985736Ci3RRMQYvhk_eBcbK3QGCRPWxAHEHkthlI5uI4/s4032/Anne%20Guralnick's%20728%20as%20doubleweave.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4yhHNjWr1hzASyQYn1PJxxFEdZJcTYte4GdJfmb-837i4WuMzFFJjGWn9Jv7dYw-9zmlx8pZCqcIEM21YLuyIFBSF3gqRUxVwgKaAqLwTngOuGuWiRksdmMecidzHKPoZBUgY7MBOn6kueL985736Ci3RRMQYvhk_eBcbK3QGCRPWxAHEHkthlI5uI4/w480-h640/Anne%20Guralnick's%20728%20as%20doubleweave.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Ann Guralnick also chose the eight-shaft pattern #728 in Strickler. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>At the top is a Doubleweave variation and below that, Rep Weave.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjqj9LqcaJYMHjnCzI8XImuc1z5K9-Nlxy-sS3eG3F2Jv0z8XJubPGdm-VHoS12yynpDwaNAU6g7e0m_5yYkbSD-M5Vvh_BhWS1CZHjUObAaUppME0yGY5-I9MW-BQBHyNd_3vYjjZ2U4MrQl8CEV8-dGv26masMVzUB9qQJlpkIwkETuxhaDbffuTwTE/s4032/Ann%20Guralnick%20at%20her%20loom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjqj9LqcaJYMHjnCzI8XImuc1z5K9-Nlxy-sS3eG3F2Jv0z8XJubPGdm-VHoS12yynpDwaNAU6g7e0m_5yYkbSD-M5Vvh_BhWS1CZHjUObAaUppME0yGY5-I9MW-BQBHyNd_3vYjjZ2U4MrQl8CEV8-dGv26masMVzUB9qQJlpkIwkETuxhaDbffuTwTE/w300-h400/Ann%20Guralnick%20at%20her%20loom.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><i>Ann at her loom</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The samples were beautiful, the company was great, and the food was excellent. OK, maybe the rooms were a little cold, at least to begin with -- but what more can you ask for a good conference? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The morning everyone was leaving, I woke at 6 a.m. to the sound of a weaver calling out to her friend, "Goodbye! Drive safely! See you soon!" I think that says a lot about the camaraderie of these gatherings.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwmjdSCk-vZLQI48ycWXxhioIaXsXS8M8GOU9zpOZ-VIuc1J_iBw4ykkspnRplGD1xBnm7s_-UamQHKbU1FmthQip5fCz1cc18OEqDhG_EbCbwRMwh9JkYNzrZ9RqOLyb0CLLucXvp2ClxFJYhjyTdRhMRz31Bpaki3-9cggRdQW-s8COZqNGBSJXVSU/s4032/728%20samples%20by%20Anne%20G%20starting%20with%20Shadow%20Weave.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwmjdSCk-vZLQI48ycWXxhioIaXsXS8M8GOU9zpOZ-VIuc1J_iBw4ykkspnRplGD1xBnm7s_-UamQHKbU1FmthQip5fCz1cc18OEqDhG_EbCbwRMwh9JkYNzrZ9RqOLyb0CLLucXvp2ClxFJYhjyTdRhMRz31Bpaki3-9cggRdQW-s8COZqNGBSJXVSU/w480-h640/728%20samples%20by%20Anne%20G%20starting%20with%20Shadow%20Weave.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><i>Can't resist posting one more image: This one of Ann Guralnick's samples </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>of Strickler #728, starting at the bottom with Shadow Weave</i><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><i><br /></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-65219708978424558382023-06-14T20:28:00.003-04:002023-06-15T11:06:40.679-04:00It's Conference Season!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPu52Cr2QPgABLiqjxkS_qu2AbLf5OWvnYmfOrBpIBxMB0PXpgAI-GJDCzClScitJifPZo4n8I3YGnEu8Iv2BYv43rOZMcKQC51-QNhS_RTU3jcVXdTkS83oc4uy3B71LoX5ojT4HPRxzbvSSqWpYLNIoRBTmMvZqyAWprsDpAwOTQZAf8Tz1kK7UT/s3953/Dinner%20at%20the%20Pub.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2045" data-original-width="3953" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPu52Cr2QPgABLiqjxkS_qu2AbLf5OWvnYmfOrBpIBxMB0PXpgAI-GJDCzClScitJifPZo4n8I3YGnEu8Iv2BYv43rOZMcKQC51-QNhS_RTU3jcVXdTkS83oc4uy3B71LoX5ojT4HPRxzbvSSqWpYLNIoRBTmMvZqyAWprsDpAwOTQZAf8Tz1kK7UT/w400-h208/Dinner%20at%20the%20Pub.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>I write this as I'm sitting in the airport in Grand Rapids, MI, waiting for a much-delayed flight to Detroit and then home. What better time to post about the just-finished Michigan Handweavers Conference in Holland, MI? And why not start with a classic conference photo -- that of a group of weaver-friends going out to dinner after a long day in the classroom?</p><p>Pictured above, from left to right: Cathy McCarthy, Janney Simpson, Martha Town, Susan Moran, Nancy Riele, Martina Celerin, Nadine Cloutier, and me. Everyone in the photo is either a teacher, a conference organizer, a student at the conference, or any combination of the three. You can imagine what we talked about -- for instance, the exhibits....</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO-G8bhubeWEdFtP7lJpxs6jiC9UQsO21G1lzIUL4Q0AgMMZ0ua3JQVcqsDPmtgbQ-iHn6AMd9BEoNWUwBEkcxXvBC6lfgsRYEiTGMuOYa7PGGUIWodcdcbxi6RCJMYxDyvljCB6J1aszc2v_0OjPU0gsbP_7exLFHwdZ6ugmIdn5l4w7AKESybrfc/s4032/Woodland%20Weavers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO-G8bhubeWEdFtP7lJpxs6jiC9UQsO21G1lzIUL4Q0AgMMZ0ua3JQVcqsDPmtgbQ-iHn6AMd9BEoNWUwBEkcxXvBC6lfgsRYEiTGMuOYa7PGGUIWodcdcbxi6RCJMYxDyvljCB6J1aszc2v_0OjPU0gsbP_7exLFHwdZ6ugmIdn5l4w7AKESybrfc/w300-h400/Woodland%20Weavers.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are some 19 guilds in Michigan, and one exhibit featured collected works from many of these guilds -- including this beautiful series of blue vertical panels created by members of Woodland Weavers. Whether they were woven, knitted, felted, printed, quilted, or hand-dyed, these vertical panels all related to the exhibit's focus on the lakes and landscape of Michigan. Here's a closeup of one of the pieces, which included cyanotype prints and painted images of white-pine needles. (I apologize for not crediting the artist, as I did not take down the name.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEvdYsT-0xxyy6Fh9SZKLUwhF24nby8aMXRkmr3dn07AoLYd6gW9-MC8rCxnzfdiZTlEtPYRu5Jl1srPodFlowYZNdgoc5ifocZhC2G_UaHFTpDEptTFMImwWEPIzXSRox4Fd1sHOYQ57J_G6UnO0kW8oQ0s_FKCXIj9kVZQjPos45_ugntr2AI2fp/s3975/IMG_2333.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3975" data-original-width="2487" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEvdYsT-0xxyy6Fh9SZKLUwhF24nby8aMXRkmr3dn07AoLYd6gW9-MC8rCxnzfdiZTlEtPYRu5Jl1srPodFlowYZNdgoc5ifocZhC2G_UaHFTpDEptTFMImwWEPIzXSRox4Fd1sHOYQ57J_G6UnO0kW8oQ0s_FKCXIj9kVZQjPos45_ugntr2AI2fp/w250-h400/IMG_2333.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's an image from a rug-hooked piece by Nadine Cloutier, using hand-dyed wool strips to create a sun-soaked lake view. I love the tactile quality and the varying directions of the wool strips.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBL9YH6UPpDwjAUX1Xqj5ZFbPbIVQuBy0YYTENI0rSZij8uHmlun3wyFE6dEYXQU7jYXyIuAzh77Vsehkb1HRFlA9TmeC9JnoHedOdBM412A-J0zaGPHCeI2g71ak9nn74i9XWyg1q-1Pkmms4zBjN3Sh8csrwwPk0k0LAjYcUFG2X4Wata2I8FsKW/s3766/Nadine%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3766" data-original-width="2799" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBL9YH6UPpDwjAUX1Xqj5ZFbPbIVQuBy0YYTENI0rSZij8uHmlun3wyFE6dEYXQU7jYXyIuAzh77Vsehkb1HRFlA9TmeC9JnoHedOdBM412A-J0zaGPHCeI2g71ak9nn74i9XWyg1q-1Pkmms4zBjN3Sh8csrwwPk0k0LAjYcUFG2X4Wata2I8FsKW/w298-h400/Nadine%20.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Martina Celerin was the keynote speaker, who spoke about her dimensional weavings. They all begin with a simple frame loom she builds herself for warping and weaving tapestry-like backdrops of natural scenes. She then uses a number of techniques, including felting and weaving, to extend her pieces beyond the plane of the the loom outward as much as 12 inches. It's difficult for a photo to portray the depth of her creations, but here is an image of one of her recent pieces, featuring a trail meandering through the forest. (The bright blue color in the upper righthand side of the image is from paper bags in the background, unfortunately, that you can see through the open yarns on the loom.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAj1-rfV7vg1eos4oGqlO4vknxeges1CbQww-WKydkMGpNVdO6WI6iGzrRsgnSvSU5O3IgiftPuFAv1X4yx2rJZX61LwxAxMdGFf8e1ONcPMHy28XhstaBg3Mk-Hc5wy0wX-n95_bI9dIR67qse_HeB257kSwjcahtK-zK9qSGZ8nYcNShjc8Vhoqr/s3880/Martina%20Celerin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3880" data-original-width="2646" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAj1-rfV7vg1eos4oGqlO4vknxeges1CbQww-WKydkMGpNVdO6WI6iGzrRsgnSvSU5O3IgiftPuFAv1X4yx2rJZX61LwxAxMdGFf8e1ONcPMHy28XhstaBg3Mk-Hc5wy0wX-n95_bI9dIR67qse_HeB257kSwjcahtK-zK9qSGZ8nYcNShjc8Vhoqr/w273-h400/Martina%20Celerin.jpg" width="273" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can find out more about Celerin by clicking <a href="http://www.martinacelerin.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So much to see -- and touch! Speaking of touch, the workshop I taught was based on my book, <u>Weaving Outside the Box: 12 Projects for Creating Dimensional Cloth</u>. To my surprise and delight, people in the workshop took off with their versions of the projects in the book -- in some cases, improving upon them, in my view. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This sample by Nancy Riele, using the ancient weave technique known as Rippenköper, had whimsical, flowing horizontal lines. It's woven in 8/2 Tencel on a warp of 60/2 silk in a turned-twill design. I consider her sample way better than the piece I wove for the book ;o)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59RhANyqpgV0LO4NpMi3sapPGY-ktwUdYdT7EMUb9Ux_kiDifAQTu1hfJziR_nmcGbbbYx_t8ezlmQfSrJTFoZMJZldjh6jJAfhMrsXx7icCt_m_OHWFyvu66cbcvpmJ8zVxiacdzCF8JsEAPZR7nNpCi-aWViwZ4Od6pOPc0xSvRVMxrfqxZ4xhP/s2298/Nancy%20Riele.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2298" data-original-width="2227" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59RhANyqpgV0LO4NpMi3sapPGY-ktwUdYdT7EMUb9Ux_kiDifAQTu1hfJziR_nmcGbbbYx_t8ezlmQfSrJTFoZMJZldjh6jJAfhMrsXx7icCt_m_OHWFyvu66cbcvpmJ8zVxiacdzCF8JsEAPZR7nNpCi-aWViwZ4Od6pOPc0xSvRVMxrfqxZ4xhP/w388-h400/Nancy%20Riele.jpg" width="388" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Among the takeaways from this workshop is that textured weaves call for either specialized (energized) yarns, fulling and differential shrinkage, and/or structure -- any one of these or varied combinations of the three. Finishing is key. Below is a photo of the work of Cory Zann, showing the difference between her fabric on the loom and after washing. Again, this is a turned-twill structure on a 60/2 warp, in her case using a silk/stainless-steel yarn for the weft.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCiRbP17Qlb6PHtFQfJ1tSxWrW5XzJ5IqWX-OihFe4zkNhU7x3IVqu9ygIT2MWxVzguTKxgEFpQv8897LB31hBztjtFWaEvxglx3l5khGNTVZZY0iTX3JomaLE2GpvCZWCdMtKPEIKiSG7BM23MMO8_j8Xfte8M1ogFMfY58S3rm7bUuFZBp3cUvp5/s3902/IMG_2375.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3902" data-original-width="2510" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCiRbP17Qlb6PHtFQfJ1tSxWrW5XzJ5IqWX-OihFe4zkNhU7x3IVqu9ygIT2MWxVzguTKxgEFpQv8897LB31hBztjtFWaEvxglx3l5khGNTVZZY0iTX3JomaLE2GpvCZWCdMtKPEIKiSG7BM23MMO8_j8Xfte8M1ogFMfY58S3rm7bUuFZBp3cUvp5/w258-h400/IMG_2375.heic" width="258" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cindy Root, president of the Michigan League of Handweavers, chose to weave a 4-shaft project on a gradient warp of 16/2 bamboo, using a weft of 18/2 Jagger Spun merino and a supplemental weft of embroidery cotton. The supplemental weft is used to draw the fabric in horizontally, compressing it so that only portions of the wool are exposed in finishing. This means that only some portions of the wool will full, creating pleats where the weft yarns have shrunk and gathered the warp yarns together densely. Here's Cindy's shibori-tightened fabric before it's washed with warm water and agitated with soap. After it's dried a bit, but still damp, she will remove the shibori ties and have a permanently pleated scarf.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf2GHhevuK-3uOoRCVDLDC-Gd_Ns_4KTZMPCz7AMkLbdvVRcI1nLAiIoFbbnpWc1rOPeIkeUKduy8kPC6nEjToVKdp7m8f_Bo_W6k_h1_uPDhpki2YnEF-IT7bvmFtH6n-a7zQvgGVe30tBG8ITgZUU9LMxW468V1bBmP3qGhBg7-9zZqydVjdYQ-z/s4009/Cindy's%20sea%20creature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4009" data-original-width="1757" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf2GHhevuK-3uOoRCVDLDC-Gd_Ns_4KTZMPCz7AMkLbdvVRcI1nLAiIoFbbnpWc1rOPeIkeUKduy8kPC6nEjToVKdp7m8f_Bo_W6k_h1_uPDhpki2YnEF-IT7bvmFtH6n-a7zQvgGVe30tBG8ITgZUU9LMxW468V1bBmP3qGhBg7-9zZqydVjdYQ-z/w175-h400/Cindy's%20sea%20creature.jpg" width="175" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Gail Pilgrim was also working on the Rippenköper structure -- but weaving it in on a 20/2 cotton warp using 8/2 cotton in the weft. She's doing research for a story planned for <u>Heddlecraft</u> magazine looking at hand towels in a variety of structures. In addition to working with cotton wefts, she decided to try a weft of 18/2 Jagger Spun merino, just to see whether the results were worthy of weaving a scarf somewhere down the line (or down the warp). Here's that sample, below.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfO098PL7F2ePBWxCrXA8LuYTX96P3rEb2JwNVwQItNad2Z9S4GaHUjR9f9T_PbUAfmhu-5J-47zl7v6Zal5LzW8X7NrF1j0BkeIohPaWVy-90YkrO9tS-WRdbmeaThSDaDDttTHe6QaEnhBLFHmInMF6d-bqVCZPKdmQq5faPyow-293f9E8_EDV9/s3930/IMG_2371.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3930" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfO098PL7F2ePBWxCrXA8LuYTX96P3rEb2JwNVwQItNad2Z9S4GaHUjR9f9T_PbUAfmhu-5J-47zl7v6Zal5LzW8X7NrF1j0BkeIohPaWVy-90YkrO9tS-WRdbmeaThSDaDDttTHe6QaEnhBLFHmInMF6d-bqVCZPKdmQq5faPyow-293f9E8_EDV9/w308-h400/IMG_2371.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>As it is with many workshops, not every project is complete at the end. And since this workshop emphasized the importance of using specific finishing techniques, some weavers chose to finish their projects at home, after the workshop -- as with this 4-shaft deflected doubleweave scarf by Naomi Fletcher, woven with 10/2 cotton in the warp and weft, with a mid-section that includes Colcolastic yarn by Venne, drawing the mid-section in dramatically. I'm hoping she'll send me some photos of her results that I can then share with the group.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWknhd7HE76KwxKeGtCJdhVPH6SS0vycZ-32PMftjimqwun14qMpXno6GOGClzGUQWmfNmCId3LBIeOOM2v7wDSuCY7Y9IdczCSu8d9-kAsKeOfvYyirdOh8GYirCnQ1D8MFSxK34tgjO09yLmY10NhTHpioNu6QTpXNF8th_OBWmPCUQetKWCC6mZ/s3863/Naomi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3863" data-original-width="2253" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWknhd7HE76KwxKeGtCJdhVPH6SS0vycZ-32PMftjimqwun14qMpXno6GOGClzGUQWmfNmCId3LBIeOOM2v7wDSuCY7Y9IdczCSu8d9-kAsKeOfvYyirdOh8GYirCnQ1D8MFSxK34tgjO09yLmY10NhTHpioNu6QTpXNF8th_OBWmPCUQetKWCC6mZ/w234-h400/Naomi.jpg" width="234" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Some samples were finished, however (finished meaning washed with warm water and soap and then rinsed), as with this sample below by Martha Town. She wove it on a hand-painted warp of 60/2 silk with navy stripes and jewel-tone-painted stripes and a weft of 120/2 silk, using a turned-twill structure that pleats naturally. Note the subtle yellow accents in the weft every few inches, which add interest to the sample.<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWspZp_q6DR1E0WL8txoMZ-E8XE6U_UgKHrAFyn7w1yk05f-EktOuM39CSTf0U1ZD-wHADMP5mkvLAvR-sLq_H7kAlLmH2nUHthbIdJz7VCNRSYCRKDgPHDcPI5nCWOewurEMr_bEYlTax9LGEMKWDe_8wwksZMb5KCsVyYvMM_gdQyRNGaPJHsrKV/s4032/Martha's%20sample.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1619" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWspZp_q6DR1E0WL8txoMZ-E8XE6U_UgKHrAFyn7w1yk05f-EktOuM39CSTf0U1ZD-wHADMP5mkvLAvR-sLq_H7kAlLmH2nUHthbIdJz7VCNRSYCRKDgPHDcPI5nCWOewurEMr_bEYlTax9LGEMKWDe_8wwksZMb5KCsVyYvMM_gdQyRNGaPJHsrKV/w160-h400/Martha's%20sample.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks to MLH for a wonderful conference -- and to everyone in my workshop for an experience that I didn't want to end! And finally, thanks to you for reading.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div></div>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-14057384460034941362023-05-18T22:44:00.001-04:002023-05-18T22:48:16.058-04:00The Genius of Richard Landis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdL-FfkyYjWksCUMWYLofHxVcKnLjXDTOfk4A6GY8hBZa7o1jVyPtpcEabTIyyFWMgOuZfl96-O08lIN7oZSbvgZjIdAWiSh_rXwA95xnzAIVBdaqb_PbIXNCE3jTf1ht4K2YLM3t8fZFOG6BafSJDxpq2ZxSV1KGiXs0x7iDNcdxVj1ZzjI8ldT8G/s960/Landis.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="902" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdL-FfkyYjWksCUMWYLofHxVcKnLjXDTOfk4A6GY8hBZa7o1jVyPtpcEabTIyyFWMgOuZfl96-O08lIN7oZSbvgZjIdAWiSh_rXwA95xnzAIVBdaqb_PbIXNCE3jTf1ht4K2YLM3t8fZFOG6BafSJDxpq2ZxSV1KGiXs0x7iDNcdxVj1ZzjI8ldT8G/w376-h400/Landis.webp" width="376" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> Signal, 1976, Richard Landis</i></div><p>I came upon the work of Richard Landis as I was reading <u>Loom-Controlled Double Weave: From the Notebook of a Double Weaver</u> by the late, great Paul O'Connor.</p><p>It was one of those moments.... You see a weaving and the lightbulbs go off: "Who IS this? What exactly is happening here?" </p><p>This was the photo I saw. Even though it was a poor reproduction and printed in black and white, it had presence.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUYP5F-IrcdJ30O8uUKqZXYXS6uZPsL-T42DQBGIDGM6vzLDzAZzgYB9asqkloXKc6mu1RN3p6N9QyBp5ciPnASTs_UXNhdq5cX2rAk7p4M9N0sqJfTYl4VgKgIPKepV8VhyIi7iyRhnrw0D6tzu1i1F4IFwGV5n-3SHCgK3qMKwtBzjn6KK6WUDlC/s2874/The%20Passion%20by%20Richard%20Landis,%201978.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2874" data-original-width="2827" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUYP5F-IrcdJ30O8uUKqZXYXS6uZPsL-T42DQBGIDGM6vzLDzAZzgYB9asqkloXKc6mu1RN3p6N9QyBp5ciPnASTs_UXNhdq5cX2rAk7p4M9N0sqJfTYl4VgKgIPKepV8VhyIi7iyRhnrw0D6tzu1i1F4IFwGV5n-3SHCgK3qMKwtBzjn6KK6WUDlC/w394-h400/The%20Passion%20by%20Richard%20Landis,%201978.jpg" width="394" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Passion, detail, Richard Landis, 1978</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I wanted to know more. Which led to a Google Search, confirming that this was indeed the work of a celebrated weaver, one whose weavings are in the collections of MOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Museum of Art (a gift of Helena Hernmarck), and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Google told me he was living somewhere in Arizona. Emboldened, I searched for him on Whitepages.com and found a landline. So -- why not -- I picked up the phone and called him. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And he answered! Long story short, he was kind enough to grant me an interview. As it happened to be his 92nd birthday and he was going out to celebrate with friends, we set up a phone call for the following week. We followed through: I had my questions ready and his answers were every bit as interesting as his work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p>First off, I asked him the basics: sett, yarn, loom, inspiration. He explained that he bought standard polyester sewing thread on cones, in hundreds of colors, that were sold in Los Angeles at the time. This fine thread and the vast number of colors allowed him to create fluid color graduations in each block, with his warp sett around 88 epi (44 epi per layer) on his 8-shaft Gilmore with a weighted beater. </p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Clearly, to achieve those wonderful shifting hues and values in both warp and weft, he had to do a great deal of sketching and planning before he even wound a warp.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">All his designing was done on paper, with colored sketches like this.</div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-AMcfcufUsoUaGaFRF8TjyTHaKYS7kwG5upPhLkWO_BmDydnxPPTZlYpIkLDPBLnsY35K8AzaQqhPNj91vb1zhZhWWvV7vvlPMNQBRJ7tE8SSbWJzvZMZiozB3VsLCdfdbMoThBBNYvRJnFtBiRxnK7Z5CC3M15LNf0sS3jTLFzY__f9Qyh4tV9kY/s2867/Landis%20sketch.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2867" data-original-width="2598" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-AMcfcufUsoUaGaFRF8TjyTHaKYS7kwG5upPhLkWO_BmDydnxPPTZlYpIkLDPBLnsY35K8AzaQqhPNj91vb1zhZhWWvV7vvlPMNQBRJ7tE8SSbWJzvZMZiozB3VsLCdfdbMoThBBNYvRJnFtBiRxnK7Z5CC3M15LNf0sS3jTLFzY__f9Qyh4tV9kY/w363-h400/Landis%20sketch.jpg" width="363" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>A sketch from 1967-68, in which he worked "to discover the position of full tones," he says. </i><i>(This image is reproduced from a privately published book on Landis, <u>Episodes</u>.) He describes the process of sketching "somewhat tedious."</i> </p><p style="text-align: left;">Below is an intricate piece called "Triumph of Logic," woven in 1982 and now owned by the Cooper-Hewitt. Landis says that Jack Lenor Larsen told him it was his masterpiece.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipKjM2n4e3A4dAdc0S15vMsUwvE1L7wmf2o5VFocATPQaDAjwVhLtQzDqxlwUo5ljUWgiMxisz2ebkxGonIDotMzGuhtf3LJmNePVq_hITaac8-m5rK3grZB-Z3Pf4u_Ty7DWFay-GkvnXievtSMJnxV-tyMDDJB2n1DrYMMeL31nmdpTDjdtFrBer/s1200/Triumph%20of%20Logic,%201982,%20Cooper-Hewitt.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="786" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipKjM2n4e3A4dAdc0S15vMsUwvE1L7wmf2o5VFocATPQaDAjwVhLtQzDqxlwUo5ljUWgiMxisz2ebkxGonIDotMzGuhtf3LJmNePVq_hITaac8-m5rK3grZB-Z3Pf4u_Ty7DWFay-GkvnXievtSMJnxV-tyMDDJB2n1DrYMMeL31nmdpTDjdtFrBer/w421-h640/Triumph%20of%20Logic,%201982,%20Cooper-Hewitt.jpeg" width="421" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is art you can read and feel: the tactile quality is visible to us as weavers. It speaks volumes to me, as 20th-century art in a language I can understand. </div><p>Landis earned an art degree from Arizona State University in the 1950s. "When I got to college I took a basic design course from a woman, a European woman who was on fire about modern art. I thought a lot of modern art was just crazy, Picasso and Braque and all these people.... but when I took her course I learned it was just amazing."</p><p>He found, however, that "painting didn't interest me much.... I just decided that woven things -- things that were made of cloth, fiber -- I just thought that was more interesting."</p><p>His training in weaving? "I only studied weaving for three days," he remembers. "I studied at Mary Pendleton's in Sedona and slept in my car because I didn't have any money. She gave me a British book on doubleweave and I went from there."</p><p>Landis asserts that "Anni Albers was my North Star. Bauhaus thought and modern art were always in my mind."</p><p>He didn't ignore the technical aspects of the work, as with any true artist. His finishing process was meticulous. "I washed them and ironed them in very specific ways. I had to wash them three times, because I wanted them to do the natural shrinking. And then I wanted the doubleweave not be flattened beyond what it needed to be."</p><p>Still, technicalities were not his focus. He never used weaving software -- even though it was available in the later years of his weaving career -- and even today he doesn't use email or a cell phone.</p><p>Landis stopped weaving in 1995. "I was pretty good at weaving but I'm very bad at salesmanship and giving a damn. After it's done in its proper form, I'm through with it." </p><p>"In its proper form" is an understatement, in my view.</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTB0BAkVfVEwM4aM4rI55JnELIxQ_KGIt_vJy18nDol_Uvx34O3zFkOATJkIMgnBV-WjkBtWgnLFmBTy88d0IY0xCxzEujaLe6ENrObhjHA4pFZ4LM70xq73XCtiMZguylVqRf7TBQ9FYhz2P3vpcY-rK5jtSMjeyxtfVXDJIFOX2kKLXKFJwVMJV6/s1024/Campo%20di%20Fiori,%20Richard%20Landis.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTB0BAkVfVEwM4aM4rI55JnELIxQ_KGIt_vJy18nDol_Uvx34O3zFkOATJkIMgnBV-WjkBtWgnLFmBTy88d0IY0xCxzEujaLe6ENrObhjHA4pFZ4LM70xq73XCtiMZguylVqRf7TBQ9FYhz2P3vpcY-rK5jtSMjeyxtfVXDJIFOX2kKLXKFJwVMJV6/w293-h400/Campo%20di%20Fiori,%20Richard%20Landis.jpeg" width="293" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Campo di Fiori, Richard Landis, 1976, Cooper-Hewitt </i></div><div><br /></div>All images in this post are used with permission from Richard Landis. To watch a 2018 interview with this master colorist, visit <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whID0hd-1Qg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whID0hd-1Qg</a><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for reading!</div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-20426101230088942102023-04-12T21:33:00.006-04:002023-04-23T10:05:19.410-04:00Color Chords Make Your Warp Sing! <p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgotXTCTyEE6RJdp9gzzdcoIw2oov3W7jIxO932JPPR1TOfzag8nqIKix5AeuwhSKIgMkUq_Eziu45jhtRUxWGMnAmKGAtpQIU5-JBwAH816QYlRDLNZbCewGw2L064Qa2FAOHNWbPNAr0tfmUkJB9PsB7mDD0eu7ZFXBfeMdry4uJxf4eOfuurEeT/s2850/IMG_2110.heic" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2597" data-original-width="2850" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgotXTCTyEE6RJdp9gzzdcoIw2oov3W7jIxO932JPPR1TOfzag8nqIKix5AeuwhSKIgMkUq_Eziu45jhtRUxWGMnAmKGAtpQIU5-JBwAH816QYlRDLNZbCewGw2L064Qa2FAOHNWbPNAr0tfmUkJB9PsB7mDD0eu7ZFXBfeMdry4uJxf4eOfuurEeT/w400-h365/IMG_2110.heic" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Pictured above, "Tesselations": an eight-shaft design on a four-color Echo threading. This is one of the samples I'm weaving up for "Echo and Jin: Playing with Color Chords," a workshop I'm teaching at the MAFA (Mid-Atlantic Fiber Association) 2023 conference in June in Millersville, PA.<p></p><p>Weavers will choose their warp colors based on the theories of "color chords" presented by Johannes Itten, author of <u>The Art of Color</u> and <u>The Elements of Color</u>. Many consider him to be the 20th century's master of color theory. </p><p>In addition, <u>The Color Star</u> (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,1985) is a tool for color study based on Itten's theory of color harmony and his 12-point color wheel. The kit (not really a book) includes eight templates that outline a series of chords of his color star. As an example, looking at the photo at the top of this post: The colors of the warp yarns (in 10/2 mercerized cotton) are bright green, orange, burgundy, and royal blue. Together, they form a rectangle, a quadratic chord, on Itten's color star.</p><p>The full complement of templates, placed over the color wheel and cycled around the wheel, are as follows:</p><p>1) <b>Dyadic chords</b>, the six sets of complementary colors: yellow and violet, yellow/orange and blue/violet, orange and blue, red/orange and blue/green, red and green, and red/violet and yellow-green.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2EpDb86fhvsjrxh0d7RZaYEQAnzjXA5oeRA5ETXTpGzPSdLIx4rD8EvRAWJAjJFIQm6YJJgtePVz1XiiOQtWMUa-VDJA6nX954vAy10iQAvXzN7Q0SlF09W1HgWV30vC54JVw6rzNVfO3r70e4tgi6JqicLUUJeHZnQM39NdiqssKSacVnXRnY0rf/s2996/IMG_2213.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2996" data-original-width="2971" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2EpDb86fhvsjrxh0d7RZaYEQAnzjXA5oeRA5ETXTpGzPSdLIx4rD8EvRAWJAjJFIQm6YJJgtePVz1XiiOQtWMUa-VDJA6nX954vAy10iQAvXzN7Q0SlF09W1HgWV30vC54JVw6rzNVfO3r70e4tgi6JqicLUUJeHZnQM39NdiqssKSacVnXRnY0rf/w396-h400/IMG_2213.heic" width="396" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>A dyadic chord showing the complementary colors yellow and violet</i></div><p>2) <b>Triadic chords </b>that form either an isosceles triangle or an equilateral triangle on the color wheel. An isosceles triangle will give you four color chords, among them the primary colors of yellow, red, and blue and the secondary colors of orange, violet, and green. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOa6bO95dQN3HvDBLVk7-DXLEvM_Vk0cSn8-hWbVmJEuNlHfSltQwYNqiZG3C9zwx68UGkaGqL0KHOXWZOyHt3CjPwwrEwHIfGmpO6GwyaI8ZYtctSglSn5SVawtjG5qDV1tuS8Erjmoo1KxvcHyx5RepaWYaQJXxFhXtgoU5PUwiyMvU6oqeTal3p/s2775/IMG_2214.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2752" data-original-width="2775" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOa6bO95dQN3HvDBLVk7-DXLEvM_Vk0cSn8-hWbVmJEuNlHfSltQwYNqiZG3C9zwx68UGkaGqL0KHOXWZOyHt3CjPwwrEwHIfGmpO6GwyaI8ZYtctSglSn5SVawtjG5qDV1tuS8Erjmoo1KxvcHyx5RepaWYaQJXxFhXtgoU5PUwiyMvU6oqeTal3p/w400-h396/IMG_2214.heic" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Triadic chord: an isosceles triangle showing the primary colors</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">Triadic chords can also be equilateral triangles that yield twelve chords, a.k.a. split complementaries.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPFpjqMuSZR0fO2u0wVw9j5IjvY0_mhRkvyWkX2oh8MNrwpEGnUUpdNF8R7UtqQfg5bX1svhSQTL37WW_4YMY-R9Fk7HUOT_GSjRVa9l5Z93QcvXSWlLbhZIXeHOtsqTnnPe8sXNzc54ch1nZO8catfZh1Mv0eX-5ah1kMLI9Sd5pXiMuJ8GQx2lh6/s2954/IMG_2215.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2954" data-original-width="2915" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPFpjqMuSZR0fO2u0wVw9j5IjvY0_mhRkvyWkX2oh8MNrwpEGnUUpdNF8R7UtqQfg5bX1svhSQTL37WW_4YMY-R9Fk7HUOT_GSjRVa9l5Z93QcvXSWlLbhZIXeHOtsqTnnPe8sXNzc54ch1nZO8catfZh1Mv0eX-5ah1kMLI9Sd5pXiMuJ8GQx2lh6/s320/IMG_2215.heic" width="316" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Triadic chord showing the split complementaries of yellow, blue/violet, and red/violet. This chord is useful if you're choosing colors for a two-end parallel threading and its accompanying weft -- although if I had a warp of royal blue and magenta I would choose a darker shade of yellow, something more like bronze, because yellow can overwhelm other colors.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">3) <b>Quadratic chords</b> that are either a square or a rectangle on the color wheel. (I consider this the barbership quartet of Itten's color theory, which I'm certain would not amuse him.) This is the main part of my subject matter for the MAFA workshop.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here's an example of a square quadratic chord of warp-color choices, starting at the top left and going clockwise around the wheel: lime green, orange, wine, and royal blue. Unfortunately I didn't line up my yarn cones in that order, but you get the idea....</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7egkfHj2ZCPIc9NkUxJXQmOyGukd2STtVQERMHHq_ta3oNvI8CBJX4ArEGTxWyya7_hR17lYJxPBhIwNeHTTlYxZXZNwqWUTMP4nyPXraYINk1583nhhYIXrHgtQFIYc4WNWMU-zVJBh2sMWqiQJdJ-uhDwxreBrKp0N3Chlp5SheA_Ntf3o42Wh/s3006/Square%20color%20chord%20with%20yarn.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3006" data-original-width="2136" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7egkfHj2ZCPIc9NkUxJXQmOyGukd2STtVQERMHHq_ta3oNvI8CBJX4ArEGTxWyya7_hR17lYJxPBhIwNeHTTlYxZXZNwqWUTMP4nyPXraYINk1583nhhYIXrHgtQFIYc4WNWMU-zVJBh2sMWqiQJdJ-uhDwxreBrKp0N3Chlp5SheA_Ntf3o42Wh/w284-h400/Square%20color%20chord%20with%20yarn.jpeg" width="284" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Here's what those colors look in black and white, defining their relative values:<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cxPb1Biwvrzmz9sOmbNtPqVFOoFtw-iJ5oLqzjiwpoSsGiAGxT0Qbu8Tvd0QYBSPt67E7c3xY5Ys6fAQ9x1KtdAQ3pxEvhxQ_ggGIV-Jid2ORc1DjISEqDLCQaM48n7gLGLxMhLOi-L25dFxl285_mdI_y_8hNRFlcym_GJUlxTvIEh1Lhin0v1-/s3732/Blue%20green%20orange%20magenta%20values.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2175" data-original-width="3732" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cxPb1Biwvrzmz9sOmbNtPqVFOoFtw-iJ5oLqzjiwpoSsGiAGxT0Qbu8Tvd0QYBSPt67E7c3xY5Ys6fAQ9x1KtdAQ3pxEvhxQ_ggGIV-Jid2ORc1DjISEqDLCQaM48n7gLGLxMhLOi-L25dFxl285_mdI_y_8hNRFlcym_GJUlxTvIEh1Lhin0v1-/w400-h233/Blue%20green%20orange%20magenta%20values.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Predictably, the deep wine color has the darkest value and the orange has the lightest value. Here's an 8-shaft sample woven up with these warp colors, using a turquoise weft.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30Oa9HshpkA87AGbtJjjbZO557VNVWCcjId2s6CaqP7WsAD6wxT_n21FzdoZ4dIRz6H5mtQRSSH1vYXYbG9II5diF_gkOClvVS7G_h4NzMp7j15VXfCZUuV1vto1vYjHoXl6WFeYNuEpsWW5cXlTIpW6hWsNqYfl5nhQdDs3-0JIy3xUcb-MAvc1c/s3746/IMG_2032.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2441" data-original-width="3746" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30Oa9HshpkA87AGbtJjjbZO557VNVWCcjId2s6CaqP7WsAD6wxT_n21FzdoZ4dIRz6H5mtQRSSH1vYXYbG9II5diF_gkOClvVS7G_h4NzMp7j15VXfCZUuV1vto1vYjHoXl6WFeYNuEpsWW5cXlTIpW6hWsNqYfl5nhQdDs3-0JIy3xUcb-MAvc1c/w400-h261/IMG_2032.heic" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And here's what this sample looks like in black and white, showing the different values of the color blends:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRyPXZd3thtx8QBzkiDluZF0kUxCKvbWoDKg9FusdjT7YSCBB2qJFTzYkoc7cI85wtcaF91C35AVfztos21enhVaC7pzrK63Nyg8oHLmYTKLhtZQjxiklG5N04RYIOZUuVoOEQzKWIlC3R52qNAy-CBN1wAo3KA-dmRE7FFFng4GFcw7yUs1byeJfl/s3746/IMG_2032%202.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2441" data-original-width="3746" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRyPXZd3thtx8QBzkiDluZF0kUxCKvbWoDKg9FusdjT7YSCBB2qJFTzYkoc7cI85wtcaF91C35AVfztos21enhVaC7pzrK63Nyg8oHLmYTKLhtZQjxiklG5N04RYIOZUuVoOEQzKWIlC3R52qNAy-CBN1wAo3KA-dmRE7FFFng4GFcw7yUs1byeJfl/w400-h261/IMG_2032%202.heic" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The darkest values, outlining the motifs in the pattern, are where the turquoise crosses the wine and the royal-blue warps, which stands to reason based on the black-and-white photo of the warp yarns.<div><br /></div><div>Looking again at the sample at the beginning of this post: The warp yarns I used are bright green, orange, burgundy, and royal blue. Together, these colors form a rectangular quadratic chord on Itten's color wheel. </div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRbHUvB9FfUe3hCttk_MRSQDBzmRt8qBZqSoBrqdskFrcTRfNUitxosj27Fk7bQqJMWoUd4IcwdyOx1R3GOysDzPUqrqd-jE29R_BcsH8qarru6vKFgUNtKD92rAXSlN82tyJ3yGGLKgtZTfXBf-QWn-Dk5uQZmSP3rFo1mXLMR7dFWb18SX6Oe-v/s3096/51EF729A-0C85-48B2-B023-BE9E8A1FC0DE_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2403" data-original-width="3096" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHRbHUvB9FfUe3hCttk_MRSQDBzmRt8qBZqSoBrqdskFrcTRfNUitxosj27Fk7bQqJMWoUd4IcwdyOx1R3GOysDzPUqrqd-jE29R_BcsH8qarru6vKFgUNtKD92rAXSlN82tyJ3yGGLKgtZTfXBf-QWn-Dk5uQZmSP3rFo1mXLMR7dFWb18SX6Oe-v/w400-h310/51EF729A-0C85-48B2-B023-BE9E8A1FC0DE_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a black and white photo showing the values of these colors. You'll see that the burgundy on the bottom left of the photo has the darkest value and the orange on the bottom right has the lightest value.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPT6Tg6q7Mjt11diPyJu7GxBiX9Oj8q-MntyQOo5UzQkzd6lT4U8eHB2Ycj31c-D4nP3hEVsxBw0VVSLrM8kL2IfSHAIHk7ls_n8xLpVHEBcaJzQma7OwRcIMbtjo46uV1aK6PlwCYVEy6uKfBzsfUBAqMg-ngIg7NoJ1PhCwmkWpDdys94WRTcZ7k/s2850/4FAB7F5D-9FBE-4D9A-9605-2DA87D963926_1_201_a.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3207" data-original-width="2686" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJnwKQwll4_K_H0vs5IQqWUth4YoMd8SrX_pcaK8B99oMENFhcFNMXOvnmYaxuujns5dk8SDMUxZETg6fEBSb4ObeRSlXMOutIk_p2bi0bppza83suIM6nfRO-oS4D84PaDtC7NrhmK14KkEsgvnJw_x6IW2P_fTqb8hGhQFZTS15t98FPd9tQ-4xu/w335-h400/F988E07C-39B4-4BB2-83AA-BBC860511A36_1_201_a.jpeg" width="335" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><p style="text-align: left;">The different values shape the pattern, defining the forms and adding depth. The burgundy adds a shadow, almost an outline, while the orange/yellow appears to sit on top of the sample. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPT6Tg6q7Mjt11diPyJu7GxBiX9Oj8q-MntyQOo5UzQkzd6lT4U8eHB2Ycj31c-D4nP3hEVsxBw0VVSLrM8kL2IfSHAIHk7ls_n8xLpVHEBcaJzQma7OwRcIMbtjo46uV1aK6PlwCYVEy6uKfBzsfUBAqMg-ngIg7NoJ1PhCwmkWpDdys94WRTcZ7k/s2850/4FAB7F5D-9FBE-4D9A-9605-2DA87D963926_1_201_a.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2597" data-original-width="2850" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPT6Tg6q7Mjt11diPyJu7GxBiX9Oj8q-MntyQOo5UzQkzd6lT4U8eHB2Ycj31c-D4nP3hEVsxBw0VVSLrM8kL2IfSHAIHk7ls_n8xLpVHEBcaJzQma7OwRcIMbtjo46uV1aK6PlwCYVEy6uKfBzsfUBAqMg-ngIg7NoJ1PhCwmkWpDdys94WRTcZ7k/w400-h365/4FAB7F5D-9FBE-4D9A-9605-2DA87D963926_1_201_a.heic" width="400" /></a></p>4) Itten's <b>five-tone chords</b> combine the equilateral and isosceles triangles. These templates are useful when you're creating a four-color parallel threading, for instance, and you're looking for ideas for weft colors as well.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw7pyjKDhuev9usclOojjZeUC9iylEEVtWWYy5iOjzaShqyzm1O8RVSSm0NBTeD6jJnre6fLoLrfskZoQJMdr7exdxR9mwfqsALcW8bqOucr71WTiO06CHpDMJjJzDCWpISubfbqkA4zWbm4Um04-8bHRXAHeRHdCv6MDAgPwKxyiw3JPDTpTcjtHd/s2813/IMG_2218.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2813" data-original-width="2790" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw7pyjKDhuev9usclOojjZeUC9iylEEVtWWYy5iOjzaShqyzm1O8RVSSm0NBTeD6jJnre6fLoLrfskZoQJMdr7exdxR9mwfqsALcW8bqOucr71WTiO06CHpDMJjJzDCWpISubfbqkA4zWbm4Um04-8bHRXAHeRHdCv6MDAgPwKxyiw3JPDTpTcjtHd/w396-h400/IMG_2218.heic" width="396" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Five-tone color chord of green, yellow/green, red/orange, blue/violet, and blue</i></div><div><p>5) Finally, there are two different <b>six-tone chords</b> that are revealed by rotating a hexagonal template on the color wheel, the first one giving you two six-tone chords, each consisting of three complementary colors. Both templates in this category use two equilateral triangles: the first one has all colors equidistant from each other, giving you four different chords to choose from, and the second combines two equilaterial triangles to form an irregular hexagon. These two templates are useful in choosing warp and weft colors for Echo woven as doubleweave, where you have four colors in the warp and two colors in the weft. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaDhwo6_wXE8XV0N1NrFy7x9iIynXmZgMs4wsG6VcMikJsgY4S0taMo9OKHLSqfXvMp-DHEkPVmfBxrWDkJs_yoyg3D1ZfNt2xNtQTvjZTTKNGK5QaYeuSUWo-TR-h1noKhLNq1bCHP8kHe_zYPG6L8zYocV3mDdtLRwKq6pT9of9I9F28MF1IvT7q/s4032/IMG_2096.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaDhwo6_wXE8XV0N1NrFy7x9iIynXmZgMs4wsG6VcMikJsgY4S0taMo9OKHLSqfXvMp-DHEkPVmfBxrWDkJs_yoyg3D1ZfNt2xNtQTvjZTTKNGK5QaYeuSUWo-TR-h1noKhLNq1bCHP8kHe_zYPG6L8zYocV3mDdtLRwKq6pT9of9I9F28MF1IvT7q/w400-h300/IMG_2096.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Using a hexagonal template for a six-tone chord, I've chosen warp colors that form a trapezoid on the six-tone template </i><i>-- suggesting, for doubleweave, I should try orange/yellow or blue/green in the weft.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMRqHqNf09mZJi7px5ACLIyHHx37sgb2weNqe4MF-NELDL6MhWwiKYxhKP7ZeKQq-Xh0WU4HSd2JSCKFXea4hb7ezXWJ0PJSZzBpy_mAXaSYlgI1YGJ45pGtNqyM4TNlmZjgnM01J6PjgmUz0u-lL5ankxihsokQquQpPXa4wTtl9TYy18nDW1Vsg/s3888/81A1FB34-9E0D-451F-9944-9803EAF71091_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMRqHqNf09mZJi7px5ACLIyHHx37sgb2weNqe4MF-NELDL6MhWwiKYxhKP7ZeKQq-Xh0WU4HSd2JSCKFXea4hb7ezXWJ0PJSZzBpy_mAXaSYlgI1YGJ45pGtNqyM4TNlmZjgnM01J6PjgmUz0u-lL5ankxihsokQquQpPXa4wTtl9TYy18nDW1Vsg/w400-h266/81A1FB34-9E0D-451F-9944-9803EAF71091_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><i>A plug for subjective color choices: Here's a Jin sample where I went rogue and, weaving with the warp colors above, chose hot pink as the weft. Further, I used a wool/stainless-steel yarn in the weft, which gives the fabric pleats (how firm or soft depends on how you shape it, because the stainless steel has memory).</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRKaC1IKDPuTjEvaDxmkPOCW8wkUthyyKPV1KmhNp9syYPfwo_eHrUtsGcBqg--K9U7gYB62ClY4GUQQA3WRGa4SG7QWC6XvYKZ6DbnI7CIkDxq_sGsUFnl8WCUIbodJnwyfpcMusXPZWeSgLLDKoPCq0xjEbvWIGY55H_Jtm7ss_FIRex7s2oeo7h/s2667/IMG_2217.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2539" data-original-width="2667" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRKaC1IKDPuTjEvaDxmkPOCW8wkUthyyKPV1KmhNp9syYPfwo_eHrUtsGcBqg--K9U7gYB62ClY4GUQQA3WRGa4SG7QWC6XvYKZ6DbnI7CIkDxq_sGsUFnl8WCUIbodJnwyfpcMusXPZWeSgLLDKoPCq0xjEbvWIGY55H_Jtm7ss_FIRex7s2oeo7h/w400-h381/IMG_2217.heic" width="400" /></a></div><br /><i>Six-tone chord forming an irregular hexagon (using two equilateral triangles) and showing green, yellow/green, orange, red/orange, violet, blue/violet. These would be great colors to choose for doubleweave, with four colors in the warp and two in the weft.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">There's a lot of science involved in how we perceive color and value, obviously. For example, the rods and cones in our eyes allow us to interpret value and color, respectively. Simply put, the rods are more numerous and highly sensitive to light; they work for night vision and peripheral vision. The cones, each devoted to the colors of red, blue, or green, work together to allow our brains to detect the full spectrum. We weave for what we perceive visually in form and color (and substance, which is tactile, but that's another subject).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is not to say that Itten's chords are hard and fast rules to weave by. (If they were, I would break them a lot.) Instead, I see his theories as objective road maps, a guide when I'm in search of color ideas to achieve interesting color blending for parallel-threaded warps. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Certainly, I believe that subjective color choices are as important -- perhaps more important, who can say -- for our weaving because, after all, if we don't like the colors we're working with, we probably won't like the end results.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Whatever colors we choose -- objective, subjective, analogous, complementary, harmonious, discordant, even black and white, which aren't colors at all -- it's a joy to learn as much as we can, to sample, to gain insights, to venture outside our comfort zone, and then perhaps to return gladly to our comfort zone, a bit more aware of how best to dwell in it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLOPgOqDaY_Gtr2VzK2_-3Ql0WqS9XSLVZV4au7pkUvmSZXicKBkp6MkKlvH-aHG8Q88pQ-BkhCC9joXSiG5nKXGzRclLl7FSDCoaNh4YvkgceOyUlgFVAcG1RS_V3uOqUMmvnKzNhRxrC_avVFnQXYvHNT6QYAyYrfXILPfPHXYBvbUY6oo-5YLl7/s1280/wave-4333472_1280.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLOPgOqDaY_Gtr2VzK2_-3Ql0WqS9XSLVZV4au7pkUvmSZXicKBkp6MkKlvH-aHG8Q88pQ-BkhCC9joXSiG5nKXGzRclLl7FSDCoaNh4YvkgceOyUlgFVAcG1RS_V3uOqUMmvnKzNhRxrC_avVFnQXYvHNT6QYAyYrfXILPfPHXYBvbUY6oo-5YLl7/s320/wave-4333472_1280.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Turquoise. Gets me every time.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div>Thanks for reading!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /><br /><br /> </p></div></div>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-83159397985749386732023-03-15T16:26:00.004-04:002023-03-15T16:26:59.895-04:00Can't Make the MAFA Conference? How About 'MAFA Mini'?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA1CzP1XFWd1V4alwi2xZ1fJJ0smv9L5bAanLVMABODs1830Xum0s2KCbn_AsbyS7FmbLxMOhcHTJZ4EWD4-N63NEKPvav5kd6fcsqKiywDeGozVU6XvnJ7JOVoQFPLaznMmFja_MxPZyFJ_vCHKNyRzOzblQRD9SziGj4KwW780doCN_wrh0buQ3F/s3296/MAFA-2023-Mini-Virtual-Conference-Brochure.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3296" data-original-width="2546" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA1CzP1XFWd1V4alwi2xZ1fJJ0smv9L5bAanLVMABODs1830Xum0s2KCbn_AsbyS7FmbLxMOhcHTJZ4EWD4-N63NEKPvav5kd6fcsqKiywDeGozVU6XvnJ7JOVoQFPLaznMmFja_MxPZyFJ_vCHKNyRzOzblQRD9SziGj4KwW780doCN_wrh0buQ3F/w494-h640/MAFA-2023-Mini-Virtual-Conference-Brochure.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Coming this July to a computer near you: MAFA Mini! For those of you who can't make it to the on-site Mid-Atlantic Fiber Association conference in Millersville, PA, this June 22-24, you can Zoom into MAFA Mini. No traveling, no room and board, just lots of learning about fiber art.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'll be teaching a half-day workshop on how to make Dorset Buttons (see the photo at the top of the poster) -- one of some three dozen online classes in weaving, spinning, dyeing, garment construction, and more. Plus a keynote, lectures, movies, and even yoga. Here's the full schedule. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZlSuwOpuUx3_U70eBgDRGjTM_2qLmUXOo-BYvagl6mqMCs3ELSCdvtPQQ6jo-1eTA_HVLwNHE8OxBf_DF9H-PjHdKrUUfyQ6DBR9Dlm21Yn_j9GltBKSJnlzA6fRSR9aucUOM5TljP4gwozE-dLKNulebVUDTGK4q_iSx991OFVt16iZjrqkIaTs6/s3300/MAFA-2023-Mini-Virtual-Conference-Brochure.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2550" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZlSuwOpuUx3_U70eBgDRGjTM_2qLmUXOo-BYvagl6mqMCs3ELSCdvtPQQ6jo-1eTA_HVLwNHE8OxBf_DF9H-PjHdKrUUfyQ6DBR9Dlm21Yn_j9GltBKSJnlzA6fRSR9aucUOM5TljP4gwozE-dLKNulebVUDTGK4q_iSx991OFVt16iZjrqkIaTs6/w494-h640/MAFA-2023-Mini-Virtual-Conference-Brochure.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Registration begins April 1. For details, click <a href="https://mafafiber.org/virtual/mini-2023/" target="_blank">here</a>. Hope to see you online!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-58288253874964744092023-02-25T23:15:00.003-05:002023-02-25T23:38:23.237-05:00Not-So-Random Acts of Color: Johannes Itten's Color Chords<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj79G0V0ZztUG2K6v44yJzU9XiR73UlzlMkqGKEyFM5J9Tgu703fgYHnXs90GLcRad75bmD3FswPtaRc57TqeyBSeE9rgl1Q7SBDi6vop_10brFDvlKGPQ6ByIm2IEGmVC-8qRVnlzBuGEsFNrb-DgTByBxw-Iasr7cR_VKfImObA7AylODEGi0uGGs/s2690/Itten's%20color%20star.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2690" data-original-width="1800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj79G0V0ZztUG2K6v44yJzU9XiR73UlzlMkqGKEyFM5J9Tgu703fgYHnXs90GLcRad75bmD3FswPtaRc57TqeyBSeE9rgl1Q7SBDi6vop_10brFDvlKGPQ6ByIm2IEGmVC-8qRVnlzBuGEsFNrb-DgTByBxw-Iasr7cR_VKfImObA7AylODEGi0uGGs/w268-h400/Itten's%20color%20star.jpeg" width="268" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />In 1921, Johannes Itten -- a painter and teacher at Germany's famed Bauhaus School -- published <u>The Color Star</u>, a small book featuring a 12-point color wheel that's been valued by artists ever since. The book included eight templates that one can place over the color star, displaying a variety of what he termed "color chords". Every point on the star represents one color in the spectrum, and every color is shown in a range beginning with the lightest tints (white added) and moving outward to the three darkest shades (black added). <p></p><p>The pure colors are in the center band of the circle.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiXP5c1fnMfewBauJ52c6x_1RqEQJgQVkbjjqP9EbrcLaKmaa4HirPEWyZ9L0g6zqfPBEINbH2-Fjy2zCUBOL4ltsYCVNhPtzYfz_uXKNj7qx6sc49M3Qsi1436V7bdGy4hzNAYaQnzQmlmVC_HFKg0FPQFkg3KgZINryTCNLR6w2lbQPvQtRx58ch/s2282/D83FDECC-020F-4D00-AAEA-76D99B46817F_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1998" data-original-width="2282" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiXP5c1fnMfewBauJ52c6x_1RqEQJgQVkbjjqP9EbrcLaKmaa4HirPEWyZ9L0g6zqfPBEINbH2-Fjy2zCUBOL4ltsYCVNhPtzYfz_uXKNj7qx6sc49M3Qsi1436V7bdGy4hzNAYaQnzQmlmVC_HFKg0FPQFkg3KgZINryTCNLR6w2lbQPvQtRx58ch/s320/D83FDECC-020F-4D00-AAEA-76D99B46817F_1_201_a.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Itten's Color Star</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Itten's first template shows you the two-tone Dyadic Chords, giving you all of the complementary colors: yellow/violet, yellow-orange/blue-violet, orange/blue, red-orange/blue-green, red/green, and red-violet/yellow-green. <div><br /></div><div>His Triadic Chords can be created using either isosceles or equilateral triangles, as seen here with the template for an equilateral triangle (and some yarn possibilities).<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCrHhmW4lk1hf3ia6T8u28FKJ16ZkYM9bbFam3BNAXxfVaOZPvo74BXAKfUWcZkSGE8O6GOgMTWXnLGLZtC8Zl4E98cqCFTYxkCYFd7sJgiiJ3gD3zQRVmJMRowH52q9_vi8neZk8t9NRtU1TUVhwOnf_B_fZo5yHDzhsCJfpYA7ggJAdVGCVztQq-/s4032/Triadic%20color%20chord.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCrHhmW4lk1hf3ia6T8u28FKJ16ZkYM9bbFam3BNAXxfVaOZPvo74BXAKfUWcZkSGE8O6GOgMTWXnLGLZtC8Zl4E98cqCFTYxkCYFd7sJgiiJ3gD3zQRVmJMRowH52q9_vi8neZk8t9NRtU1TUVhwOnf_B_fZo5yHDzhsCJfpYA7ggJAdVGCVztQq-/w300-h400/Triadic%20color%20chord.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Without going into more detail, I'll get to the point: I use these chords to choose warp colors for extended-parallel threadings, which use two, or three, or four colors in the warp. The results can create beautiful iridescent shifts in the fabric. Like this sample, using a four-color parallel threading on eight shafts with a turquoise weft.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGorMM1UqE1OcbcKZhh-eqPWn2hhCoi3OFE0d_pbLNVVEpuFbyMrUmZIWEI-fSkls9BOtesZdEdOnE8TnRug98jUFHNmKXWVeJtduZlTwJ337_ApVK24XN8eUAuEvmxmC39wlcwO9snPPBSzLcyeqdCKI6-AGtJTp1HBHAgrOV3eFxJaIJtw4CVoIe/s3848/IMG_2032.heic"><img border="0" data-original-height="2578" data-original-width="3848" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGorMM1UqE1OcbcKZhh-eqPWn2hhCoi3OFE0d_pbLNVVEpuFbyMrUmZIWEI-fSkls9BOtesZdEdOnE8TnRug98jUFHNmKXWVeJtduZlTwJ337_ApVK24XN8eUAuEvmxmC39wlcwO9snPPBSzLcyeqdCKI6-AGtJTp1HBHAgrOV3eFxJaIJtw4CVoIe/w400-h268/IMG_2032.heic" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Or this variation, with a burgundy weft:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWXRDxYiNK7_u89w3qY6I85Zm3D5GSIxcxJxckUgreggXk5rCrLDm6cxRhxNjrXmjAasYadA9sCNrNoDSclfJTIMFbztxLUbyCVYauOurSTXR8zb_YFNjCC6Of679rIKt_7WbCuy-eCnCg6feuwD4yyZtA7_JCEjdqalcbyrSvjpIfIcuUjwOlbiRg/s1908/IMG_2023.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1776" data-original-width="1908" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWXRDxYiNK7_u89w3qY6I85Zm3D5GSIxcxJxckUgreggXk5rCrLDm6cxRhxNjrXmjAasYadA9sCNrNoDSclfJTIMFbztxLUbyCVYauOurSTXR8zb_YFNjCC6Of679rIKt_7WbCuy-eCnCg6feuwD4yyZtA7_JCEjdqalcbyrSvjpIfIcuUjwOlbiRg/w400-h373/IMG_2023.heic" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Or this, with a violet weft:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZS1dxsd0Kr4pSuFibosxlgC_eh1vxn9uzuVakCEKvDCE3eC2Ze7zNWYSj8skUWIsbCUN6xl8bXxc9NLVlfmCoZyzfuss-vqQ2OX8bc4EJ_gJ0rKMjLTHyxjkc3c3_6GOaWYa3U7PCma7bAbKk5vuh2uxpmeYoiuqqwFpc-Y9ybqu9siNR5rWyj-V/s4032/IMG_2034.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZS1dxsd0Kr4pSuFibosxlgC_eh1vxn9uzuVakCEKvDCE3eC2Ze7zNWYSj8skUWIsbCUN6xl8bXxc9NLVlfmCoZyzfuss-vqQ2OX8bc4EJ_gJ0rKMjLTHyxjkc3c3_6GOaWYa3U7PCma7bAbKk5vuh2uxpmeYoiuqqwFpc-Y9ybqu9siNR5rWyj-V/w300-h400/IMG_2034.HEIC" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For the warp colors, I used the one of the templates for Itten's Quadratic Chord, which can be a square or a rectangle. In this case, I chose the square and based on this I went with saturated colors. Go big and bold or go home, right?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZKbFPAnUnMwvCj9pbHd8IlQntF9H6eaKl3nSfVzH4iM2nw5y-hIbZkv5LKxMyHfPZq8l2hOSUqI_xGVi-9COgP743ZT66szTmdk-glTuQkBCzusWnCRaVn5dpQ56Y2unOjNGh2DzzFdjssgPqzc1x-X0qgDYPY4JZKhTM3CcKnXtl2NFfEdeXFCdV/s2340/00819D79-E2F9-4C55-9562-A808A7767134_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2333" data-original-width="2340" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZKbFPAnUnMwvCj9pbHd8IlQntF9H6eaKl3nSfVzH4iM2nw5y-hIbZkv5LKxMyHfPZq8l2hOSUqI_xGVi-9COgP743ZT66szTmdk-glTuQkBCzusWnCRaVn5dpQ56Y2unOjNGh2DzzFdjssgPqzc1x-X0qgDYPY4JZKhTM3CcKnXtl2NFfEdeXFCdV/w400-h399/00819D79-E2F9-4C55-9562-A808A7767134_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The samples will be used in a workshop I'm presenting at <a href="https://mafafiber.org/conferences/mafa2023/" target="_blank">MAFA</a> this June: "Echo and Jin: Playing with Color Chords". My aim is to familiarize weavers with Itten's objective theories about color chords and then let them choose their own colors within that framework.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Everyone's rods and cones are different, we know. Not everybody likes olive in their warp, correct? These subjective decisions are what makes our creations unique.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's the warp I'm threading right now, using a Quadratic Color Chord that's a rectangle rather than a square. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhydPlDdfqiIXP8kf7oErxHFmPlbb_CYW9SEM1zNFI6kdaVUrL2jU5WfLXWp4ug9HUENUoHGi2M4t4sVeMF-0clPDmCqx2na9ANFUUEC3MVJ2gKOxb3MEwM34TeUEqeTcXdmwlUANbjmN3XA2mZDlfoeB9HGs0j5N50qHShw6aooaHjQmyurJDaDBe6/s2945/IMG_2080%202.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="2945" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhydPlDdfqiIXP8kf7oErxHFmPlbb_CYW9SEM1zNFI6kdaVUrL2jU5WfLXWp4ug9HUENUoHGi2M4t4sVeMF-0clPDmCqx2na9ANFUUEC3MVJ2gKOxb3MEwM34TeUEqeTcXdmwlUANbjmN3XA2mZDlfoeB9HGs0j5N50qHShw6aooaHjQmyurJDaDBe6/w400-h391/IMG_2080%202.heic" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil7kNxAdWXlzLxlS8IjtlRw6n0LtvBK6d8MFSGHq3neHnH1Y9-iMMYb9dxrqmcH-ETDKVjzah6CV4B-amdwdM5O9nH-Ni1zbSbkZFJRtKKOaSLbGCVWFKtU2V9TocXtgbjOdWACMkcCSm_EwQZrIPGTFMltvoyH7COXOSNCojDIophK1tKfnzybdBz/s3230/IMG_2081%202.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3230" data-original-width="2675" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil7kNxAdWXlzLxlS8IjtlRw6n0LtvBK6d8MFSGHq3neHnH1Y9-iMMYb9dxrqmcH-ETDKVjzah6CV4B-amdwdM5O9nH-Ni1zbSbkZFJRtKKOaSLbGCVWFKtU2V9TocXtgbjOdWACMkcCSm_EwQZrIPGTFMltvoyH7COXOSNCojDIophK1tKfnzybdBz/w331-h400/IMG_2081%202.heic" width="331" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It will be used with a 12-shaft pattern -- and I really love these colors. Consider that you're looking at two sets of complements: blue/orange and green/red (except in this case the red tilts more toward a berry color). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My next plan is to try a trapezoid as a color chord. Itten doesn't offer that in his templates, but I think it's worth trying. Mother Nature seems to range freely and quite joyously around the spectrum, so why can't we?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_3IzgxPbtaKBYflN1lCbMtGd8dUWyAXkBJ2xsxb-uUmXxmiWydTrEgXlUgTZEp4CxbU4o8u_I4yA9h4vq6NzpkipDviU82SGqpirwYGmwfDU9eoKdIbG_c5-JSO-Ib7weJkTKki1xmQ_iMe39vlmEYt70xHz7d-RogJFeEjGMgtKiWr11lB1pcwWf/s3245/IMG_2082%203.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3245" data-original-width="2801" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_3IzgxPbtaKBYflN1lCbMtGd8dUWyAXkBJ2xsxb-uUmXxmiWydTrEgXlUgTZEp4CxbU4o8u_I4yA9h4vq6NzpkipDviU82SGqpirwYGmwfDU9eoKdIbG_c5-JSO-Ib7weJkTKki1xmQ_iMe39vlmEYt70xHz7d-RogJFeEjGMgtKiWr11lB1pcwWf/s320/IMG_2082%203.heic" width="276" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">This discussion doesn't venture into the importance of value. At this point, without having focused on this topic, my thinking is that it's best to avoid extreme differences in value in a parallel-threaded warp, particularly in a four-end parallel-threaded warp. Some differences in value are OK, but I try to avoid colors like navy, deep purple, forest green, and the like -- or, on the other side of the value scale, yellow, beige, pale pink, baby blue, silver, that range of hues. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">Why? Because the warp color with a very dark value may tamp down the effect of iridescence, while a warp color with a very light value may overwhelm the other colors -- sort of like a singer in a quartet who is louder than anyone else. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">Looking at values, here's what I chose for my first warp (the one I wove on eight shafts, samples shown at the beginning of this post).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9EUpe9Jq7c9Nlh0JYpcxH3a-V4hqdIa1mka6Y7qE-QoPTj0iVeAzjtnhbHf85ED9nAI4tCI-kDMmpTx929oEWvtTHI8wi84gzW7xSfdkm4hGzlvgZ0yb2nE8D2AgkGFJdzjJlzFzdr_IWeUb4fDxHWDeenVXs8M9zVEqXCvKqNSAJR-NcXizWxToi/s3007/5FB3F172-41A9-4BE4-9EA5-012D67FCFAAC_1_201_a%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3007" data-original-width="2136" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9EUpe9Jq7c9Nlh0JYpcxH3a-V4hqdIa1mka6Y7qE-QoPTj0iVeAzjtnhbHf85ED9nAI4tCI-kDMmpTx929oEWvtTHI8wi84gzW7xSfdkm4hGzlvgZ0yb2nE8D2AgkGFJdzjJlzFzdr_IWeUb4fDxHWDeenVXs8M9zVEqXCvKqNSAJR-NcXizWxToi/s320/5FB3F172-41A9-4BE4-9EA5-012D67FCFAAC_1_201_a%202.jpeg" width="227" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDq7YADX3VjwcRgsGSWyGOlwRdjbxJxNSV5DQk7ZGSZKdp9hp1JHChdwqYFJZnLczAkiPtAdvUlnKBOxw_Lv0_lv_RHKSZOhKC08z50h-wLe_GA96kB3V3Ya7dzGicL4iBWs3mv1iGIuZEfq83yDmBQJLdUwqTjI_xp_vZnoicheqZ_UJc6N_hxjg5/s3007/5FB3F172-41A9-4BE4-9EA5-012D67FCFAAC_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3007" data-original-width="2136" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDq7YADX3VjwcRgsGSWyGOlwRdjbxJxNSV5DQk7ZGSZKdp9hp1JHChdwqYFJZnLczAkiPtAdvUlnKBOxw_Lv0_lv_RHKSZOhKC08z50h-wLe_GA96kB3V3Ya7dzGicL4iBWs3mv1iGIuZEfq83yDmBQJLdUwqTjI_xp_vZnoicheqZ_UJc6N_hxjg5/s320/5FB3F172-41A9-4BE4-9EA5-012D67FCFAAC_1_201_a.jpeg" width="227" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The red on the far left is darker in value than I'd like -- and surprisingly, it's darker in value than the blue on the far right -- but I went with it anyway because that's what I had in my stash. (That can overrule a lot of rules.) Still, if you look back at the samples at the top of this post, it seems to work well.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Another question: What do we choose for weft? Sampling is so important for this, of course. Typically, I start any project by winding a warp that is about a yard longer than I need for the finished piece and then I use the first yard or so to experiment with different weft colors.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When I'm weaving Echo or Jin on a four-end parallel, I tend to use muted colors in mid-range values, such as bronze, violet, teal, olive, mustard, terra cotta, even gray. Also, as a rule of thumb, you'll want to use colors that do not appear in the warp -- that is, colors that are found in between the colors you've chosen from the color wheel. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Then again, for every rule there seems to be an exception, as you see in the fourth photo down from the start of this blog post. For that sample, I used a bright turquoise weft. I love turquoise and find that I often default to that color, for warp or weft.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Itten would say this is a subjective choice, of course. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnBG2CMqv8qQgqPnqz_Qn9kF7edZt0iM-1HDXUk_zOGfQHbwiCxgKNmGWnR38vsPTjhYXMJFupJKDDzSqUXqbemZXcAfLutRCa5KQU_23fSwXMi0oOFvnZNV4yJltym54yrgsw8lSRv7mj2qbvSBSz3a0U7Sre9ikynlvzQGdU98YiPE9Wetv7oLId/s1694/F7F36053-CD7C-4BA4-AC52-82C5E8F5C723_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1542" data-original-width="1694" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnBG2CMqv8qQgqPnqz_Qn9kF7edZt0iM-1HDXUk_zOGfQHbwiCxgKNmGWnR38vsPTjhYXMJFupJKDDzSqUXqbemZXcAfLutRCa5KQU_23fSwXMi0oOFvnZNV4yJltym54yrgsw8lSRv7mj2qbvSBSz3a0U7Sre9ikynlvzQGdU98YiPE9Wetv7oLId/s320/F7F36053-CD7C-4BA4-AC52-82C5E8F5C723_1_201_a.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Doubleweave on 16 shafts </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>using a four-end extended-parallel threading</i></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-56306010790714899702023-01-06T17:45:00.000-05:002023-01-06T17:45:48.405-05:00Book Launch! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx9pvJWnxyDVNUQQdNTKFrzat0kvSkArm4z7aEA6GhDXYnII-QlzAxHeCayXST3BvoZDRjVaOXSDTpMLeDjpqmOzLMC8vlZQINFai1qJ5mc6k8oK9_tqsmbqKVVPRE06l6tV6r2WQ1QXo2PrA7e5UhAJU_FKtGcgatizkUJvlNS04i6CQLKdWAgUNH/s675/christening-shiplaunch.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="675" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx9pvJWnxyDVNUQQdNTKFrzat0kvSkArm4z7aEA6GhDXYnII-QlzAxHeCayXST3BvoZDRjVaOXSDTpMLeDjpqmOzLMC8vlZQINFai1qJ5mc6k8oK9_tqsmbqKVVPRE06l6tV6r2WQ1QXo2PrA7e5UhAJU_FKtGcgatizkUJvlNS04i6CQLKdWAgUNH/w400-h315/christening-shiplaunch.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><u>Weaving Outside the Box: 12 Projects for Creating Dimensional Cloth</u> is now available for purchase! It's been a long road but at last it's ready to launch.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDbbiS77gayiRdL989TNtrCR8khxcs0cCToud8Xrip53jj04X9UcIWEYcE3ESBn2uka1iImCpBREOR3_Bi7Q9UsBc0XP7PTVJaum7NdITP2qes288fVf1E35KYCKgTUm4R9S31M1R01iG4ZM-B8IMf7CfQ71PYMu0RNRZk3p61wt6t7gQXPIfPdlbV/s4075/Front%20and%20back%20cover%20for%20printing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="4075" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDbbiS77gayiRdL989TNtrCR8khxcs0cCToud8Xrip53jj04X9UcIWEYcE3ESBn2uka1iImCpBREOR3_Bi7Q9UsBc0XP7PTVJaum7NdITP2qes288fVf1E35KYCKgTUm4R9S31M1R01iG4ZM-B8IMf7CfQ71PYMu0RNRZk3p61wt6t7gQXPIfPdlbV/w400-h265/Front%20and%20back%20cover%20for%20printing.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Front and back covers (right and left respectively) for printing</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The book is 122 pages long, in full color, with a soft cover and a coil binding so that you can lay it flat as you read and weave. It's also available as an eBook and in hardcover. You'll find all these options on this blog site under the page titled "<a href="https://www.denisekovnat.com/p/download-mini-workshop.html" target="_blank">Publications for Purchase</a>".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a brief description:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Color and structure are key elements in weaving, of course. But we often overlook the importance of texture. Dimensional fabrics, with their pleats, puffs, and curves, take us 'off the grid', reflecting the organic forms of nature. We can both see and feel the tactile quality of dimensional cloth, which adds much to the beauty of handwoven fabric.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"This book gives you tools to optimize texture in your weaving. Starting with background on the techniques involved, it then offers step-by-step instructions for 12 projects for four to 16-shaft looms: four for beginning weavers, four for intermediate weavers, and four for advanced weavers. As a bonus, there are two patterns that allow you to weave three different projects on a single warp.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"<u>Weaving Outside the Box</u> provides the tips and resources you need to move beyond the two-dimensional plane and rectilinear patterns of warp and weft."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are a few of the projects offered.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR62yNkPk-X4U_VyJfUJsBcvUZxHgnj0CwNTHT81xffDbdJR0HdDUEjAfLeodheOHebir4ZQlQpnaRXF0low-QnbOSxwpRK6yCcwW0IO4iVqFxWNo2_Xkbqayqjj9lQSL4H30psuoiJKXnM42IQ8O5ZsvkJj56ltCHRwJV5kTo2pTosSlYxYdhcb_O/s3241/1CDC9713-AF9F-4FB3-AD13-D8FC2C1A6376_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3241" data-original-width="2549" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR62yNkPk-X4U_VyJfUJsBcvUZxHgnj0CwNTHT81xffDbdJR0HdDUEjAfLeodheOHebir4ZQlQpnaRXF0low-QnbOSxwpRK6yCcwW0IO4iVqFxWNo2_Xkbqayqjj9lQSL4H30psuoiJKXnM42IQ8O5ZsvkJj56ltCHRwJV5kTo2pTosSlYxYdhcb_O/w315-h400/1CDC9713-AF9F-4FB3-AD13-D8FC2C1A6376_1_201_a.jpeg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Among the four projects for four shafts: woven shibori using fulling techniques</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LFB8miEbFgy_BI0Wgzw-5tto_rBqoUoNfIaj9en2CC5f1kWNPUc_xFSo__99InGdeGHoZUCOG99qYLarGISKFl3JAKlKxKSFpWB1bMFb73SLuqwtjL4WLXAAW3ZJSTXcPxLTCX1aSANM5PIYJds2KlkCMPL9A_sDnRLERTBxeyZXyCGJiU9Hl4d_/s3184/DE92EA7B-778E-402F-9B11-73A6C936BA3C_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3184" data-original-width="2483" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LFB8miEbFgy_BI0Wgzw-5tto_rBqoUoNfIaj9en2CC5f1kWNPUc_xFSo__99InGdeGHoZUCOG99qYLarGISKFl3JAKlKxKSFpWB1bMFb73SLuqwtjL4WLXAAW3ZJSTXcPxLTCX1aSANM5PIYJds2KlkCMPL9A_sDnRLERTBxeyZXyCGJiU9Hl4d_/w313-h400/DE92EA7B-778E-402F-9B11-73A6C936BA3C_1_201_a.jpeg" width="313" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Doubleweave layers and ruffles for eight shafts </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>using differential-shrinkage techniques</i></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1-IMkR6ODXXACwMQh5W-Lhy8ds9Gq_W7jF8dFeXKe9LjW8wxZZ9oXvQTRi4ju5khVnoz7lYpU0bkwEc62aJir4IkRuj5GjzqGoFR7CK9BwvfsQKydF5u3dyykcYxOxd4GYfLJHqe4SYGqo7CGCsj772N2SYYzCKKrfTRt3ZbagJMK-eEIYVAT5Pd/s3139/291C87EE-5665-45FA-B07B-6C26D90FE722_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3139" data-original-width="2525" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv1-IMkR6ODXXACwMQh5W-Lhy8ds9Gq_W7jF8dFeXKe9LjW8wxZZ9oXvQTRi4ju5khVnoz7lYpU0bkwEc62aJir4IkRuj5GjzqGoFR7CK9BwvfsQKydF5u3dyykcYxOxd4GYfLJHqe4SYGqo7CGCsj772N2SYYzCKKrfTRt3ZbagJMK-eEIYVAT5Pd/w321-h400/291C87EE-5665-45FA-B07B-6C26D90FE722_1_201_a.jpeg" width="321" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Deflected doubleweave on 16 shafts </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>using differential-shrinkage techniques</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are diagrams and even microscopic photos of yarn throughout the book, to help you understand the mechanics behind these designs, all using some combination of active and inactive yarns, structure, and finishing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPCL9r_gLsIsWvxSBo2F_BXZTEyjnlrh032Wf0PZJXc56FG8Ir5Vb27zTaZIfHsOqukl8mMR3J5bG3unTn7hrMs3BOkn6l0K13Nm-hVYI5JXlBb5il3ZrqEdX_GjLwXfk4jSopniFE_LqsBKPe7nLu9H0yRwddUM2_dY72x-5JZRH2U5cQWgh60K9G/s3468/2783FD65-55DA-4A4E-8AF3-57AF8CEEB4BD_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3468" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPCL9r_gLsIsWvxSBo2F_BXZTEyjnlrh032Wf0PZJXc56FG8Ir5Vb27zTaZIfHsOqukl8mMR3J5bG3unTn7hrMs3BOkn6l0K13Nm-hVYI5JXlBb5il3ZrqEdX_GjLwXfk4jSopniFE_LqsBKPe7nLu9H0yRwddUM2_dY72x-5JZRH2U5cQWgh60K9G/w400-h294/2783FD65-55DA-4A4E-8AF3-57AF8CEEB4BD_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will teach a workshop straight from the book June 11-16 at the Michigan League of Handweavers Conference in Holland, MI. Participants will choose one of the 12 projects from the book and start by weaving up samples so they can learn how to finish their projects to get just the right textured effects.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dimensional cloth is a specialized area of weaving, one that is sometimes overlooked but has been woven for centuries. My book begins -- and this blog post concludes -- with this quote from Anni Albers, from her definitive book, <u>On Weaving</u>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>All progress, it seems, is coupled to regression elsewhere. We have advanced in general, for instance, in regard to verbal articulation -- the reading and writing public of today is enormous. But we certainly have grown increasingly insensitive in our perception by touch, the tactile sense.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I hope my book inspires weavers to explore all three of the wonderful tools we have in our craft: those of structure, color, and the tactile sense.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for reading!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVlIJkACCo3M4ZNKb4pofecgAntdSCqQ8CjVr0h8ac5r-zAV6N35doy7oNZgjOF7Vd6To8zu2RB8phGWAAOguJuXe6KdS4XxcHr1SRe8CZHE0vkAPPG4lhP_Q5gIknB3bPA6dmri3Im35l7pLM6z3Uyu0wV9pBMvEpH7td8m4fFmRurCAFb_gUTF-C/s3865/2217E50B-8911-43F5-A6E1-9E55E4D06721_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2576" data-original-width="3865" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVlIJkACCo3M4ZNKb4pofecgAntdSCqQ8CjVr0h8ac5r-zAV6N35doy7oNZgjOF7Vd6To8zu2RB8phGWAAOguJuXe6KdS4XxcHr1SRe8CZHE0vkAPPG4lhP_Q5gIknB3bPA6dmri3Im35l7pLM6z3Uyu0wV9pBMvEpH7td8m4fFmRurCAFb_gUTF-C/w400-h266/2217E50B-8911-43F5-A6E1-9E55E4D06721_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Detail of Echo threading in four-color doubleweave on 28 shafts, </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>using cotton/stainless-steel yarn for one of the wefts </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>to achieve crinkled layers</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><br />Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-17994509994955194832022-12-18T17:05:00.002-05:002022-12-18T17:12:41.701-05:00This Pattern Is More than 400 Years Old... with a Few Changes<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhftvwNOXFnsYyYTsu_BZ7Wqle5dZIkuWpAfZWv7tJBexXJ7GnQFVEzFyABFoF58uZBFbVqRHYG1KnAFXNlTk7YtqWN5iu-B_YxEG0n9by_jiFJBI_dE_DugukBqo83Oz_y252AgmEMdgokj6fFFdtvKlescZdeSb1EeLWZF5Ytd76z5g8v3w8Zr_T3/s3072/D40224D7-885D-4A96-A2A9-820A4FA3F850_1_201_a.jpeg"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="2382" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhftvwNOXFnsYyYTsu_BZ7Wqle5dZIkuWpAfZWv7tJBexXJ7GnQFVEzFyABFoF58uZBFbVqRHYG1KnAFXNlTk7YtqWN5iu-B_YxEG0n9by_jiFJBI_dE_DugukBqo83Oz_y252AgmEMdgokj6fFFdtvKlescZdeSb1EeLWZF5Ytd76z5g8v3w8Zr_T3/w310-h400/D40224D7-885D-4A96-A2A9-820A4FA3F850_1_201_a.jpeg" width="310" /></a></div><br /> It all starts with a 1626 portrait of John Erskine, 2nd Earl of Mar and Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, painted by Adam de Colone. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaL1SGQprXDI3EsoUd77nPeCljR6pSWL2xlV0GMAV2AUx1K8DOZBBjghuq-svO9zI6KTwPPUgZZwCiX2raF-CdlaEoL3abfA-Y0idJEq_nUOOsHjPw54m-T3japC7y5WBFkCPniWdhFtYk8IxihV9KeOx7EJEJd_6bz1xiVVl3Js_yODvpLMNL5FR8/s516/Adam_de_Colone_(c.1572-1651)_(attributed_to)_-_John_Erskine_(c.1562%E2%80%931634),_2nd_Earl_of_Mar,_Lord_High_Treasurer_of_Scotland_-_PG_2211_-_National_Galleries_of_Scotland.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaL1SGQprXDI3EsoUd77nPeCljR6pSWL2xlV0GMAV2AUx1K8DOZBBjghuq-svO9zI6KTwPPUgZZwCiX2raF-CdlaEoL3abfA-Y0idJEq_nUOOsHjPw54m-T3japC7y5WBFkCPniWdhFtYk8IxihV9KeOx7EJEJd_6bz1xiVVl3Js_yODvpLMNL5FR8/w341-h400/Adam_de_Colone_(c.1572-1651)_(attributed_to)_-_John_Erskine_(c.1562%E2%80%931634),_2nd_Earl_of_Mar,_Lord_High_Treasurer_of_Scotland_-_PG_2211_-_National_Galleries_of_Scotland.jpg" width="341" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The painting hangs in the National Galleries of Scotland, where researchers have found that the canvas is in fact a linen tablecloth, a practice that was common at the time. The tablecloth was woven on 14 shafts in this Gebrochene pattern.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEOBO6Aey2Lh-rxCmpo6QQAdUdXOc6yqFCsaXb4c3Uz-299NDggJSlZHZl8G71sUIY2WerZbEwwjWofy47ZXKRypqJpL2nN8M0MUN8lCy7ITjNWVgX5wrsDNyypeLcuy_5amqMs8NRUd2IrPP0vreqN8tNoYUhSjLxSGcszzItjb8ZFuUTJdpVpIi/s400/The%20Earl%20on%2014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="399" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEOBO6Aey2Lh-rxCmpo6QQAdUdXOc6yqFCsaXb4c3Uz-299NDggJSlZHZl8G71sUIY2WerZbEwwjWofy47ZXKRypqJpL2nN8M0MUN8lCy7ITjNWVgX5wrsDNyypeLcuy_5amqMs8NRUd2IrPP0vreqN8tNoYUhSjLxSGcszzItjb8ZFuUTJdpVpIi/w399-h400/The%20Earl%20on%2014.jpg" width="399" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you may recall that I've written about this before -- most recently, on September 18, 2022, in a post that gives you more details on how I altered the pattern but kept the original design line. I learned of it maybe 20 years ago from <a href="https://www.complex-weavers.org/seminar-leader/marjie-thompson/" target="_blank">Marjie Thompson</a>, who calls it "The Earl". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was not a stretch to take the threading and create a parallel threading 14 shafts above it, which I did just to see what would happen. I figured it could be woven as Echo or, by adding tabby to the treadling, as Jin (aka Turned Taqueté). The Jin drawdown I designed looks like this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEJeRiugeoYMSXhsvSJgPZ2VfY75yiccpjm2KjXY6OU2qzj3RfwoCWHDfdZw1rx7tLQkFx6z5vxMWnFxzXYrokuw1Jasy4wz44d0QifAYCjSZE71IewYU-bajumoG6h6OONYk_SNfENk0E85FFGNxEnw4FUF6gVYU7J0Mj7QXmwrgzuyC_SMcu6MSM/s1968/The%20Earl%20as%20Jin.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="1968" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEJeRiugeoYMSXhsvSJgPZ2VfY75yiccpjm2KjXY6OU2qzj3RfwoCWHDfdZw1rx7tLQkFx6z5vxMWnFxzXYrokuw1Jasy4wz44d0QifAYCjSZE71IewYU-bajumoG6h6OONYk_SNfENk0E85FFGNxEnw4FUF6gVYU7J0Mj7QXmwrgzuyC_SMcu6MSM/w400-h274/The%20Earl%20as%20Jin.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a detail to give you a better idea of the design.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwRBlRRi_eUUbCcRth6zA8n_6wnyZzoLORD0XxKlcOnu-SIGzYft06f6F3WxFApp9wkYzOD7Uj58cLH0uTw-fewOzTbrNmDZNpr2stmg8-CkULoILPFooZi-dSXyR339kpQW_PdYi0ZO26kTfqehnncxBuRpDooKRha0A1PkVcqAVHOHwvqdJXky8/s2100/The%20Earl%20draft%20detail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1623" data-original-width="2100" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNwRBlRRi_eUUbCcRth6zA8n_6wnyZzoLORD0XxKlcOnu-SIGzYft06f6F3WxFApp9wkYzOD7Uj58cLH0uTw-fewOzTbrNmDZNpr2stmg8-CkULoILPFooZi-dSXyR339kpQW_PdYi0ZO26kTfqehnncxBuRpDooKRha0A1PkVcqAVHOHwvqdJXky8/w400-h309/The%20Earl%20draft%20detail.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I really liked the varied geometry of the pattern, so this is what I used for the motifs in the center of the scarf, using two different weft colors, violet and gold. (The gold is in the central section, where the fabric scrunches up into pleats, seen around the neck on the mannikin. That's because the yarn is a combination of silk tram and stainless steel, which has memory.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The mountain-like motifs at the beginning and end of the scarf -- in purple and orange -- are woven in a doubleweave pattern using what I call a "carved" tieup. (The idea is outlined in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weaving-Echo-Iris-Marian-Stubenitsky/product-reviews/9082218208" target="_blank">Marian Stubenitsky's definitive work, Weaving with <u>Echo and Iris</u></a>, which provides all number of tieup options for Echo woven as doubleweave.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDgRKpcqeB9M-l0KdHPtfvmN6v1HKZYSOboHWua6X7vLnkgbfEuNUufCIUCEI4jAinmGe1p67-BtFw_AlG0AL_1A1JWwdhl-USwnDChRI7XQiagJu3MHiUaJLi6pH69XdT6JPfHP3ZLNjGs1-ViuMkQD8udPzYOEPo6O5Rg_fmUo1Arl3oRnBnDiOv/s2100/The%20Earl%20with%20carved%20doubleweave%20tieup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1623" data-original-width="2100" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDgRKpcqeB9M-l0KdHPtfvmN6v1HKZYSOboHWua6X7vLnkgbfEuNUufCIUCEI4jAinmGe1p67-BtFw_AlG0AL_1A1JWwdhl-USwnDChRI7XQiagJu3MHiUaJLi6pH69XdT6JPfHP3ZLNjGs1-ViuMkQD8udPzYOEPo6O5Rg_fmUo1Arl3oRnBnDiOv/w400-h309/The%20Earl%20with%20carved%20doubleweave%20tieup.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>When you're weaving four-color doubleweave on an Echo threading, these "carved" variations in the tieup make for lots of color shifts, so that a color first appears on top of the cloth and then shifts to the bottom. This maximizes the potential for color blending.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTLrenHsTBUfOoPQT4Q2VFP4GH8j9jwnEB0WUQRLCYl2PjB6uVTLc6J54jNlkBr5029S2z1rU9mpyVgTWdT3TRAej1NZOeMu0sM9aTMBwhX5zKXW8NfgDzEkmErsl_rayGCTCdTqrGRyl7lx7ke_x_WSEVWOmeaoJqscaGHXstVVD5iKakA8atXbKw/s3888/200FD28C-7F37-40A0-95AC-1D0CA5FAD059.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTLrenHsTBUfOoPQT4Q2VFP4GH8j9jwnEB0WUQRLCYl2PjB6uVTLc6J54jNlkBr5029S2z1rU9mpyVgTWdT3TRAej1NZOeMu0sM9aTMBwhX5zKXW8NfgDzEkmErsl_rayGCTCdTqrGRyl7lx7ke_x_WSEVWOmeaoJqscaGHXstVVD5iKakA8atXbKw/w400-h266/200FD28C-7F37-40A0-95AC-1D0CA5FAD059.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Adding to the potential for color play: I used a painted warp combined with a black warp for the parallel threading. The technique is quite simple: You wind a two-color warp of natural and black and then paint the entire warp. The natural-colored yarn absorbs the dye and the black does not. </div><div><br /></div><div>I love the yarn that I used for the warp, and I doubt I will ever find it again, because I got it at one of those wonderful guild sales. It's a 24/3 unmercerized cotton, so I really didn't have to worry about threads breaking and selvages fraying. For the doubleweave weft, I used 16/2 bamboo in blue, orange, and burgundy, and for the Jin wefts, I used 60/2 silk in deep violet and, as I mentioned, tram-silk/stainless-steel in gold, purchased from <a href="https://lunaticfringeyarns.com/" target="_blank">Lunatic Fringe</a>, which pleats and bends in the center section.</div><div><br /></div><div>To me, the motifs look like mountains and the colors remind me of a western sunset. So I've named the piece "Colorado", which means "ruddy" in Spanish. It reminds me of the sunsets over the Sangre de Cristo range, near where my daughter and her family live. The Earl is well traveled indeed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks for reading!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ74rYdcYWEPeW4bKG4gcMkBbxoqaBDS42MbL8LZBxLmT3dMnec1mILXcYfm3HAmMX0RAqz_58vfcOCEOl0vfHmpc1QuES92ksEwg1tYg2YtJ43jdpECT57NNNIVk1hD0w81GyZ-owSOZfElHOB1aU1fV2WMsNMDIWrkH_OYP34G-a2s-iLL9MYCx2/s2745/14CAAB9F-682D-4086-96D3-844DD5EB956C_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2745" data-original-width="1455" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ74rYdcYWEPeW4bKG4gcMkBbxoqaBDS42MbL8LZBxLmT3dMnec1mILXcYfm3HAmMX0RAqz_58vfcOCEOl0vfHmpc1QuES92ksEwg1tYg2YtJ43jdpECT57NNNIVk1hD0w81GyZ-owSOZfElHOB1aU1fV2WMsNMDIWrkH_OYP34G-a2s-iLL9MYCx2/w213-h400/14CAAB9F-682D-4086-96D3-844DD5EB956C_1_201_a.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-54541174907184002012022-11-22T16:45:00.000-05:002022-11-22T16:45:26.886-05:00Anni Albers, "Work with Materials," at the Syracuse University Art Museum<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRF5Gd9JTUjMyzff6smhL0vmJlY4aPvDxDMcKdvOiWuC-lOTZr4oIOtoYtI9JwcrgWQCjCDoJk0VvUHDlU6iqXDTGngiB10sbcKWZghcbXZ32lWjCP9VV03X4EsnvNf6Eqs0454dX1BJkwCqOFspd9D8j1SynNkpkIb7mjOm5aoqKz9S67xzbsBvxS/s1585/07CBD754-F863-401B-897C-5D64DE78DA96_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1585" data-original-width="1318" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRF5Gd9JTUjMyzff6smhL0vmJlY4aPvDxDMcKdvOiWuC-lOTZr4oIOtoYtI9JwcrgWQCjCDoJk0VvUHDlU6iqXDTGngiB10sbcKWZghcbXZ32lWjCP9VV03X4EsnvNf6Eqs0454dX1BJkwCqOFspd9D8j1SynNkpkIb7mjOm5aoqKz9S67xzbsBvxS/w333-h400/07CBD754-F863-401B-897C-5D64DE78DA96_1_201_a.jpeg" width="333" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wall hanging designed by Albers in 1925 and woven in 1983<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">A few guild friends and I took a road trip last week to see the Syracuse University Art Museum exhibit, <a href="https://museum.syr.edu/exhibition/current/anni-albers/" target="_blank">"Anni Albers: Work with Materials,"</a> curated by Fritz Horstman, education director of the <a href="https://www.albersfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Josef and Anni Albers Foundation</a>. The exhibit is up through December 11 and we were thrilled to view some of her designs up close and personal.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The title of the exhibit comes from an essay she wrote, "Work with Materials," in 1937. Here's a quote from that essay:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>But if we want to get from materials the sense of directness, the adventure of being close to the stuff the world is made of, we have to go back to the material itself, to its original state, and from here on partake in its stages of change.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Such eloquence and insight! To me, she writes as well as she weaves. In her classic book, <u><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weaving-New-Expanded-Anni-Albers/dp/0691177856/ref=pd_lpo_1?pd_rd_w=PWVwH&content-id=amzn1.sym.116f529c-aa4d-4763-b2b6-4d614ec7dc00&pf_rd_p=116f529c-aa4d-4763-b2b6-4d614ec7dc00&pf_rd_r=15X0SBJ19E6VEXB5J0A0&pd_rd_wg=kivkH&pd_rd_r=4f478fcb-895c-4515-acc0-7d48b8eb00ff&pd_rd_i=0691177856&psc=1" target="_blank">On Weaving</a></u>, she devotes a chapter to "Tactile Sensibility," to explore and emphasize that unique aspect of our craft. </div></td></tr></tbody></table></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div><i>We touch things to assure ourselves of reality. We touch the objects of our love. We touch the things we form. Our tactile experiences are elemental.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This tactile sense, in addition to the powerful tools of color and structure, is what I love about her work. She explores and exploits the textural aspect of weaving and in so doing appeals to two of our senses -- those of touch <i>and</i> sight. Below, a sample woven on a clear plastic warp with a rough fiber (perhaps jute, I'm not sure) in the weft.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7oL-RWnrciFEQ51FbOzZ_xE31VoXnFm4uwKdw2to84AJy_VauGIuFOrxtLFG-qX7Hm2n-klmqZkFjQjCL0B_SnVCvngKUlHK-rrYpz6sGDvOMl6X-Ej2IPTarkTER63EH3OgpSJnHmzEtOVNy4H333FsdsIKoyfUqhRoiV48InKF6VJvnARNJfYtv/s2400/Albers%20plastic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2400" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7oL-RWnrciFEQ51FbOzZ_xE31VoXnFm4uwKdw2to84AJy_VauGIuFOrxtLFG-qX7Hm2n-klmqZkFjQjCL0B_SnVCvngKUlHK-rrYpz6sGDvOMl6X-Ej2IPTarkTER63EH3OgpSJnHmzEtOVNy4H333FsdsIKoyfUqhRoiV48InKF6VJvnARNJfYtv/w400-h300/Albers%20plastic.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The exhibit included more than 100 objects from the collection, from rugs to prints to textile samples. Small as they were, they revealed her keen mind and powerful design sense. Here's a leno sample that uses a gold metallic yarn in the weft:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCtiNoFY0Qs6PCZswNf6Y0bePDCei26jX__RMk5rLT4fCnOn-afV_TMRAo1dnEJL5JPYTeT2kXnvZrXuf6tzZ7eBSqIvQ9JvZjJf0jTR3CxJcdNjYF5EQgD0fRqei4wJKeaYQXE_j-le6ioiOQ-y8q8Mx2yuFZnEveQmaSAbkBSqgEe9dXZuhuhgKS/s1024/B629E70A-1CCA-4506-B450-A5010FEF51A0_1_105_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCtiNoFY0Qs6PCZswNf6Y0bePDCei26jX__RMk5rLT4fCnOn-afV_TMRAo1dnEJL5JPYTeT2kXnvZrXuf6tzZ7eBSqIvQ9JvZjJf0jTR3CxJcdNjYF5EQgD0fRqei4wJKeaYQXE_j-le6ioiOQ-y8q8Mx2yuFZnEveQmaSAbkBSqgEe9dXZuhuhgKS/w400-h300/B629E70A-1CCA-4506-B450-A5010FEF51A0_1_105_c.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Below is a room divider designed by Albers for a textile company in the early 1980s.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4fOfLYSavutYh_oaogeT3gvZL6cuCoHnQBUX-LGIRykT2i6jDggCzbkAIl-dzSU1XB9E0iZ-JgOfOKJv-aGY_Rffv_xOl0jnQb_hTgXXGCiOiaP0Ga43_OqkBOkLY4xo80ideKErFWt9KfvJD-ZMLZFlaUzIx-qVNDd4_FhWxLY82eEkAv4tqfNtZ/s1800/Albers%20curtain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1350" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4fOfLYSavutYh_oaogeT3gvZL6cuCoHnQBUX-LGIRykT2i6jDggCzbkAIl-dzSU1XB9E0iZ-JgOfOKJv-aGY_Rffv_xOl0jnQb_hTgXXGCiOiaP0Ga43_OqkBOkLY4xo80ideKErFWt9KfvJD-ZMLZFlaUzIx-qVNDd4_FhWxLY82eEkAv4tqfNtZ/w300-h400/Albers%20curtain.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">By 1968, at the age of 69, she had given up her looms and, as Horstman writes in the exhibit pamphlet, "embarked on a breathtaking decade-plus in which she worked almost exclusively in drawing and printmaking". Her appreciation of tactile sensibility, as she termed it, can be seen in her embossed prints, some of which were included in the exhibit. This one, below, is particularly striking. It's described as "zinc plate embossing on metallic laminate on paper" from 1970. (If you look closely, you can see my reflection as I'm taking the photo, which adds another element to the image.)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIujbfQ6q96ue0fZwXeY7rhOr2KXAut36AU-DidDvGour8BRDzQanCih7b7TuYZoYDBdaZ_yyxkzG5yKc3I9kgxiU0EYa79eX6Mj_GEoqZAZjm4i5r5vH-Bvj5rfsnNh7jANKDjMnGU7ha3KURsEokIgi4cZGE6AtF3clis1JiNZS4AHx_QkAaCLom/s947/E3E0F5E3-8139-4EC2-B70A-A1854D0BB7CC_1_105_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="947" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIujbfQ6q96ue0fZwXeY7rhOr2KXAut36AU-DidDvGour8BRDzQanCih7b7TuYZoYDBdaZ_yyxkzG5yKc3I9kgxiU0EYa79eX6Mj_GEoqZAZjm4i5r5vH-Bvj5rfsnNh7jANKDjMnGU7ha3KURsEokIgi4cZGE6AtF3clis1JiNZS4AHx_QkAaCLom/s320/E3E0F5E3-8139-4EC2-B70A-A1854D0BB7CC_1_105_c.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Our guide for the exhibit was museum curator Melissa Yuen, who began by showing us a series of flat-woven wall hangings designed (but not woven) by Albers. The piece featured at the beginning of this blog post began with a screenprint on paper from the portfolio "Connections", created by Albers while studying at the Bauhaus in 1925. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The exhibit gives proof of her strengths in several media and techniques. Below is another wall hanging woven in 1984 according to a design by Albers.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkVaCD1qbH9_qWwlb-YvoWhcWRHjxxPQT9v1OnaPnUEz6VhNxshSVmAkSuHw8R2xbLZ1wj46so9989XvlshBrSsO5DUl8O17EwC8nLD-OwyGIzUCawuVpQ8xrbk9zVyguVUFwmaGaMJy0lhF6iZdu_N44gaJ4O885HE7egj81EJ8x6zTAFQnE49zWo/s906/5920E5B2-6D26-43A0-9F0C-C9309D575CEF_1_105_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="906" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkVaCD1qbH9_qWwlb-YvoWhcWRHjxxPQT9v1OnaPnUEz6VhNxshSVmAkSuHw8R2xbLZ1wj46so9989XvlshBrSsO5DUl8O17EwC8nLD-OwyGIzUCawuVpQ8xrbk9zVyguVUFwmaGaMJy0lhF6iZdu_N44gaJ4O885HE7egj81EJ8x6zTAFQnE49zWo/w400-h383/5920E5B2-6D26-43A0-9F0C-C9309D575CEF_1_105_c.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As most weavers know, Anni Albers is one of the great lights in weaving and textile design in the 20th century. What some may not know is that she was one of the first women ever -- and definitely the first textile artist ever -- to have a solo exhibition at MoMA in New York City, which took place in 1949. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The press release for the exhibit called her "one of the most imaginative and daring of modern weavers in the United States". Her ability to take textiles from the realm of utilitarian craft to abstract art was admired by 20th century artists like Philip Johnson and Jack Lenor Larsen -- as was her versatility. As Fritz Horstman writes in the exhibit brochure, "the exhibition highlights the nimbleness with which Albers moved between mediums, and her fluid transitions between creating artwork and designing more functional objects."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The show also provides evidence of her meticulous study and process, shown here in her diagrams of doubleweave structure. (I had to take the photo at an angle to avoid capturing the shadow of my iPhone.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5oTZklA-oceGsdUAnHf9o-gMWhmFAcfTeoKNrfiAW2iTJdtL9N78Uw3ZX5E_umO2gb5GD8MFrv1L8uROd_m_2J9PWS6qtlC1TyOA9ZCVA_vEwpNxk4STVlx2DsKl-0wOC8djdffIA96LgrSmG_OlDieYJRT7AyGL2u0M5pzxKorYflevYNgUENZuC/s1375/A781AA0D-E7C3-4D93-AEC0-FED43E123B4E_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1375" data-original-width="1187" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5oTZklA-oceGsdUAnHf9o-gMWhmFAcfTeoKNrfiAW2iTJdtL9N78Uw3ZX5E_umO2gb5GD8MFrv1L8uROd_m_2J9PWS6qtlC1TyOA9ZCVA_vEwpNxk4STVlx2DsKl-0wOC8djdffIA96LgrSmG_OlDieYJRT7AyGL2u0M5pzxKorYflevYNgUENZuC/w345-h400/A781AA0D-E7C3-4D93-AEC0-FED43E123B4E_1_201_a.jpeg" width="345" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">It is as if she was perpetually striving to understand "the stuff the world is made of" -- and the results continue to bring joy and inspiration to weavers everywhere. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZHEMLpna5onUyLW0_Sd4dkFKYWb--8b3Fq66ilSN8nQ0_59hnnKYBLWcpz9BSwBD6GtVfWoY9BQoM_KRiQVNpe29mREgbQxAzRcK92GAD0u7VolmYz5-Ffymqai5OVyQtDMiJ5HXy_oXvXCpY6x1SPeoV-402Ld0urcKjXMY1SoilvPWBfwqi-XiY/s1350/0F91B20D-DED5-41C2-8C81-10C7390B016D_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1310" data-original-width="1350" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZHEMLpna5onUyLW0_Sd4dkFKYWb--8b3Fq66ilSN8nQ0_59hnnKYBLWcpz9BSwBD6GtVfWoY9BQoM_KRiQVNpe29mREgbQxAzRcK92GAD0u7VolmYz5-Ffymqai5OVyQtDMiJ5HXy_oXvXCpY6x1SPeoV-402Ld0urcKjXMY1SoilvPWBfwqi-XiY/w400-h389/0F91B20D-DED5-41C2-8C81-10C7390B016D_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Red Lines on Blue" 1979</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-59682657173347921012022-11-14T14:52:00.000-05:002023-06-14T20:34:56.762-04:00Book Launch December 1!<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7VWju_FcnT6Kg2TyDj9509XdWjhKn38QA95beQnV17mfktNTZPLBlE1KknIi4C7ijR2h5uG5XZ3HQBu4f5c9EQetAq6MnZYqg5S2GlR3bW9iVyD2nSX3CCiRt4xziaf1RYYUT3pRmMvrfuWJCxbMfWCucggL4db7yuevz96w4kzWGJ4GHBeuAY38/s675/christening-shiplaunch.jpeg"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="675" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7VWju_FcnT6Kg2TyDj9509XdWjhKn38QA95beQnV17mfktNTZPLBlE1KknIi4C7ijR2h5uG5XZ3HQBu4f5c9EQetAq6MnZYqg5S2GlR3bW9iVyD2nSX3CCiRt4xziaf1RYYUT3pRmMvrfuWJCxbMfWCucggL4db7yuevz96w4kzWGJ4GHBeuAY38/w400-h315/christening-shiplaunch.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Well, close to December 1, anyway.<p></p><div>A few pointers I want to share with anyone who might be considering writing a book:</div><div><br /></div><div>1) First and foremost, do not EVER create your index before you've finished the book. If you make this mistake, as I did, understand that you're still revising and re-writing -- which means you'll be trapped in an endless loop of checking and re-checking your index-page numbers. </div><div><br /></div><div>2) Do not type on the keyboard while you are eating peanut butter. </div><div><br /></div><div>3) Do not ask your significant other to comment on the book. </div><div><br /></div><div>4) If you know any dogs, you can ask them to comment. If you know any cats, don't bother.</div><div><br /></div><div>5) DO ask your smartest friends to proofread the draft. This strengthens friendships and saves you from sending out reams of errata.</div><div><br /></div><div>6) Somewhere in the middle of the book-writing process, you will feel like you are writing <u>War and Peace</u>. Of course you aren't, but you will feel like that. </div><div><br /></div><div>7) It's OK to print it out and throw the pages against the wall. </div><div><br /></div><div>8) One serious comment: If you want to write a book, give yourself plenty of time, that is, a reasonable amount of years. And don't tell anyone until it's well under way ;o)</div><div><br /></div>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-44786837893576061982022-10-19T12:14:00.000-04:002022-10-19T12:14:22.775-04:00Coming December 1: My Book on Texture in Weaving<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHkI3GCXkctvego9X85ymcfJgtii57g156NUxefV-3SMLdxkXbQfviFiu-axbFwHtX6u8mU6HIVBQLD9yTRcgIDKbMWlltUFiLJh-cCdQGn76UJhgeCCDXwmkdKpSu66yTiSnVGNkIUOhwkWLiJ4rfB1iMketk16KUkMZAIgBMvNg-yur9QUQUJXg9/s2000/Blue%20Beach%20Photo%20Birthday%20Flyer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1294" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHkI3GCXkctvego9X85ymcfJgtii57g156NUxefV-3SMLdxkXbQfviFiu-axbFwHtX6u8mU6HIVBQLD9yTRcgIDKbMWlltUFiLJh-cCdQGn76UJhgeCCDXwmkdKpSu66yTiSnVGNkIUOhwkWLiJ4rfB1iMketk16KUkMZAIgBMvNg-yur9QUQUJXg9/w259-h400/Blue%20Beach%20Photo%20Birthday%20Flyer.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You're looking at the cover of my soon-to-be-published book on texture in weaving! I've been working on it for, lo, these past five years and it's almost ready for publication.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I plan to begin offering it on Lulu on December 1. And after that, I might celebrate with a good brew or two ;o)</div><p></p><p>Why did it take so long? Mainly because it includes 12 projects for 4, 8, 6, and 16 shafts, which meant I had to weave them all and document every single detail. And check and double check -- 80 versions and revisions to date, which isn't all that surprising. Plus, with some of the projects, there was much sampling involved, meaning lots of warps and dressing of looms until I got it right.</p><p>The title, "Weaving Outside the Box," has two meanings: first, I'm referring to creativity in design and process, "thinking out of the box" about what and how we weave. Second, I'm referring to the rectilinear, two-dimensional plane of weaving -- "the box" that we are typically confined to in our craft -- and how we can begin to break those boundaries. Textural weaving is all about ripples and pleats and buckles and poufs, about bends in the road and reflections on the organic curves of nature herself. Take, for instance, this image of lateral curves of fungi on a tree trunk:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPHRVo931tEDB8g5d_UZDvqsB3HQwKn2HijrCcW-P5Jv6Kve0iYX_KAYQNvA_WF3ZfaHvJPaifUevCECxJ0FH9O866Y54bpRFpDT2TiNKp6W-ITmeXZ1kqW7z3tH3CnbsHdy0g_SUA7YP8K6fN6EwLyUkGVHWqmkD5zMhSQr20oyk-_HNURxTDTKPK/s1567/IMG_4401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="1567" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPHRVo931tEDB8g5d_UZDvqsB3HQwKn2HijrCcW-P5Jv6Kve0iYX_KAYQNvA_WF3ZfaHvJPaifUevCECxJ0FH9O866Y54bpRFpDT2TiNKp6W-ITmeXZ1kqW7z3tH3CnbsHdy0g_SUA7YP8K6fN6EwLyUkGVHWqmkD5zMhSQr20oyk-_HNURxTDTKPK/w425-h162/IMG_4401.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><p>I see a reflection of these lines in a double-weave sample I wove on four shafts, in the style of Liz Williamson:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7HkdWSDpxjoFTMvdRxW6DvYf8s3rNWQlh0SuG4TTlXc10nrqkoZMDHxScMtTIQm8cveM9XtcLS5EuAyj_uaaIBzIMEQca1bEqD0Xyd6XFjktd1L5oTNtfWTxytLpBvfYdWgjB86ulJYQQE-KvovIvZl326NRQ2v2T9jI7mFFuuiK8eY1kqQPAJlJl/s848/4-shaft%20Double%20Weave,%20after%20Liz%20Williamson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="848" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7HkdWSDpxjoFTMvdRxW6DvYf8s3rNWQlh0SuG4TTlXc10nrqkoZMDHxScMtTIQm8cveM9XtcLS5EuAyj_uaaIBzIMEQca1bEqD0Xyd6XFjktd1L5oTNtfWTxytLpBvfYdWgjB86ulJYQQE-KvovIvZl326NRQ2v2T9jI7mFFuuiK8eY1kqQPAJlJl/w414-h213/4-shaft%20Double%20Weave,%20after%20Liz%20Williamson.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Different colors, of course, and less nuanced, but the two images share flowing horizontal lines, staggered randomly. I love the unpredictability of how the patterns shift and bend -- much of which takes place in the finishing. After washing these fabrics, the results are always surprising, which makes it so rewarding to me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The book is about 120 pages long, with 90 full-color photos and diagrams that aid in understanding the hows and whys of dimensional weaving. It includes a long bibliography to aid in further study, an index (to me that's a big deal, for some reason), and three beginning chapters on the theory of texture in weaving, its history, and some of the overriding techniques involved.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is a peek at some of the projects in the book.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip3bv--tB_T6I23m-uKQFUVPloV8MKfIuQxtyvYvzvXgyzLbrejH2lX0apWN2dE9lbxnZKNVm4pdQ8oArArzClfjw2SC81AMKox4jga2RxmLYN4r4-G2qTi82DecAxyYrKxOJrwLMG_snsOI17saAdzduxJWro-QERlhuReTdjUfFA0OMABc0wOm4q/s1138/F62DD2FA-B854-4730-AAFA-98A1D314292D_1_105_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1138" data-original-width="691" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip3bv--tB_T6I23m-uKQFUVPloV8MKfIuQxtyvYvzvXgyzLbrejH2lX0apWN2dE9lbxnZKNVm4pdQ8oArArzClfjw2SC81AMKox4jga2RxmLYN4r4-G2qTi82DecAxyYrKxOJrwLMG_snsOI17saAdzduxJWro-QERlhuReTdjUfFA0OMABc0wOm4q/w242-h400/F62DD2FA-B854-4730-AAFA-98A1D314292D_1_105_c.jpeg" width="242" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Antelope Canyon Shawl in point twill on 4 shafts, </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>16/2 bamboo gradient warp, silk/stainless-steel weft</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhINuVn867vdvl-q6wD1fLdzpFo_sVlM5LhGEcAFREdgQqBjqra3XBdwgmI07cPYFRSOrxWeXqUqByMB_4bj0BpEU_KHU_sGmdZRrm-Fw79S_dmpzterxMNWy7xN9KxGQz8nHmpMoAI-FQs3Jd5HaCpejTUVGeLMk6034SfocxJGiNJ3xiU2SIcKZMN/s1086/85EBD649-B250-4E63-94BF-4705C87A6E31_1_105_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1086" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhINuVn867vdvl-q6wD1fLdzpFo_sVlM5LhGEcAFREdgQqBjqra3XBdwgmI07cPYFRSOrxWeXqUqByMB_4bj0BpEU_KHU_sGmdZRrm-Fw79S_dmpzterxMNWy7xN9KxGQz8nHmpMoAI-FQs3Jd5HaCpejTUVGeLMk6034SfocxJGiNJ3xiU2SIcKZMN/w400-h266/85EBD649-B250-4E63-94BF-4705C87A6E31_1_105_c.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Detail of 'Puzzle Shawl' in deflected double weave </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>on 6 shafts, 18/2 merino in warp and weft</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwyMXaxpGVjNKRXIgu1_XEa1YxspaoZPfigaBbRWoExI-t2sBn8EGqMqq7wMiyEDxamKrxbtM6nvCjmhVN3xT3v_KZJZ_wlG3z0jkaprh_CKFixx0PiE8CJ8imozcUIC0aBFqjEKsKi0lKFlKzA48OIUXwlM5jQ6cZj5zFZSbEVheHvxJqnmD1bM3T/s3629/IMG_6426%203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3629" data-original-width="2576" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwyMXaxpGVjNKRXIgu1_XEa1YxspaoZPfigaBbRWoExI-t2sBn8EGqMqq7wMiyEDxamKrxbtM6nvCjmhVN3xT3v_KZJZ_wlG3z0jkaprh_CKFixx0PiE8CJ8imozcUIC0aBFqjEKsKi0lKFlKzA48OIUXwlM5jQ6cZj5zFZSbEVheHvxJqnmD1bM3T/w284-h400/IMG_6426%203.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>60/2 silk striped scarf in plain weave and turned twill </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>on 8 shafts, with soft pleats in the middle</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjia4SDq5T8BGPbcKMsM4N8k9iwgensFRb9coj7HdoO_7-VjpFqfjKMeuuI_pdNAVEeRev_5oeA3aVLX9VwE8rsCLyIFgmXjZrtMKXffRwOJVSARtw06Xq5RIkCM8m9XQTN0x6naxo27MiLF-S8g6LZDwQiexZOw6jN-0TrWhfm4BLsdiniVDv9Vrax/s2400/EC102F1C-DAC9-4D7C-9D4E-0D6CBF99EB4C_1_105_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="2271" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjia4SDq5T8BGPbcKMsM4N8k9iwgensFRb9coj7HdoO_7-VjpFqfjKMeuuI_pdNAVEeRev_5oeA3aVLX9VwE8rsCLyIFgmXjZrtMKXffRwOJVSARtw06Xq5RIkCM8m9XQTN0x6naxo27MiLF-S8g6LZDwQiexZOw6jN-0TrWhfm4BLsdiniVDv9Vrax/w379-h400/EC102F1C-DAC9-4D7C-9D4E-0D6CBF99EB4C_1_105_c.jpeg" width="379" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Deflected-double-weave infinity scarf on 16 shafts,</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>using hand-painted warps and wefts in 18/2 merino and 10/2 cotton</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Right now, the final draft of the book is with a group of first readers, in alphabetical order, Marianne Antczak, Leslie Mendelson, Ann Richards, Joyce Robards, Sarah Saulson, and Linda Schultz. All of them are wonderful weavers who have generously agreed to serve as fact-checkers and goalies, you might say, to keep any errors from appearing in print. It's good to have smart friends!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As I mentioned, I will offer the book on Lulu, a print-on-demand site used by several folks I know. I will also offer an e-version at a slightly lower cost (and no shipping charges, of course). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you're interested in pre-ordering, please click on the "Downloads for Purchase" section of this site, where you'll find a link. I will be in touch as soon as it ships on December 1.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Let me know if you have any questions, of course. My email address is in the "Contact Information" page on this blog. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for reading!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivEYJn-0DH8C85kxNM1BNf5_C8ULoF2O1mj1mZASDEypWGACDH12sg1ZX9aU__JH-eX2XoSdYWN7sVQb4R15sYdvXMQUdNccre14Wl-Ik8GYZIuyZcMVX3d52P-yYjJz82IJk54foriI_8rtDMaPpnHEFuRQ8hCCOERrajhnGzliyxeUV9YN9N12TS/s4075/Front%20and%20back%20cover%20for%20printing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="4075" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivEYJn-0DH8C85kxNM1BNf5_C8ULoF2O1mj1mZASDEypWGACDH12sg1ZX9aU__JH-eX2XoSdYWN7sVQb4R15sYdvXMQUdNccre14Wl-Ik8GYZIuyZcMVX3d52P-yYjJz82IJk54foriI_8rtDMaPpnHEFuRQ8hCCOERrajhnGzliyxeUV9YN9N12TS/s320/Front%20and%20back%20cover%20for%20printing.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Front and back covers, ready for printing</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-34160368170967844162022-09-18T15:34:00.004-04:002022-09-18T15:41:38.011-04:00What's on the Loom?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihgUMv8ta3SiE5Yi7cdvJN41EpzKqbL5JjXVquX00LAJCldkyH8-pwZos69UyAV9x8EwHmS0b0rYgQwiL996SEVKBPovS5x1_um7Lq6O2pqtvqmHsVbaW8Dl9a0MJHBF5kxwdET9c8rp9VH07RxzooVAiMN-CRkbzrReELGy6-eF-4mx5HmRqWxELB/s4607/The%20Earl%20on%2028%20as%20Decorated%20Jin%20tromp%20as%20writ.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="4607" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihgUMv8ta3SiE5Yi7cdvJN41EpzKqbL5JjXVquX00LAJCldkyH8-pwZos69UyAV9x8EwHmS0b0rYgQwiL996SEVKBPovS5x1_um7Lq6O2pqtvqmHsVbaW8Dl9a0MJHBF5kxwdET9c8rp9VH07RxzooVAiMN-CRkbzrReELGy6-eF-4mx5HmRqWxELB/w640-h293/The%20Earl%20on%2028%20as%20Decorated%20Jin%20tromp%20as%20writ.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>More accurately, what's <i>going</i> on the loom? At this writing, I'm in the process of winding on a painted warp for a Jin design on 28 shafts (one of the versions of the pattern is shown above). Here's where I am at the moment, looking at the back of the loom.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Zq3mRuImx24_fhqFlT_JgfQDG37aTWOpwJ8Va-pd2MFR9XI_cGjKPluUBiA7QnQIjwR8Q9dsGNlmSYbAa-c7lOq92ChJry2mdrfIMExOErLt-O8QPVLpkpLAq-FbDzCrQZyOTwR7VhjM90W3j0hPsTG_2-IJ0u17lwGF-CApCD_4-3-gMxZfvqH4/s2762/IMG_1830.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2762" data-original-width="2130" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Zq3mRuImx24_fhqFlT_JgfQDG37aTWOpwJ8Va-pd2MFR9XI_cGjKPluUBiA7QnQIjwR8Q9dsGNlmSYbAa-c7lOq92ChJry2mdrfIMExOErLt-O8QPVLpkpLAq-FbDzCrQZyOTwR7VhjM90W3j0hPsTG_2-IJ0u17lwGF-CApCD_4-3-gMxZfvqH4/w309-h400/IMG_1830.heic" width="309" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's kind of an unusual warp: Has anybody heard of 24/3 unmercerized cotton -- with about 1% of black rayon thrown in? Who knew? It was a big cone in natural that I picked up at a guild sale. Figuring that the grist of 24/3 cotton was equivalent or close to that of 16/2 cotton, I wound a warp two ends at a time, alternating between the 24/3 unmercerized cotton in natural and a 16/2 unmercerized cotton in black. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When I went to paint the warp, I painted the entire warp at once, natural and black together. The dye colors don't affect the black at all, so you get a two-color painted warp, effectively, that you can thread for Echo. I appreciate efficiencies like that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back to the design. I love broken twills (most of us do, right?), a category that includes the old German designs known as Gebrochene. I've posted on this subject before, looking at a 16th-century pattern affectionately named "The Earl." Margie Thompson, an expert on historic textiles, shared it with our guild in a talk some time ago, and she was kind enough to send me the original draft, which is for 14 shafts. (For more on "The Earl" and Gebrochene twills, see my blog post of November 17, 2020.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZsVT6bC3Zc9Lv2apoARMklW0uWpUQLWR0uTGaM82muFF73Y58200WxsZI1cMhQ-qnQ-GuBfDdBq0U_uHVs8gwQrHSeyS89_F0QrWsnDIdr1Yb0yRJuUQqVd4POCrhFGiXw604XNkjqx_t6hhK7uVOyQnOLVCXRSAd1AOiNGSDDjLfGTyUGgu3JKpO/s2423/The%20Earl%20on%2014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2423" data-original-width="2384" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZsVT6bC3Zc9Lv2apoARMklW0uWpUQLWR0uTGaM82muFF73Y58200WxsZI1cMhQ-qnQ-GuBfDdBq0U_uHVs8gwQrHSeyS89_F0QrWsnDIdr1Yb0yRJuUQqVd4POCrhFGiXw604XNkjqx_t6hhK7uVOyQnOLVCXRSAd1AOiNGSDDjLfGTyUGgu3JKpO/w394-h400/The%20Earl%20on%2014.jpg" width="394" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">How did I get from the elegant, almost filigreed 14-shaft design above to the more primitive, tribal-looking 28-shaft design at the beginning of this post? It's a technique that I teach in my parallel-threading classes, using an Ms and Ws twill as a design line for Echo. I start designing by uploading the original Earl drawdown for 14 shafts in Fiberworks. (You need Fiberworks Silver for these functions.) Then, you click on the "Warp" dropdown menu and next you click on "Parallel Repeat" to Echo the original design line with a second threading 14 shafts above it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Step 2: You see that the original Earl treadling is tromp as writ, for 14 treadles. This would work for a 28-shaft design, but it would give you squashed motifs, not very appealing. All I did (again, to achieve the design at the beginning of this post) was double the number of treadles for the entire treadling (so that treadle one becomes one and two, treadle two becomes three and four, treadle three becomes five and six, and so on). In other words, if the original treadling went from treadle 1 to 14 and down again in a point-twill pattern, I doubled the length of the pattern, so the treadles go from 1 to 28 and down again. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Step 3: Here's where it gets a bit more complicated. I started by designing Echo using a twill tieup for 28 shafts. This is what I got. Just a detail shot. I really don't like it at all.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxdZceiTWKnW9y0zCr2cy7BR-eAgaaHaCYFSgKeGMDUQE5r4HDYxAKz_qdeBr0NN5_MU9vdLpy9GqzIDJ4h19oybTp3qD2auaZvPzkz5xbT9dRgen7_gFRpzHXByocM4UTO9HA76C1pkA9r-oP2cn2_k0LddFYXJGgggx7PVOKndqxTcE93VRMYO_q/s3243/The%20Earl%20as%20Echo%20on%2028%20tromp%20as%20writ%20detail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2472" data-original-width="3243" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxdZceiTWKnW9y0zCr2cy7BR-eAgaaHaCYFSgKeGMDUQE5r4HDYxAKz_qdeBr0NN5_MU9vdLpy9GqzIDJ4h19oybTp3qD2auaZvPzkz5xbT9dRgen7_gFRpzHXByocM4UTO9HA76C1pkA9r-oP2cn2_k0LddFYXJGgggx7PVOKndqxTcE93VRMYO_q/w400-h305/The%20Earl%20as%20Echo%20on%2028%20tromp%20as%20writ%20detail.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What to do? As I like to say, "Keep Calm and Add Tabby."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKDAxevsL1N0Qe-OWPlDFgntd0PW-N5mzsjZK0p4aKZ3-ZcwqzjgrB64nwin9uHpweH5V-qokXjhnrmZRxzCMIiSybF4K7OCfs-FhSL1KXwbFuiUSj4AoVGz3Wmb3NLS4cHkznCiDnWnflhxAM3z_3J_roTVQKhoc4DwcFe1Hyu09S4c1GOkePfoj8/s1008/2EB5CF15-F001-4E22-B1DD-4EE4F4493DE7_1_105_c.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="779" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKDAxevsL1N0Qe-OWPlDFgntd0PW-N5mzsjZK0p4aKZ3-ZcwqzjgrB64nwin9uHpweH5V-qokXjhnrmZRxzCMIiSybF4K7OCfs-FhSL1KXwbFuiUSj4AoVGz3Wmb3NLS4cHkznCiDnWnflhxAM3z_3J_roTVQKhoc4DwcFe1Hyu09S4c1GOkePfoj8/w309-h400/2EB5CF15-F001-4E22-B1DD-4EE4F4493DE7_1_105_c.jpeg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of course, Echo has its charms -- but Jin also has a lot going for it: nice drape, one-shuttle weave, floats never longer than 3 in warp or weft, clear pattern definition, the ability to stretch out "squashed" designs, and the potential to play with the tieup to add a bit more color and interest, without risking long floats. That's what you see in the drawdown at the top of this post -- and also in the design below which uses another treadling but a similar tieup. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Da9vXnX18uLrTgPvkqtnJsioz3VIsfI_S2A8U75kkusF1h1F21Uf0jIBfjIY8jwBsls7WVkr2Toi-oHItrMhpBQjWC9dewZGmPN3U2SUWCwPpPbUMEe-8X11iOujyBti21PAWVMqFUSHxS4WlLuMv4uWum80gkivtuA7xPCKhmzP-VYGh3S-mG26/s2384/The%20Earl%20on%2028%20as%20decorated%20Jin.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1287" data-original-width="2384" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Da9vXnX18uLrTgPvkqtnJsioz3VIsfI_S2A8U75kkusF1h1F21Uf0jIBfjIY8jwBsls7WVkr2Toi-oHItrMhpBQjWC9dewZGmPN3U2SUWCwPpPbUMEe-8X11iOujyBti21PAWVMqFUSHxS4WlLuMv4uWum80gkivtuA7xPCKhmzP-VYGh3S-mG26/w640-h346/The%20Earl%20on%2028%20as%20decorated%20Jin.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I like both designs, the one above and the one at the beginning of this post. What they share are tieups for what Bonnie Inouye calls "Decorated Jin." Below is what a classic Jin tieup looks like, with half the shafts raised and half down in an ascending-twill pattern, with tabby tiedowns in between:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkFxxcCE4nLcMp9KZu90QvCzF7rhMI7OxgumAgK86dVLJ0X4xBLG_JFQFVFBlgXphXrVshZROnUv8OiVuS_2xwuPgzyTnMrQHATQ9uQzaW57XD_ya2VduBQNJ7Dikm_8nv9DuyWqPD78iiMzFL6DTB6SlT5hMmtGdeO9YSRfMatLITQJsOW_5cs9K0/s3192/The%20Earl%20as%20regular%20Jin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2465" data-original-width="3192" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkFxxcCE4nLcMp9KZu90QvCzF7rhMI7OxgumAgK86dVLJ0X4xBLG_JFQFVFBlgXphXrVshZROnUv8OiVuS_2xwuPgzyTnMrQHATQ9uQzaW57XD_ya2VduBQNJ7Dikm_8nv9DuyWqPD78iiMzFL6DTB6SlT5hMmtGdeO9YSRfMatLITQJsOW_5cs9K0/w400-h309/The%20Earl%20as%20regular%20Jin.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You'll see that the motifs above are simple and distinct, basically two colors, light and dark. This drawdown shows only a detail so that you can see the tieup more easily. Now let's look at a tieup for Decorated Jin.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0kqKP3618NXFbQsaBD1gCIHlIHo3QQC40B6lZQnqq1RB0lol_JTM0IxZBBoBcdUKJS4NDfGqvFlNN1QoAoZfPw8sQbOb45NBWLTPP-taTBQ0wLun3aRax4vrROH4ghRlPif4Bmt5rjttdUShl2FsbTD1wUotcU9fhs9iEbVhaXzFwdUaRQCz6vYm/s3159/Decorated%20Jin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2437" data-original-width="3159" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0kqKP3618NXFbQsaBD1gCIHlIHo3QQC40B6lZQnqq1RB0lol_JTM0IxZBBoBcdUKJS4NDfGqvFlNN1QoAoZfPw8sQbOb45NBWLTPP-taTBQ0wLun3aRax4vrROH4ghRlPif4Bmt5rjttdUShl2FsbTD1wUotcU9fhs9iEbVhaXzFwdUaRQCz6vYm/w400-h309/Decorated%20Jin.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Here, there are different colors and the motifs have more interest. The difference is that I've broken up the 14 up/14 down ascending-twill tieup, adding a bit of plain weave. Now, I see four different shades: pale blue, medium blue, dark rust/blue, and royal blue. It's all in the details! <div><br /></div><div>I'm going to sample at least two Decorated Jin designs and, fingers crossed, find at least one I really like. But first, of course, I have to finish dressing my loom....</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks for reading!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p></div>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-82440595107635987582022-08-24T17:26:00.002-04:002022-08-25T10:03:20.262-04:00Summer Is the Time to Play... with Yarn<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTzQGuMAYno5_jeQW4VqNpr-SQeNdTVuYc4koX76EUnaoyCDZZGgoTE-anIY067XNBX386I-yiS0i5psO3A1L8Iqeey1RZmhbc-sw5_qtTygotKQA-ziIHe82Y9LQbFSO4CfPwzNTsYszjI0L--su7b9S7qzwHrYcscQm97cMs378eAOmqlhoiItHi/s2964/591B77D2-1207-4DF8-BE49-FA6C723401FC_1_201_a.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1648" data-original-width="2964" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTzQGuMAYno5_jeQW4VqNpr-SQeNdTVuYc4koX76EUnaoyCDZZGgoTE-anIY067XNBX386I-yiS0i5psO3A1L8Iqeey1RZmhbc-sw5_qtTygotKQA-ziIHe82Y9LQbFSO4CfPwzNTsYszjI0L--su7b9S7qzwHrYcscQm97cMs378eAOmqlhoiItHi/w400-h223/591B77D2-1207-4DF8-BE49-FA6C723401FC_1_201_a.heic" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A friend of the late, great <a href="https://redlandsspinnersandweavers.wordpress.com/kay-faulkner-weaving-school/" target="_blank">Kay Faulkner</a> remembered how Kay would phone her and begin with the words, "I've been playing...."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My reaction was, if that's "playing," then I need to do more! But seriously: Creativity and play are related, if not joined at the hip. Allowing our mind to roam when we're making something -- or even walking away from the work altogether -- lets our imagination roam, without pressure. Taking a shower, going to sleep, daydreaming, lolling about in bed as we wake up -- or playing the violin, in the case of Einstein and the Theory of Relativity -- gives our subconscious the time and space to explore.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So I've been playing, as you can see in the photo above. The structure is four-color double weave, with 16/2 bamboo for the two warps and one of the wefts and 28-gauge wire as the other weft. It was definitely tough to weave with (and my selvages show it), but I think there's an idea in there. What if I wove yardage like this? Could it be a sculpture? Or what if I used wire in random picks in the weft, as <a href="https://lizwilliamson.com.au/about" target="_blank">Liz Williamson</a> has done with her dimensional scarves and shawls? What if? Why not?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Maybe my subconscious can work on that. I'll let the weaving goddesses make the decisions. (Some days they're with me, some days they're not.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I wove this sample en route to weaving a garment on the same warp, one that I hope becomes a dress or a mantle of some kind. But instead of using wire as one of the wefts, I used <a href="https://lunaticfringeyarns.com/product/linen-crepe-yarn-gevolveyarns/" target="_blank">Gevolve S-twist linen crepe</a> from Lunatic Fringe Yarns. Using this in double weave that has pockets (as <a href="https://weefschool.nl/" target="_blank">Marian Stubenitsky</a> describes the separate layers you sometimes find in four-color double weave), it crimps the fabric up nicely, creating a kind of natural stretch in the bodice, with no darts necessary. And if you switch out the active weft for an inactive weft (in this case, so that all the yarns are 16/2 bamboo), you can achieve gentle ruffles where the textured fabric meets the flat fabric.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a photo.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Proyeai4DZz4vQfEmRFfpB7kbMy3YMiP3lVxGd-YyRqCgZgMs38GORNDoG9snz811R61qoMrV6lfHj-uFsYChmPoGgA2cR9_XB00HGrbM8nKO3h1whj-P_UiRVeW6Um2KyQYcEtlI2Lu_FKyX_8QhS2p_x20uMFioMFiW3qh2sZXeWNwgWC_4eFm/s3500/51186E57-E418-49F5-BC68-214ED36AEA3E_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3500" data-original-width="2254" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Proyeai4DZz4vQfEmRFfpB7kbMy3YMiP3lVxGd-YyRqCgZgMs38GORNDoG9snz811R61qoMrV6lfHj-uFsYChmPoGgA2cR9_XB00HGrbM8nKO3h1whj-P_UiRVeW6Um2KyQYcEtlI2Lu_FKyX_8QhS2p_x20uMFioMFiW3qh2sZXeWNwgWC_4eFm/w258-h400/51186E57-E418-49F5-BC68-214ED36AEA3E_1_201_a.jpeg" width="258" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And here's a detail.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0cBkw12dLbkFDXWkn02pBOWbx-dMDCo4X5I2bUbxHTsBkaQmmGICRAzD9vsoyhw3V7qcoF1CQKPkxFIt5aBrnlR7SlbVy_3bs15Z1ZhFOhwe16dUOqDeIuIQdcr2_7fkbs4-AYhzLoJ5DlAczSg77gfA5ytVOAjzZaQOSwJWiCEyDrdvL6AFjgENi/s3888/83593CAF-B9C8-4333-B842-AEFED13720ED_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="2592" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0cBkw12dLbkFDXWkn02pBOWbx-dMDCo4X5I2bUbxHTsBkaQmmGICRAzD9vsoyhw3V7qcoF1CQKPkxFIt5aBrnlR7SlbVy_3bs15Z1ZhFOhwe16dUOqDeIuIQdcr2_7fkbs4-AYhzLoJ5DlAczSg77gfA5ytVOAjzZaQOSwJWiCEyDrdvL6AFjgENi/w266-h400/83593CAF-B9C8-4333-B842-AEFED13720ED_1_201_a.jpeg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally, this is what the fabric looked like before washing, which allows the overtwist linen to draw the fabric in, creating vertical pleating on the opposite layer (that's woven with the inactive 16/bamboo in both warp and weft).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsn-znVWBAVkcMkVg45jUoPnZUHLgy6j_-tUuEHYGuMdwJIpzBKn_a-fGbEJAgbaI_sbJzRYehuzQZceQC2xDMIeCe-5hlhJLIAQVtxHhnyO1ylUgpqBBfvkxKLikQPENsfcHOPvwDVN6tVtHbJcbx_XYPl71T-AgCVdf-ifrZGILbv3Mf6H1iHsuY/s3871/C8C90681-AECF-42CE-8ECD-98E42F7E30D4_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2497" data-original-width="3871" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsn-znVWBAVkcMkVg45jUoPnZUHLgy6j_-tUuEHYGuMdwJIpzBKn_a-fGbEJAgbaI_sbJzRYehuzQZceQC2xDMIeCe-5hlhJLIAQVtxHhnyO1ylUgpqBBfvkxKLikQPENsfcHOPvwDVN6tVtHbJcbx_XYPl71T-AgCVdf-ifrZGILbv3Mf6H1iHsuY/w400-h258/C8C90681-AECF-42CE-8ECD-98E42F7E30D4_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That dress would certainly work for someone more slender than I but maybe I could put gores in the side seams of the skirt... or maybe it's for an exhibit or a fashion show.... I'll just keep playing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've been messing about with beads also, ever since my friend Deborah Pope taught me how to make fabric beads.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJybwZrvlqnnYhOXVEdVFTWFnIpeUyO9USiWW2T4xuqN6-ecIZlrjNoWdzKmAp1fAI2Hy4L-zgdJkZJYkxi8eE5zF09bQ1taIt6kuW3XpGlpBThvj9EUYxPE3m2ql8UyXKqZYOrwGEvB-PZjoIzUrkNgUuO6nwEh2f6X3uc_AZRDKcY_rYeEEDRUTY/s3798/IMG_1751.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3798" data-original-width="1902" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJybwZrvlqnnYhOXVEdVFTWFnIpeUyO9USiWW2T4xuqN6-ecIZlrjNoWdzKmAp1fAI2Hy4L-zgdJkZJYkxi8eE5zF09bQ1taIt6kuW3XpGlpBThvj9EUYxPE3m2ql8UyXKqZYOrwGEvB-PZjoIzUrkNgUuO6nwEh2f6X3uc_AZRDKcY_rYeEEDRUTY/w200-h400/IMG_1751.heic" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Not exactly sure what they're going to become; most likely a bracelet. I used to think that any finished project, however humble, is infinitely better than any unfinished piece, however beautiful. Now I'm not so sure. What's wrong with an unfinished work, with finding out that you don't want to follow that trail anymore?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Questions to ponder. Thanks for reading!</div><p></p>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-587372434476861292022-07-20T12:04:00.005-04:002022-07-20T12:17:17.624-04:00Convergence 2022 in Knoxville: I Stayed Home -- But My Garments Were There!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIi38BoF7EUqCWPr4CVYB49hLDpytIdugf-Go7JmzV_ouCj7rehGBEbtBVEyilpUzJ2VLMI4fop-2OuC83R-GrcUniDb5aw8gGUi2HOS60vIImcJAbp3PCv2cIJ1gZXu_ISbN_A_LM3MyDdxRQvtkEGZo_q6ptbfQ-Mw3g_pmE4DzcltgKNzEMzwP2/s6720/_12A8110.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6720" data-original-width="4480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIi38BoF7EUqCWPr4CVYB49hLDpytIdugf-Go7JmzV_ouCj7rehGBEbtBVEyilpUzJ2VLMI4fop-2OuC83R-GrcUniDb5aw8gGUi2HOS60vIImcJAbp3PCv2cIJ1gZXu_ISbN_A_LM3MyDdxRQvtkEGZo_q6ptbfQ-Mw3g_pmE4DzcltgKNzEMzwP2/w266-h400/_12A8110.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i> Tabard for a Gentle Knight</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0vfSCxLWgGFf1YfDRqymanch1Rbs8t8flna9AIa8c8WohwKiu_jZhjqesUDwaJCKNIHCAebQur1-TbAJBcdmfbqd9dckTKtsEY7DdkehwYl-rLY-qLC9wyWYlKTXpgzYu9ZLgVGEwfWOIPDEaMzFnp3_5KCcDf0mxqyVbjjg4RDJpoU0jncx3m7_N/s6388/_12A8105.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4258" data-original-width="6388" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0vfSCxLWgGFf1YfDRqymanch1Rbs8t8flna9AIa8c8WohwKiu_jZhjqesUDwaJCKNIHCAebQur1-TbAJBcdmfbqd9dckTKtsEY7DdkehwYl-rLY-qLC9wyWYlKTXpgzYu9ZLgVGEwfWOIPDEaMzFnp3_5KCcDf0mxqyVbjjg4RDJpoU0jncx3m7_N/w400-h266/_12A8105.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Detail: 24-shaft 4-color double weave on an Echo threading</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisfzx0yUzmIQ43FrK31rD_ScMYPPDJFkMIb0whjTi4caoiXGvQQDapHQfLsGRILoB5Za9W8Up-rRmMIveYlzSMpfi6VFDXIJau1TM-QXFKYHx1cai04YgEN8x9UBBOiwqp4VgpQjZiLtjHpev868iAheVNoxJUBi61HQ5OwREqQt5v04ZVtr8J4YqC/s6212/_12A8118.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6212" data-original-width="4141" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisfzx0yUzmIQ43FrK31rD_ScMYPPDJFkMIb0whjTi4caoiXGvQQDapHQfLsGRILoB5Za9W8Up-rRmMIveYlzSMpfi6VFDXIJau1TM-QXFKYHx1cai04YgEN8x9UBBOiwqp4VgpQjZiLtjHpev868iAheVNoxJUBi61HQ5OwREqQt5v04ZVtr8J4YqC/w266-h400/_12A8118.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Tabard for a Covid Warrior, 16 shaft double-weave, all natural dyes</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">My husband and I were all packed, just double checking everything before we headed for Knoxville, when he took one final rapid test for Covid. He was feeling pretty good, a little congested, nothing much, but he conscientiously took the test.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"I'm positive."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">OK, all right, let's figure this out. (You kind of start talking to yourself when stuff like this happens.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"What to do?" </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"Not much, because we're staying here." </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"First, we unpack." </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"No, I don't want to." </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So I didn't unpack my teaching supplies and samples and notebooks, because I hoped that, by Zoom and the grace of technology, the show could go on. I was going to give a seminar at Complex Weavers (my first, on how to weave collapse fabrics) and then give a 3-hour workshop on Dorset Buttons at Convergence. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Quick pivot to Zoom presentations, which called for shipping a big box of materials, to be received by my intern, an MFA student at the University of New Mexico, Rosalba Breazale. She deserves a round of applause for all the work she did, way above and beyond what she signed on for! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And how about a projector? Giovanna Imperia, a wonderful weaver and friend, came through by lending me her projector for both Complex Weavers and Convergence. The work got done, somehow....</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here's a look at some of the Dorset Buttons in progress at our Zoom workshop, "Beaded Dorset Buttons":</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3cgnMQU-9Qeq3DuKQVSUZxhqGvvf0_he6XpKxhBJVXwDkubKz7PQQ8OS0AJC5mda2OepTS-eWkXqLDiG_KWcC6GtTbtMKxRujJz2Q3CLL_7YbUMD4h2UPrqIoCCOJ_vJyor6dyPph2SxBLIo8DIe8CH-1uI8bjECKao6uJmpWVJTbRmzKd_lup3nD/s1800/Dorset%20Buttons.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3cgnMQU-9Qeq3DuKQVSUZxhqGvvf0_he6XpKxhBJVXwDkubKz7PQQ8OS0AJC5mda2OepTS-eWkXqLDiG_KWcC6GtTbtMKxRujJz2Q3CLL_7YbUMD4h2UPrqIoCCOJ_vJyor6dyPph2SxBLIo8DIe8CH-1uI8bjECKao6uJmpWVJTbRmzKd_lup3nD/w640-h426/Dorset%20Buttons.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Top to bottom, on the left: Lyna Rizer and Joan Beebe; center: Rebecca Voris, Elizabeth Keller, and Jackie Heller; on the right: Brenda Osborn and Penny Morgan</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Most important, my husband feels great; I continue to test negative; my 94-year-old Mom tests negative. My son and daughter-in-law-to-be both have mild cases and they seem to be doing well. You know how the story goes!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Still, I really wanted to see my garments on the runway at the Convergence fashion show, "Seasons of the Smokies." My good friend, Mimi Anderson, took this video of my piece, "Tabard for a Gentle Knight," which was fun to watch.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mmGHJUSfWZM" width="320" youtube-src-id="mmGHJUSfWZM"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Hard to see, but this is the garment in the first photo of this blog post.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The conference went well, as far as I can tell from reading about it on Facebook and talking with friends, but I think that the pandemic still played a role in keeping folks away and even, in my case and that of one or two others, changing the way courses were run or cancelling them altogether. I think I appreciate even more how wonderful it is to gather with friends and talk about our favorite subject.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Until then, take care.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKwzFXgJlG9PSUnzwbcvSjL9K_pQhVeJI-Lq7vs-idkOmvETjEQM_jNIxPc1WpMHQqolc-ldihS4cnL6jJxW0D9Sn-Z7AXPwQ-sqf4EwG5Rosf5AZvj6xYgxgZBrF0znOz27DnLHnP4D76t_8x89aZgIthl7HqQpUy1FgBaD_5IQcj7N8IcLi2p3c/s6720/_12A8120.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4480" data-original-width="6720" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKwzFXgJlG9PSUnzwbcvSjL9K_pQhVeJI-Lq7vs-idkOmvETjEQM_jNIxPc1WpMHQqolc-ldihS4cnL6jJxW0D9Sn-Z7AXPwQ-sqf4EwG5Rosf5AZvj6xYgxgZBrF0znOz27DnLHnP4D76t_8x89aZgIthl7HqQpUy1FgBaD_5IQcj7N8IcLi2p3c/w400-h266/_12A8120.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for reading!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-80305312860145592052022-06-22T15:12:00.002-04:002022-06-23T09:14:36.662-04:00Weaving on the Curve in 20/2 cotton<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuILyV6cu2wu4xDj2fNpG6bEXWmhrqCL98ezgFWOk08YsicJy3vl80dk9DXfTcGAmEcjdQJandKnT3J7UU4HamP539QB8RU7_5lOwCOrA-mFNovF_L3k0yNAVueVVlEJK49WFZbj8T1_zKgRyo_qcw7tUJRI1CVhBOwQtPlkB2BIhIGBaMtBPOmbQi/s3238/1537A881-1A8C-4D62-95AE-AF46066B1A57_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3238" data-original-width="2507" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuILyV6cu2wu4xDj2fNpG6bEXWmhrqCL98ezgFWOk08YsicJy3vl80dk9DXfTcGAmEcjdQJandKnT3J7UU4HamP539QB8RU7_5lOwCOrA-mFNovF_L3k0yNAVueVVlEJK49WFZbj8T1_zKgRyo_qcw7tUJRI1CVhBOwQtPlkB2BIhIGBaMtBPOmbQi/w315-h406/1537A881-1A8C-4D62-95AE-AF46066B1A57_1_201_a.jpeg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Sampling on 16 shafts with different wefts (top to bottom): </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>S-twist linen crepe, Z-twist silk crepe, 60/2 spun silk</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEL_d4iSzrZopgJ8DpKZQkwbcZULgpNB3uwT4E6QlHsITwiA9qLZya8HgvyrB5QYha4I6KvC4HuRlo0zS2pl5YhGXsYwMvbXj9JTB_JGv6HBBVQYorm60ij7MW8Qc6gH-FITtswaslIQamOmkiND6IjeDB40USn2VuqONojhVff-KLxnSnj-ngI9e/s3127/E9CDDF9E-5791-4D2C-9206-F677AD7BD49F_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3127" data-original-width="2509" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyEL_d4iSzrZopgJ8DpKZQkwbcZULgpNB3uwT4E6QlHsITwiA9qLZya8HgvyrB5QYha4I6KvC4HuRlo0zS2pl5YhGXsYwMvbXj9JTB_JGv6HBBVQYorm60ij7MW8Qc6gH-FITtswaslIQamOmkiND6IjeDB40USn2VuqONojhVff-KLxnSnj-ngI9e/w321-h400/E9CDDF9E-5791-4D2C-9206-F677AD7BD49F_1_201_a.jpeg" width="321" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>16-shaft sample with 60/2 silk weft after washing (and coaxing the pleats to curve)</i></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1FSTlgnDuC3vfIU1x3vZEpMI3MBK8bYI_05Zy4VrPodEddHZBmT9BWw5mr7hb0Z-wRCLnGxt3Ei_sEhWQprNVAMFsMtnPxfvh61MEIA9Jo7NTrUqNghw382p4tB7O6AZA4qbBFp-qNFW_XEHtlfG8fua_1d5-50n8zom9SskUpLYJFFoLlYIJZBfJ/s3447/EF843237-113C-4546-BEE9-E8EE0527049F_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1857" data-original-width="3447" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1FSTlgnDuC3vfIU1x3vZEpMI3MBK8bYI_05Zy4VrPodEddHZBmT9BWw5mr7hb0Z-wRCLnGxt3Ei_sEhWQprNVAMFsMtnPxfvh61MEIA9Jo7NTrUqNghw382p4tB7O6AZA4qbBFp-qNFW_XEHtlfG8fua_1d5-50n8zom9SskUpLYJFFoLlYIJZBfJ/s320/EF843237-113C-4546-BEE9-E8EE0527049F_1_201_a.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Same sample with pleats before washing</i></div><p>Take note: I wove these samples on the end of a black-and-white warp that was left over from another project. Really, I was just curious about how to weave curving pleats. No way would I use black and white yarns if I were weaving this for a garment! </p><p>Anyhow, I'll get to the point. As we all know from that inspiring book, <u><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fabrics-That-Go-Bump-Weavers/dp/1893762114" target="_blank">Fabrics That Go Bump</a></u>, when you weave a turned twill on 8 shafts or more, you can create vertical pleats. The secret lies mainly in the structure, which is basically a turned twill that alternates between weft-emphasis and warp-emphasis blocks.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9R9TKv_uMLnhwK4JLuwGHrrWftHDl4iqzU3mKD9PsvEXOAVWF_mLImkQlvsiAUE3LcsbjpIJJOlSewNbVZAp9GJR-jB899CRj3Ny6XP5--EIO3MIQT9hpmxHMB6GRFiGaPa7Y4AKRxwdFD05qcdRikpFQDcN1rHn8dFMYjNvjsdMj1vFbaonf15tU/s3132/506E16EB-18CC-4E3C-8761-1DF19097C98B_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3132" data-original-width="2592" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9R9TKv_uMLnhwK4JLuwGHrrWftHDl4iqzU3mKD9PsvEXOAVWF_mLImkQlvsiAUE3LcsbjpIJJOlSewNbVZAp9GJR-jB899CRj3Ny6XP5--EIO3MIQT9hpmxHMB6GRFiGaPa7Y4AKRxwdFD05qcdRikpFQDcN1rHn8dFMYjNvjsdMj1vFbaonf15tU/s320/506E16EB-18CC-4E3C-8761-1DF19097C98B_1_201_a.jpeg" width="265" /></a></div><p>Here's a look at a design from this book by the late, great <a href="https://woolery.com/weaving-on-3-shafts.html" target="_blank">Erica de Ruiter</a>. I found it inspiring.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMcOtPjjGSdhusp2CR__aOHmeA2RNEFhFRnN041DBo9GmHhkxwdWAFROv6Cr01pHwesILaMGCcdWToYgPj1ooQnhMIdKsAElh4om0HYYZNdAh_OMfAcoKpXgKP0Ml1GS4Cjnr-NSRkNljOWDoGbO2GSEqLa12nZWYrNRoLWyqoTwwQcEh7XRBPwNS/s3396/F9BED391-9DF5-45AC-ADE2-61E62AC165A0_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2144" data-original-width="3396" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMcOtPjjGSdhusp2CR__aOHmeA2RNEFhFRnN041DBo9GmHhkxwdWAFROv6Cr01pHwesILaMGCcdWToYgPj1ooQnhMIdKsAElh4om0HYYZNdAh_OMfAcoKpXgKP0Ml1GS4Cjnr-NSRkNljOWDoGbO2GSEqLa12nZWYrNRoLWyqoTwwQcEh7XRBPwNS/w640-h405/F9BED391-9DF5-45AC-ADE2-61E62AC165A0_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>De Ruiter designed her treadling in the liftplan, which looks like this.<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwbETgpfnycMtgJzCZuVXK1VgCuMvvQjPojlzTJObntF8Z7Y5q_DquK7KZloIySMpL5tgPMORlYqY2VwcEFoWOj3tkadUjOvaQw69jaYbCqrhrBeuneCFg8fgxWLA_EuJpyFw-3834JyDervyrn2gThwXMRwizQ0UU2oR2t5nmi_HehzJyDnnDysSl/s2673/De%20Ruiter%20draft.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2673" data-original-width="2027" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwbETgpfnycMtgJzCZuVXK1VgCuMvvQjPojlzTJObntF8Z7Y5q_DquK7KZloIySMpL5tgPMORlYqY2VwcEFoWOj3tkadUjOvaQw69jaYbCqrhrBeuneCFg8fgxWLA_EuJpyFw-3834JyDervyrn2gThwXMRwizQ0UU2oR2t5nmi_HehzJyDnnDysSl/w318-h418/De%20Ruiter%20draft.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I think it's ingenious -- but I decided to use a networked curve instead, which looks like this in the liftplan.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRpyk6EB4VGGhOwCTGDaF-hjJLOe6g7L1T6EWOj7qMdy7FgOn7i_5c4Xkkh_8WXZS1In3A4f3nyTpbVNYcxG1y2mc-Cw_0durE_OxFfnBwik_o-Qt-FewLVSrsvivBGCam8MUkN1S3WQ2j9vS77g9r9-OnpEbrIyrVrpwjegzDK8oPfN4Hhebjj0p/s3207/Kovnat%20liftplan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3207" data-original-width="2443" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRpyk6EB4VGGhOwCTGDaF-hjJLOe6g7L1T6EWOj7qMdy7FgOn7i_5c4Xkkh_8WXZS1In3A4f3nyTpbVNYcxG1y2mc-Cw_0durE_OxFfnBwik_o-Qt-FewLVSrsvivBGCam8MUkN1S3WQ2j9vS77g9r9-OnpEbrIyrVrpwjegzDK8oPfN4Hhebjj0p/w488-h640/Kovnat%20liftplan.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Truthfully, I think de Ruiter's design is better, as there are more warp floats per pleat. But why compare? The important factor is that both designs allow for floats of three in the warp yarns alternating with floats of three in the weft yarns.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">How does this structure create pleats? It's the mechanics of how yarns relax after washing, really. The weft floats (in white on both drafts) relax and draw in, creating a concave shape, pulling on the warp floats on the other side (which are vertical, so they align vertically, sort of like Venetian blinds folding up on themselves, and create convex pleats).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The ratio of grists -- warp vs. weft -- can help with this effect, in my experience. In my sample at the beginning of this post, the warp is 20/2 cotton threaded in black and white at 8,400 yards/pound, while the weft at the bottom of the photo is 60/2 silk in black at 14,800 yards per pound. So the ratio in grist of warp to weft is about 5:3. I prefer a ratio of about 2:1, but I didn't have any other yarns in my stash. (You know how that goes.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another way to achieve pleats is to use the same design (warp floats alternating with weft floats) with an "energized" or "active" weft, such as crepe or overtwist or elasticized yarn. First, I tried an S-twist linen crepe from <a href="https://lunaticfringeyarns.com/" target="_blank">Lunatic Fringe</a>. (You'll see this sample, vaguely, at the top of the photo at the beginning of this post.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSyebFQwy07eTmt3m7FPTq9v9jyiTlYwIjxBjXfFtWrWOuIAo3KbC02W7_MiFMs7Kj8B3MBB653AsigYvjpP2qR59-mWj6TWCIeHTxN0tjERbBDDmTQIs2UkU60rDcd5qINF2YkhSyGxooiV_yOd4Fco9MKGNQvO2-zpTXsCTd0glbi5gLl25FgtQg/s3888/AF037517-1CBE-4A2A-BE3D-FE34DE7C9701.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="2592" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSyebFQwy07eTmt3m7FPTq9v9jyiTlYwIjxBjXfFtWrWOuIAo3KbC02W7_MiFMs7Kj8B3MBB653AsigYvjpP2qR59-mWj6TWCIeHTxN0tjERbBDDmTQIs2UkU60rDcd5qINF2YkhSyGxooiV_yOd4Fco9MKGNQvO2-zpTXsCTd0glbi5gLl25FgtQg/s320/AF037517-1CBE-4A2A-BE3D-FE34DE7C9701.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://lunaticfringeyarns.com/product-category/yarn/active/" target="_blank">Gevolve Yarns</a> linen crepe in S-twist at 10,400 yards/pound</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The sample is definitely textured and pleated, but you can't see curves at all.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzQOVhM3YOuNO8kSubGfzYTZAM9zF5_Lm3iE-YiPEiO5wHNq1_Q0CSzqEkvWFCAnvW28tkbY_HOEFRINd9B2j78__8hOh4y_dSPVhRrnMKqnegbaxcjyLIJBHc1eK61nECmS7FU2ygF-BCwsr9OiUPPDg_gc3gMoOhtklxVyHFSrsdGXHVMrtP7GlG/s2763/D34F5C49-3C8B-47B3-B8C7-EFA4AD447EAF_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2417" data-original-width="2763" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzQOVhM3YOuNO8kSubGfzYTZAM9zF5_Lm3iE-YiPEiO5wHNq1_Q0CSzqEkvWFCAnvW28tkbY_HOEFRINd9B2j78__8hOh4y_dSPVhRrnMKqnegbaxcjyLIJBHc1eK61nECmS7FU2ygF-BCwsr9OiUPPDg_gc3gMoOhtklxVyHFSrsdGXHVMrtP7GlG/s320/D34F5C49-3C8B-47B3-B8C7-EFA4AD447EAF_1_201_a.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I don't really have a theory on this, other than that the yarn draws the warp in so much that the curves are lost because they are too subtle.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The same thing happened when I tried silk-crepe yarn from <a href="https://www.habutextiles.com/" target="_blank">Habu</a>, a Z-twist gossamer-weight yarn that's about 33,000 yards/pound (and not at all fun to wind on a pirn, because it's constantly plying backwards on itself). The photo at the beginning of this post shows this sample in the middle of the fabric.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8UbYZxTPHe9zNmUDX1iNb_b2VvX_r7hYPRhf574CDKxCSr_cdCrTfSdwNvoL_ghW7s71gbHACJXJZa3A6arJadIkFuO-ri_ZEI4T9npjB8D6kCDDhaaz9K1IO_fekaHHFziaUx8XFEw6zAbCepwvsoYVnRf-nowR5tsRib0qjJlhBrMCQGDzljxcy/s3888/472721A2-F3BB-44E9-B2C4-10CC97C566C7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3888" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8UbYZxTPHe9zNmUDX1iNb_b2VvX_r7hYPRhf574CDKxCSr_cdCrTfSdwNvoL_ghW7s71gbHACJXJZa3A6arJadIkFuO-ri_ZEI4T9npjB8D6kCDDhaaz9K1IO_fekaHHFziaUx8XFEw6zAbCepwvsoYVnRf-nowR5tsRib0qjJlhBrMCQGDzljxcy/w400-h266/472721A2-F3BB-44E9-B2C4-10CC97C566C7.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The spool above has lasted forever: I purchased it back in the day when Habu was based on West 29th Street in Manhattan! This yarn shrank the sample about 50% width-wise -- again, overkill as far as the curves I was looking for.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIewLFaLVXHKBOoJcxZ831_XsVusJty08Hl7eFV7EnQ6aW-wgMkltsINHu3fs7efm263yx2SP6JXH0GZ7quDhS5BpLsqmaB1TrafBmVOPU2prmfjwaSUxAjfBStUUwtaLy2QQ-Kcmgstkyt-LmODXei4Ii9P_PmkJTz_LLnQXPgUqykCBNSWEIt_fq/s2376/493F668E-6DA5-4DAF-A720-F0EDB94AC811_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2376" data-original-width="2108" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIewLFaLVXHKBOoJcxZ831_XsVusJty08Hl7eFV7EnQ6aW-wgMkltsINHu3fs7efm263yx2SP6JXH0GZ7quDhS5BpLsqmaB1TrafBmVOPU2prmfjwaSUxAjfBStUUwtaLy2QQ-Kcmgstkyt-LmODXei4Ii9P_PmkJTz_LLnQXPgUqykCBNSWEIt_fq/s320/493F668E-6DA5-4DAF-A720-F0EDB94AC811_1_201_a.jpeg" width="284" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">What did I learn from this? 1) That it's useful to design in the liftplan, especially when you want precise curves and patterns. 2) That you don't necessarily want to use active yarns for collapse effects, especially when you're working with turned twills. 3) That sampling, sampling, and sampling some more always pays off.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Perhaps, like me, you tuned in to "Textiles and Tea" with Kathi Grupp from <a href="https://weavespindye.org/textiles-and-tea/" target="_blank">HGA</a> interviewing <a href="https://handwovenmagazine.com/long-thread-podcast-anita-luvera-mayer/" target="_blank">Anita Luvera Mayer</a> on Tuesday, June 21. That was a big part of Anita's message: We need to sample and, even if we feel our samples aren't successful, we have learned something, so we've moved forward. I've certainly learned something, even if I'm not thrilled with the results.... But then again, maybe a long scarf with curving pleats, using de Ruiter's liftplan along with a variety of active and inactive yarns in the warp? In beautiful colors?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for reading!</div><br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-3140536049245546842022-05-22T19:35:00.002-04:002022-05-23T13:56:32.637-04:00Teaching and Touring in Oregon and California<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7S2gmXR_XSvKCWmlNkNJj3_JZSNRKUGLIVKRa13LwzCIE2OGwN2QVI0uKAFLyA8DvAewfznByktCH3xHNTQRjQhmCUDv0euF4E9S5TkCyFG7SZFu4iArBDUi9ebpTLZGZLzsPGfRl-lJ2WNGQXtxA2HplphhLHLaPsR1RbVjwVAS--BoqOFSqFcJV/s4032/Robin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7S2gmXR_XSvKCWmlNkNJj3_JZSNRKUGLIVKRa13LwzCIE2OGwN2QVI0uKAFLyA8DvAewfznByktCH3xHNTQRjQhmCUDv0euF4E9S5TkCyFG7SZFu4iArBDUi9ebpTLZGZLzsPGfRl-lJ2WNGQXtxA2HplphhLHLaPsR1RbVjwVAS--BoqOFSqFcJV/w300-h400/Robin.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Deflected double weave scarf by Robin Korybski, on the loom </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>at the weaving studio in the <a href="https://www.multnomahartscenter.org/" target="_blank">Multnomah (Oregon) Arts Center</a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>If you love to weave, you need to travel -- because you can gain so much inspiration from extraordinarily gifted weavers the world over. The techniques, colors, textures, and uses may vary widely, but there's a high level of fiber talent to be found almost anywhere, provided you know where to look. <p></p><p>Let's start with Portland, OR, where I taught a workshop on Echo threadings to the <a href="https://portlandhandweaversguild.org/" target="_blank">Portland Handweavers Guild</a>, thanks to the efforts (and beer, bread, and coffee) of program chair Lynne Fitzsimmons. It would take up way too much space to post all of the photos of all of the beautiful samples we wove, but here are a few highlights.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgImtLAe3cGN6nHc9qK_sF737A65HqV_naUSfzrNADp2N7DQpGk86Qu6YD8QW_4XvUsZlXuDkjdeicm1lLW1TKC-B9ZLjWKdd86xO3dwH-hSVvsyh_d6GUZA1XpokWFnifGzd-RDt27gxs1so0-ixiLyTlQHBs7yManXfoil9F2IrXnu2oGW5mrDRbO/s2759/Bertha%20Kao.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1996" data-original-width="2759" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgImtLAe3cGN6nHc9qK_sF737A65HqV_naUSfzrNADp2N7DQpGk86Qu6YD8QW_4XvUsZlXuDkjdeicm1lLW1TKC-B9ZLjWKdd86xO3dwH-hSVvsyh_d6GUZA1XpokWFnifGzd-RDt27gxs1so0-ixiLyTlQHBs7yManXfoil9F2IrXnu2oGW5mrDRbO/s320/Bertha%20Kao.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i>Echo sample on 8 shafts woven on two hand-painted warps (beamed together as one) by Bertha Kao</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK66CD0QzN2kHmoFQAYb0pUPO4s2gfJrlV_gktwVm1qHYFh_rq7j-4Y90-xjHVt787CqPCzluKVSU0xI_kTx1n-4j9tzsA4iU7yjjmwQo7OZAo1vUzJ0rmhpNCL4Lkg8MtlOKMl_yt_HYTpqLZ3PS4QPU02pXToS1gANngIGRjrLWtWCVBWaG-gK4r/s4032/Kathy%20Goetz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK66CD0QzN2kHmoFQAYb0pUPO4s2gfJrlV_gktwVm1qHYFh_rq7j-4Y90-xjHVt787CqPCzluKVSU0xI_kTx1n-4j9tzsA4iU7yjjmwQo7OZAo1vUzJ0rmhpNCL4Lkg8MtlOKMl_yt_HYTpqLZ3PS4QPU02pXToS1gANngIGRjrLWtWCVBWaG-gK4r/s320/Kathy%20Goetz.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Another 8-shaft Echo pattern woven on two hand-painted warps by Kathy Goetz</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk6Bczlso-1Cz9ccd2Bben-Q33geNB6McebxU7Gab2GOvIC2ggivLiz7WrCISXwsYPGitPH5U1E8fcMTsf9j1eoF07dQq-gSo5_mWxrOfOmjKDMqzTsDGvxym2_yoRevXHS5DSNxn_ilhTsZon8DEpQzqeLDYTni42FvSuvszRfzZLmIg6ALcREvlC/s4032/Lynne%20Fitzsimmons.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk6Bczlso-1Cz9ccd2Bben-Q33geNB6McebxU7Gab2GOvIC2ggivLiz7WrCISXwsYPGitPH5U1E8fcMTsf9j1eoF07dQq-gSo5_mWxrOfOmjKDMqzTsDGvxym2_yoRevXHS5DSNxn_ilhTsZon8DEpQzqeLDYTni42FvSuvszRfzZLmIg6ALcREvlC/s320/Lynne%20Fitzsimmons.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Two 8-shaft samples woven on two hand-painted warps by Lynne Fitzsimmons, in Rep (top of photo) and in double weave (bottom part of sample)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bertha, Kathy, Lynne, and others in this workshop had painted their warps a couple of months ago in a Zoom workshop I taught, "Paint Two, Beam One." The technique involves painting two warps in contrasting color palettes (varying in both hue and value) and then beaming them together on a loom to weave structures as varied as plain weave, twill, Echo, and double weave. It's a great preliminary workshop for my course on parallel threadings, because weavers can then thread their looms in the alternating color palettes (A/B/A/B) and weave them on an extended parallel threading. The results are a play of pattern and color, as you can see, creating surprises with optical mixing in the fabric.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Prior to the workshop, I gave a talk to a group of on-site and on-Zoom guild members, followed by a wonderful show and tell. I fell in love with an eco-printed scarf by Eva Douthit (below). The technique calls for cutting out rectangles of black kimono fabric (which contains indigo dye) and finding leaves and other plant life that you then sandwich between the kimono fabric and a silk-scarf blank -- a dye process that resulted in the other-worldly images below.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyr9WUD_f6zqlKprwRrJf2MkoGG-SwS6whMAqI_cHmucK19Du1p0JrGFJr1uXRfeTRm_60zd8zLnkRRuhFAmTHHpZFHHXC9Ihaytla9e_WoRS5XHKyo6x0MPp5xy2h1EReOGr305IViWtuPVz0oTzNlNctkZ9ImovU4zy8KBEYJ8hDCLpAcpVfBuJP/s4032/Ava.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyr9WUD_f6zqlKprwRrJf2MkoGG-SwS6whMAqI_cHmucK19Du1p0JrGFJr1uXRfeTRm_60zd8zLnkRRuhFAmTHHpZFHHXC9Ihaytla9e_WoRS5XHKyo6x0MPp5xy2h1EReOGr305IViWtuPVz0oTzNlNctkZ9ImovU4zy8KBEYJ8hDCLpAcpVfBuJP/s320/Ava.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Detail of a scarf by Eva Douthit</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So much to see and savor! I'm grateful to my iPhone, which to date has nearly 20,000 photos on it, which is ridiculous....</div><div><br /></div>The second leg of the trip was to northern California, where I taught at the Conference of Northern California Handweavers. From what I've learned from teaching on Zoom over the past two years, the entire West Coast -- from Alaska to San Diego, including British Columbia in between -- is full of weaving inspiration.<div><br /></div><div>And natural inspiration, of course.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyIUum4AzKSjrAPbKjpUouIUnDuTl1_cH_OZZK3U42RedL4lAJytbOZHcWcwqXhxJ8eQdKNG5E8l5w3oaELwO5IpcgNDRSECnF9Cd-l8zn3STqEqsR1o6CwLyUlGrqp4achIs5_eClj64UTTY_3lmiL8Vq1moCg6UpVZgojdkRsAUm30cgh5Xs2xzt/s4032/IMG_1506.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyIUum4AzKSjrAPbKjpUouIUnDuTl1_cH_OZZK3U42RedL4lAJytbOZHcWcwqXhxJ8eQdKNG5E8l5w3oaELwO5IpcgNDRSECnF9Cd-l8zn3STqEqsR1o6CwLyUlGrqp4achIs5_eClj64UTTY_3lmiL8Vq1moCg6UpVZgojdkRsAUm30cgh5Xs2xzt/w300-h400/IMG_1506.HEIC" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Take the redwoods, for instance. I have never seen anything like them. Walking through <a href="http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=546" target="_blank">Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park</a> in Felton, CA, near Santa Cruz, was like walking through a grove of grand and ancient friends. We had stopped to visit my sister and her husband and son at their new home in Boulder Creek, CA -- itself nestled in the redwoods, but what Californians call<i> young</i> redwoods.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIQIu0cmx65bvS_YV-1X_lqJdCi6HaDs4nymfR4rboYQOmpJ8gBTRlJQE6zsPQoQo6Vw0iVClqsUAgqBifP_0mA5Qg_EPJMSpFZsmXNp7uhIZm0_PeE9ZZzVOhcccEajXmXUzcIZqtGJRhoU1UiBnTEjiUHmpsztImj86_sKp2wOQiVKyX88OIqjVj/s4032/IMG_1504.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIQIu0cmx65bvS_YV-1X_lqJdCi6HaDs4nymfR4rboYQOmpJ8gBTRlJQE6zsPQoQo6Vw0iVClqsUAgqBifP_0mA5Qg_EPJMSpFZsmXNp7uhIZm0_PeE9ZZzVOhcccEajXmXUzcIZqtGJRhoU1UiBnTEjiUHmpsztImj86_sKp2wOQiVKyX88OIqjVj/s320/IMG_1504.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Redwoods near my sister's home in Boulder Creek, CA</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then on to San Mateo, to teach at the <a href="https://cnch2022.com/" target="_blank">Conference of Northern California Handweavers</a>. It was a reawakening, of sorts, for most everyone there, because everyone had been quarantining for the past two years....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiLCOqWUV2HBHkwDFTMrXH7LtglypRy-3qcLTuPOqZZZS-2mw9pBLvyVmZn3jTT3PpRF-dDIVR91ikeoIQW3g99eQRTWKXo4VkSqhoFwAh1xZglZl4jwUqlTl8wGU9n6pQStdEtrDrCDDaWgt8LI5zQniQXLxLhyYMcNB7tIIft3PS928U7MzYl-FK/s5284/IMG_1414.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2267" data-original-width="5284" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiLCOqWUV2HBHkwDFTMrXH7LtglypRy-3qcLTuPOqZZZS-2mw9pBLvyVmZn3jTT3PpRF-dDIVR91ikeoIQW3g99eQRTWKXo4VkSqhoFwAh1xZglZl4jwUqlTl8wGU9n6pQStdEtrDrCDDaWgt8LI5zQniQXLxLhyYMcNB7tIIft3PS928U7MzYl-FK/w400-h171/IMG_1414.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>A photo of my classroom, taken by conference organizer Nancy Williams-Baron</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Again, I was struck by the degree of talent, as you can see below on this 24-shaft sample woven by Donna Kaplan of Seattle.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpINMbIDNHSYQZLoYoXl83ytZCH5egyyREJxP9vcoSbV7ETnuhvbMnTn8HW0lXHzrfDCKrKWaIdtO_wNQAoqJUB_Y_ljuoh739GfeV9siOAu3fFM2xQ3jLl6FvNABCnQwWgAVaBSHUfdc6vFhZ5OmU2fW2ruZZxvWtrtPo3SDWq-kvHySOzx_9ZQcE/s4032/IMG_1549.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpINMbIDNHSYQZLoYoXl83ytZCH5egyyREJxP9vcoSbV7ETnuhvbMnTn8HW0lXHzrfDCKrKWaIdtO_wNQAoqJUB_Y_ljuoh739GfeV9siOAu3fFM2xQ3jLl6FvNABCnQwWgAVaBSHUfdc6vFhZ5OmU2fW2ruZZxvWtrtPo3SDWq-kvHySOzx_9ZQcE/s320/IMG_1549.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Susan Maturlo wove an 8-shaft parallel-threaded version of the ever-popular pattern #728 that I adapted from Carol Strickler's book.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRNuGABNxDozm4L8e6AcmvfUXMLmgh4kqWx5bVesEoJYhRl23kiY48xMKUclz0Q9k9nPbGjIL_1Y6rAzrko6lFDdJwK7263tp8SgeIuAKJs4mz8uNUYB1V29zpTxOARU7qbapnVZyDc5bQo5lkyFiGhyibztiFKYX9fwcT5Ho1TE3jGmeYpxulX2o1/s3832/IMG_1552.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2270" data-original-width="3832" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRNuGABNxDozm4L8e6AcmvfUXMLmgh4kqWx5bVesEoJYhRl23kiY48xMKUclz0Q9k9nPbGjIL_1Y6rAzrko6lFDdJwK7263tp8SgeIuAKJs4mz8uNUYB1V29zpTxOARU7qbapnVZyDc5bQo5lkyFiGhyibztiFKYX9fwcT5Ho1TE3jGmeYpxulX2o1/s320/IMG_1552.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Rep variation of Strickler #728, parallel threading on 8 shafts, woven by Susan Maturlo</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There were exhibits, of course, and vendors, of course, and wonderful food and friends. I ran into Suzanne Woodhead of the <a href="http://renofiberguild.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Reno Fiber Guild</a>, who wore a shawl of deflected double weave fabric based on a pattern in a Zoom workshop I taught, organized by Suzanne for her guild. The fabric uses energized yarns that create puckers and ruffles in the cloth in the washing process. She looked elegant!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDEAJU6LQZDueJmb-T4EJniuItIOyXETPvk_i1xWd43foqsleWMRlv6urMl2q8vY57NySY-giysf6ZJzzNy6eIxNJXM25ztIEWNRIuS7cVjYlvhJWOMiLqj_x25_8jq9qIPoF5b3qCAt8Ky_rHXm4L10yvcrRCjAyhkduTTL1xF5zVS5WdKWQJcUNX/s4032/IMG_1557.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2920" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDEAJU6LQZDueJmb-T4EJniuItIOyXETPvk_i1xWd43foqsleWMRlv6urMl2q8vY57NySY-giysf6ZJzzNy6eIxNJXM25ztIEWNRIuS7cVjYlvhJWOMiLqj_x25_8jq9qIPoF5b3qCAt8Ky_rHXm4L10yvcrRCjAyhkduTTL1xF5zVS5WdKWQJcUNX/w290-h400/IMG_1557.HEIC" width="290" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Suzanne in her deflected double weave art-to-wear</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The entire trip was about fiber, friendship, and family -- and wouldn't have been possible without the lovingkindness and support (and driving skills on those mountain roads) of my husband, Larry, seen here on the left with my sister, Buff, me, and her husband, Jim, among the redwoods in Cowell State Park.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipphckr5Q660XuZrE9ERn6b2lvONqEa-dUp9om_uzYX6U97z8YR6xBoTtQt4h2xbzuq5GQa56JDnLKS2CcbbZIGxmbGYvylik1FFnFBalaLcJXB-VF63IjNsKijxoKo2cwAOfY_zzL4WuaSqroGRoualpbogRxqTvfLkpfMbxTjXXrRwdzoFmGaKOi/s4032/IMG_5422.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipphckr5Q660XuZrE9ERn6b2lvONqEa-dUp9om_uzYX6U97z8YR6xBoTtQt4h2xbzuq5GQa56JDnLKS2CcbbZIGxmbGYvylik1FFnFBalaLcJXB-VF63IjNsKijxoKo2cwAOfY_zzL4WuaSqroGRoualpbogRxqTvfLkpfMbxTjXXrRwdzoFmGaKOi/w400-h300/IMG_5422.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for reading!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p></p></div>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-86900818840521411982022-04-15T14:58:00.002-04:002022-04-15T15:00:54.305-04:00April 28 to May 1: The Weavers' Guild of Rochester 75th Anniversary Celebration!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FjTK2QimGWIksDuRSm1moF58IXEWIVOwpA16UGR28zOTM4QDP-uHNFehL8RV-gcR1G61DRSOtLqMAe4KsjDg6lMj8Z7ap1VrtNMsGB-ruTD-YRix5hl2YH_D_VgMyZBW6uBfUcc1S9qsRpxgpUODkirU_40la4AimpmCBJOansJFbVQuwrcRaXp9/s2100/75th_postcard_front.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FjTK2QimGWIksDuRSm1moF58IXEWIVOwpA16UGR28zOTM4QDP-uHNFehL8RV-gcR1G61DRSOtLqMAe4KsjDg6lMj8Z7ap1VrtNMsGB-ruTD-YRix5hl2YH_D_VgMyZBW6uBfUcc1S9qsRpxgpUODkirU_40la4AimpmCBJOansJFbVQuwrcRaXp9/w458-h640/75th_postcard_front.jpeg" width="458" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Weavers' Guild of Rochester celebrates its 75th anniversary this month. We are so proud of our longevity and our growth that we've planned a four-day-long series of events, all free and open to the public. Hope you can join us!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_UpG9RVoL4sEpCUQrP4z8HvMEqSaXB7XT6VzKutZlg-5s0v_EqlAZ76VWcVC89aFSrnVaEK8n8G0tDI213gdWIfjU6k17OJMEqwHWTKMf6cN-YolqY3Iixm8fuAY4LxPUDAcXA9emTK5pdzhV-enr6s4wzwiQjlw6vgZ81a1phKNxIBpnxW5y7Ny0/s3546/C2D6A5C7-FD40-4600-B801-0C5FE9755838_1_201_a.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3546" data-original-width="2840" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_UpG9RVoL4sEpCUQrP4z8HvMEqSaXB7XT6VzKutZlg-5s0v_EqlAZ76VWcVC89aFSrnVaEK8n8G0tDI213gdWIfjU6k17OJMEqwHWTKMf6cN-YolqY3Iixm8fuAY4LxPUDAcXA9emTK5pdzhV-enr6s4wzwiQjlw6vgZ81a1phKNxIBpnxW5y7Ny0/w512-h640/C2D6A5C7-FD40-4600-B801-0C5FE9755838_1_201_a.heic" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b>EXHIBIT</b></i> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Most important is our exhibit, featuring beautiful pieces that are woven, spun, knitted, dyed, felted, beaded, and crocheted (among other fiber-art techniques) by our members. These works will be on display for four days at the Eisenhart Auditorium of the Rochester Museum and Science Center. Some will be for sale and some will be juried -- by Wendy Marks, director of Shop One and the University Gallery at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Prizes will be announced at 3 p.m. on Thursday, April 28.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i>RECEPTION</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The opening reception takes place on Friday, April 29, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i>KEYNOTE ADDRESS</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On Saturday, April 30, from 4 to 5 p.m., Marcia Weiss, director of the textile design program at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, will give the keynote presentation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i>FASHION SHOW:</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And on Sunday, May 1, we'll have a fashion show at 2 p.m. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i>DEMONSTRATIONS</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In addition, we'll hold demonstrations of loom weaving, tapestry weaving, spinning, and knitting throughout the exhibit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">American Sign Language interpreting will be available during the announcement of the awards, the juror's walkabout after the awards presentation, and the keynote address.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Weavers' Guild of Rochester was formed in 1946, with early meetings taking place at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester. As the guild grew, we met at a variety of different venues, most recently at the First Baptist Church of Rochester. More than 75 years since we began, we have our own Weaving and Fiber Arts Center, a highly successful Holiday Show and Sale, and nearly 200 members active in all of the fiber arts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And what will I be entering in the exhibit?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAe8BxMq0XMrIatzG6w6EyTdz35Rty5mr_z-FftIF_z6ggwpXRB0EQihXmcwhmk7FQ5mJILYAV9q20lIh6FIFk8z4n664MbxhOjvRQmmbynbKJJb1prBs1Gan7jzpDXl_CmoIC8aXNJ6N6reZ3mkgh16808NLjSbfo7Y-eiAZBslUHaPDQ5cD6v3rM/s2368/Ms%20and%20Ws%2016%20shaft%20DDW%20scarf.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2368" data-original-width="2240" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAe8BxMq0XMrIatzG6w6EyTdz35Rty5mr_z-FftIF_z6ggwpXRB0EQihXmcwhmk7FQ5mJILYAV9q20lIh6FIFk8z4n664MbxhOjvRQmmbynbKJJb1prBs1Gan7jzpDXl_CmoIC8aXNJ6N6reZ3mkgh16808NLjSbfo7Y-eiAZBslUHaPDQ5cD6v3rM/w379-h400/Ms%20and%20Ws%2016%20shaft%20DDW%20scarf.jpeg" width="379" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The theme of the exhibit is "Diamonds," in honor of our diamond anniversary -- so I had to enter this 16-shaft deflected double weave infinity scarf, of course! It's woven with two hand-painted warps in 18/2 merino and 10/2 cotton, then fulled by hand to create the puckering of the cotton layer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSxuOjtbarWIFVOEpggqMhPLKxqehNkxhhsFUpPFuU5Djv3O2inzGIY-P06vsPyM9FgJjgayfwAgkuP8fW_0HN1Vu8KAjwOczR5lwQaAbHPADQwVVsB7QCXVrFFBpCVUvy9RMC5KiYHBaQAFXtuomxCDsLZ-eRxOGUsqEnZVgvDrEoTGFZ9dzJ5zY/s5087/_mg_0958_V2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5087" data-original-width="3107" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSxuOjtbarWIFVOEpggqMhPLKxqehNkxhhsFUpPFuU5Djv3O2inzGIY-P06vsPyM9FgJjgayfwAgkuP8fW_0HN1Vu8KAjwOczR5lwQaAbHPADQwVVsB7QCXVrFFBpCVUvy9RMC5KiYHBaQAFXtuomxCDsLZ-eRxOGUsqEnZVgvDrEoTGFZ9dzJ5zY/w244-h400/_mg_0958_V2.jpg" width="244" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A second piece I'm entering is the coat above, which I call "Blue Rills" because of the cascading blue motifs that cover the burgundy ground cloth. This is woven in 8-shaft deflected double weave using two hand-painted warps. Like the scarf above, I used differential-shrinkage techniques, washing the fabric with hot water, soap, and agitation so that the ground cloth (in 18/2 merino) fulled and the pattern layer (in 20/2 cotton) collapsed into curves that look like lace. The pattern is by Marcy Tilton.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Vl4nXa_rD8xEXsp7sWzFExac7uw4PJyLSE_m4QCr3HN4-4ABNqEXPCnPrG8P7PCGtsNo8Hu5SXTDvfI9ViD2GjHX2v_7KQrrQzhZwBqa1xV1230Kys8bmH89PNbjpHC9bRhPwdJqjrDS_k2Cwz3J4XSsFv_r905Gf3gH37tCx0B2y-xktbAPr1bv/s5196/Pagoda_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5196" data-original-width="3341" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Vl4nXa_rD8xEXsp7sWzFExac7uw4PJyLSE_m4QCr3HN4-4ABNqEXPCnPrG8P7PCGtsNo8Hu5SXTDvfI9ViD2GjHX2v_7KQrrQzhZwBqa1xV1230Kys8bmH89PNbjpHC9bRhPwdJqjrDS_k2Cwz3J4XSsFv_r905Gf3gH37tCx0B2y-xktbAPr1bv/w258-h400/Pagoda_1.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><p>Finally, I'm entering this scarf of degummed reeled silk, woven on three hand-painted warps in a 12-shaft extended-parallel threading tied up and treadled as Rep, without the thick-and-thin wefts. I call it "Pagoda" because the pattern reminds me of the curves of the pagoda roofs that are so famous in China.</p><p>Thanks for reading!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJFpu_tzk45UJ2qfJuv_F42LTaxoiMDQ3NIlz0iVTkHuFnPfiC2A7UbuKYAHkPGQlcgP96xzVKEC7rDH_v-5NFl0gLsmR1L2U5YeWzkWXr-NhwYvDQjfjboai4At6IBzgJDOUvSyQWitzP-rvKwPgUGwcnnZhoqFwOwKO9kLNiEOEO9X0EbGVFt0im/s1310/Pagoda%20detail.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="1310" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJFpu_tzk45UJ2qfJuv_F42LTaxoiMDQ3NIlz0iVTkHuFnPfiC2A7UbuKYAHkPGQlcgP96xzVKEC7rDH_v-5NFl0gLsmR1L2U5YeWzkWXr-NhwYvDQjfjboai4At6IBzgJDOUvSyQWitzP-rvKwPgUGwcnnZhoqFwOwKO9kLNiEOEO9X0EbGVFt0im/s320/Pagoda%20detail.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1707249357803977208.post-24624111798596882792022-03-17T18:30:00.006-04:002022-03-18T09:53:03.892-04:00More Explorations in Parallel Threading: Playing with Strickler #728<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvl_GtGKeRFtzQcvfti3mdcWAj2JZTLNIxHCh8Jgbt715x54Wd5u-HP7eeRyFhUaZ064UWu-iNo80nZTM-IiDeLo8emJFx3rfM6p2O-XnjLrTf8UryHxVo1Vhl96wHvGOkjH8M1z1AUHMNTTv0vgNRVFMoMe3cKpkcO-P_6c2nmpCHh_4dZQrRNH0R=s2659" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2575" data-original-width="2659" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvl_GtGKeRFtzQcvfti3mdcWAj2JZTLNIxHCh8Jgbt715x54Wd5u-HP7eeRyFhUaZ064UWu-iNo80nZTM-IiDeLo8emJFx3rfM6p2O-XnjLrTf8UryHxVo1Vhl96wHvGOkjH8M1z1AUHMNTTv0vgNRVFMoMe3cKpkcO-P_6c2nmpCHh_4dZQrRNH0R=w400-h388" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiCG3AB0q9ui8xu1ZOYXFUTSa1p1c6jU-qZXtKTGj5ZfjmLGNB4IctClwB8iaOCRuAW5GvkwXIlQyUPgYL4AaBXOoz9PaXU8fAOjwtZFLr3HuEUyIe1Gs_apcENbRcPIbXt4C1te7v-bOHo9EJCbFt6RvY8eAaXtSeX6xQlXa_xD6oOqWUoteb26pW=s3773" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3773" data-original-width="2875" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiCG3AB0q9ui8xu1ZOYXFUTSa1p1c6jU-qZXtKTGj5ZfjmLGNB4IctClwB8iaOCRuAW5GvkwXIlQyUPgYL4AaBXOoz9PaXU8fAOjwtZFLr3HuEUyIe1Gs_apcENbRcPIbXt4C1te7v-bOHo9EJCbFt6RvY8eAaXtSeX6xQlXa_xD6oOqWUoteb26pW=s320" width="244" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Among the 10 or 20 most popular contemporary weaving patterns, Strickler #728 (first photo) is among them, I would guess. I've seen many iterations on Facebook and it never fails to dazzle. And if you "Google" the pattern, the variations go on and on, as you can see in this screen shot from my computer....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQWYpDFQVYejdAjJbJNCpUxqzmm7HBCcXoiWXygFbmHj09Om8SVzxjK100dsqyOh9wWnfl9OooOAqDnJ6hsvKTQCuIiiT-P--uAjPylF9d0COfXcnDHMas9HcZIV-Ijnvuqh35flHabn4jUdjSVdNEHB5o8RnxLkvGBgiYnuHNo-yPCmFsURSvrku_=s3444" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1839" data-original-width="3444" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQWYpDFQVYejdAjJbJNCpUxqzmm7HBCcXoiWXygFbmHj09Om8SVzxjK100dsqyOh9wWnfl9OooOAqDnJ6hsvKTQCuIiiT-P--uAjPylF9d0COfXcnDHMas9HcZIV-Ijnvuqh35flHabn4jUdjSVdNEHB5o8RnxLkvGBgiYnuHNo-yPCmFsURSvrku_=w640-h342" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Credit goes to Joan McCullough, who designed this intricate, ornate gem -- a Rosepath motif in multiple tabby, which is one of the favorite structures of my "weaving mother," Joyce Robards. (Shout out to Joyce, whose "Many Friends" design appears on the facing page in Strickler.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's the endless possibilities for interactions of color and pattern, I believe, that entice most weavers. But for this post, I would like to play with the design potential of #728 using an extended parallel threading, otherwise known as an Echo threading. Once again, McCullough's pattern shines!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQE4y8O5s8bcI-StWot31zUhXBWCHnYn0Yw-zowSqy4dy7cTGD5s-UqzklnYrk66zH4QA0kDoeZlLYcYzMcOZRcBibokbVIlxkrYKnbaXdW2-4bbRCnPgvrQeESpoLoyyCNPpGsepI5v2ME3Gi5qr-VO7IpHpONYH8frzIx0Gp0Yut91GTajO44aHj=s2277" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1775" data-original-width="2277" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQE4y8O5s8bcI-StWot31zUhXBWCHnYn0Yw-zowSqy4dy7cTGD5s-UqzklnYrk66zH4QA0kDoeZlLYcYzMcOZRcBibokbVIlxkrYKnbaXdW2-4bbRCnPgvrQeESpoLoyyCNPpGsepI5v2ME3Gi5qr-VO7IpHpONYH8frzIx0Gp0Yut91GTajO44aHj=w400-h311" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The original draft of #728</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Above is the original threading, tieup, and treadling you find in Strickler. To create the same pattern in Echo, all you need to do is click on the "Warp" dropdown menu in Fiberworks, choose "Parallel Repeat," then "Overlapping Repeats Shifted by 4," and then "Apply." (Please note that the "Parallel Repeat" command is available only with Fiberworks Silver. Also, I am using a Mac, which has slightly different commands from a PC.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's what you get:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdKKTNitr3Jd9Qbgf1_HTkyNmfWP1JiNAN9kO-e44iqCgJAWeGvjtU8L5fanXDR-2MysizooX4jOi3j2_8x14Ge0gK6H6vPqne24ZtiPzgvA12FVmOqSgugDk7AqIMTtmtVdtHhp-8jelG-iEkSWBSUW2yR4lmCCaIQdN-FtjCk2fjqhQECTaHqbsm=s3130" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="3130" height="56" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdKKTNitr3Jd9Qbgf1_HTkyNmfWP1JiNAN9kO-e44iqCgJAWeGvjtU8L5fanXDR-2MysizooX4jOi3j2_8x14Ge0gK6H6vPqne24ZtiPzgvA12FVmOqSgugDk7AqIMTtmtVdtHhp-8jelG-iEkSWBSUW2yR4lmCCaIQdN-FtjCk2fjqhQECTaHqbsm=w640-h56" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Yes, there are some threading issues: above, you see there are eight sections where two sequential warps are threaded on the same shaft. My answer is simply to alter those threads by moving one of each pair up a shaft, reflecting the pattern below them (on the right) and above them (on the left). Here is the result:<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQbBlSqjWbVyx6cCMC8PEC1LgXXIZP4kX6XUMZdeC8DldVAOrzevpQ_iJtyOgwKxFTnHU5kCyPYc2XN0vDGkvHI_k_mDOxNNfHemKOwKfPAWH_-HPR7TwXZ1Y1WQ7SU6ZzrT1eH-SdkdLtvYp2Idd1f1Uz4Q662xUG2xZjj0u8wR3G-tLkImyTEgY6=s3124" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="284" data-original-width="3124" height="58" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQbBlSqjWbVyx6cCMC8PEC1LgXXIZP4kX6XUMZdeC8DldVAOrzevpQ_iJtyOgwKxFTnHU5kCyPYc2XN0vDGkvHI_k_mDOxNNfHemKOwKfPAWH_-HPR7TwXZ1Y1WQ7SU6ZzrT1eH-SdkdLtvYp2Idd1f1Uz4Q662xUG2xZjj0u8wR3G-tLkImyTEgY6=w640-h58" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Now we have a viable Echo design, using the same tieup and treadling as the original twill pattern.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhv089Bj535xJ1lcqacU858SdbLploOsTBxlCFYXeimeRGYBv_8G8Jz8UAF4to10OSiOy0_WftgL1u6ZIJ-iB39vS_1Mz_LjQPaCyzBIMVD6J5kSAw3vIQeulnyR5B9cV7aqhntPDu9I_eTs43fjE35Dtopb-VkQ6-CEd-zkQaRIKHcGKE7XJsXzDCB=s3175" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="3175" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhv089Bj535xJ1lcqacU858SdbLploOsTBxlCFYXeimeRGYBv_8G8Jz8UAF4to10OSiOy0_WftgL1u6ZIJ-iB39vS_1Mz_LjQPaCyzBIMVD6J5kSAw3vIQeulnyR5B9cV7aqhntPDu9I_eTs43fjE35Dtopb-VkQ6-CEd-zkQaRIKHcGKE7XJsXzDCB=w640-h260" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I could see using different-colored stripes in the warp as weavers love to do with the original twill design, so that the linear motifs are outlined and clarified.</div><div><br /></div><div>What about Jin? Using the same parallel threading, all you need to do is create a 4/4 descending twill tieup and add tabby shots in between. (Note that I changed the weft color to black to emphasize the patterns.)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg26mDoykk74D4yZRraub2cq7tlx2cp0V90Vy1U3B3XAoDTn1nj96c4uSBotwx3Z8JH9Kr0kFqPmnAGGV8aPNSBFax-kKJma3adwYbC9awwc60SSw7KK_7Ctt6JNFuJ40l36OyzkW82QmxMm42m0Vc5PVGrs0sGXaj7UyOvBHNYPCBvjzU-rEKZcBN6=s3147" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1301" data-original-width="3147" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg26mDoykk74D4yZRraub2cq7tlx2cp0V90Vy1U3B3XAoDTn1nj96c4uSBotwx3Z8JH9Kr0kFqPmnAGGV8aPNSBFax-kKJma3adwYbC9awwc60SSw7KK_7Ctt6JNFuJ40l36OyzkW82QmxMm42m0Vc5PVGrs0sGXaj7UyOvBHNYPCBvjzU-rEKZcBN6=w640-h264" width="640" /></a></div>The appeal of 728 continues. So let's try Shadow Weave, which is also on a parallel threading -- as well as a parallel treadling, with a 4/4 ascending-twill tieup.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhomub_1GuFdapeUT0ie_r-DFk9OZ8kqnL9alwI-k4kDvvbSDGp9Sqb_1R_tWAE9ycznu9riau08C6rz8sdtf333wRfJVqfNDsqONkBE3_ZNXNf_rTunLeAG0DnXcAZYNIbJJawoyJNJnSSdMBFx684giXc_b4YP5KSR-bi29Z415InlD9svmaVinZy=s2431" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2431" data-original-width="2411" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhomub_1GuFdapeUT0ie_r-DFk9OZ8kqnL9alwI-k4kDvvbSDGp9Sqb_1R_tWAE9ycznu9riau08C6rz8sdtf333wRfJVqfNDsqONkBE3_ZNXNf_rTunLeAG0DnXcAZYNIbJJawoyJNJnSSdMBFx684giXc_b4YP5KSR-bi29Z415InlD9svmaVinZy=w634-h640" width="634" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Instrestring," as my son used to say when he was a toddler. This may be a bit dizzying, but then again, it all depends on the colors you choose and the function of the piece.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Not much different from Shadow Weave is Rep: same threading, tieup, and treadling. The only changes are that the sett goes from plain weave to denser than double weave and the weft has alternating thick-and-thin yarns.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjENabNzfJyBQZ9kkUj0a4Wo2dDGEuJopsHU8h0NVXV_XIQSv3WanebS1qgTGJAOWSsuD-5ujypOBzTq_YIQiLifr3Z3WuRY9Q_QRmLoFiV71X8eF_YNwB69doIhyVXLOR2FDVe4r0rD_xnsA6J2rCj0QfnkP8Ru1-AFx92zJTPQJuLQmzgsJZORF1R=s3166" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1921" data-original-width="3166" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjENabNzfJyBQZ9kkUj0a4Wo2dDGEuJopsHU8h0NVXV_XIQSv3WanebS1qgTGJAOWSsuD-5ujypOBzTq_YIQiLifr3Z3WuRY9Q_QRmLoFiV71X8eF_YNwB69doIhyVXLOR2FDVe4r0rD_xnsA6J2rCj0QfnkP8Ru1-AFx92zJTPQJuLQmzgsJZORF1R=w640-h388" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I like this. Again, I see a lot of potential for playing with different-colored stripes in the warp. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Last, there's double weave, yet another structure that can be designed on an extended parallel threading. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlJ2IZcqEHLHovBy3A_gLJmVz0p4J65N94jpTj4ncPFzd3Gy5bYZVR1B2z2WxQrqEBtJuCff0thLx0IkfNGhdqJrPRlvTBYat_VX3NAyEIi5lmB03Dvqabo-BuINNkn8CLl0w6CODhl9qev_JumkyDTuE3wL3GxnSzUQAdNrpz8sMCU-uqcIgR87GX=s3195" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2316" data-original-width="3195" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlJ2IZcqEHLHovBy3A_gLJmVz0p4J65N94jpTj4ncPFzd3Gy5bYZVR1B2z2WxQrqEBtJuCff0thLx0IkfNGhdqJrPRlvTBYat_VX3NAyEIi5lmB03Dvqabo-BuINNkn8CLl0w6CODhl9qev_JumkyDTuE3wL3GxnSzUQAdNrpz8sMCU-uqcIgR87GX=w640-h464" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>728 in double weave, front</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiL6NXLntffZkBN9Yr0-fT2OR4gvQl5KoHAQYcgvpLXI-y_qxgddCLsiioV-UxI1Ndfm-LoOWuLfFIkix_NJXdO4JPrmIEgEnMTRQYj8AMIXMHrp7RpLpoJlZGI4LxMDrZZXrSjirXJHNrw4-spK07ve9ozXDE6g-o1zy5MXK02Ei5UhnVNavKA_E6b=s3173" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2318" data-original-width="3173" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiL6NXLntffZkBN9Yr0-fT2OR4gvQl5KoHAQYcgvpLXI-y_qxgddCLsiioV-UxI1Ndfm-LoOWuLfFIkix_NJXdO4JPrmIEgEnMTRQYj8AMIXMHrp7RpLpoJlZGI4LxMDrZZXrSjirXJHNrw4-spK07ve9ozXDE6g-o1zy5MXK02Ei5UhnVNavKA_E6b=w640-h468" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>And back, although not much different</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">McCullough's design comes through in so many variations -- and on just 8 shafts! I got to thinking: I have a 32-shaft Megado, so I wonder what would happen if I expanded the threading to 32 shafts, using a 4-color, 4-end parallel threading?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikBSsF_rvrJiUspXhZO4BLVUMgh1Qdai-YjlzmlkfC8T7fauFp2lliM8yv0EetjgTd7J-BeCX8_JpFIlASrxCEG4hUfiYLMF-FGHwK4S7otVlE4hI5JAowCcS4kK3DOBg9uVwAyRGMyUOTXPI5YBPVCj-TbQvNF1OLKFmqhNpWivq7XXzliuhAc-CL=s3169" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2193" data-original-width="3169" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikBSsF_rvrJiUspXhZO4BLVUMgh1Qdai-YjlzmlkfC8T7fauFp2lliM8yv0EetjgTd7J-BeCX8_JpFIlASrxCEG4hUfiYLMF-FGHwK4S7otVlE4hI5JAowCcS4kK3DOBg9uVwAyRGMyUOTXPI5YBPVCj-TbQvNF1OLKFmqhNpWivq7XXzliuhAc-CL=w640-h442" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The way I see it, this pattern is something like Beethoven's <i>Ode to Joy</i>, endlessly pleasing, whether it's performed as a piano solo or with a full symphony and chorus. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And who knows? Maybe I could develop a workshop on this? From Echo to Jin to Shadow Weave to Rep to Double Weave, from 8 shafts all the way to 32...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks for reading!</div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div></div></div>Denise Kovnathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954618260369767437noreply@blogger.com6