last night, i finished weaving the square footage needed for the mini golf hole! it was more exciting and relieving than i could have predicted, even though we still have a lot of work to do making hazards and pulling the whole piece together. nevertheless, i poured myself a nice, cold, new belgium mothership wit [...]
Posts Tagged ‘loom’
29 May
weaving the bedrock+ water hazard
i’m using a diamond twill for the bedrock: here it is wrapping up on the front beam: the warp has four colors: i’m using an extended herringbone twill + random warp for the water hazard. the orange cord you see below is used for the first few shots to spread out the warp (when you [...]
22 May
how to warp an earthy loom from front to back, abridged
1. tie the bouts you’ve measured to the front beam. 2. sley the reed. 3. thread your heddles: 4. as you’re threading your heddles, tie every ten ends with a knot: 5. tie your knotted ends to the back apron rod. 6. beam your warp (wind it up on the back beam). make sure you [...]
19 May
oh no — a broken warp!
if you weave, it’s bound to happen: a warp thread breaks. here is one of mine doing exactly that: this one didn’t totally snap, but a few of its plies seemed to have broken, and as a result it became much, much looser than the neighboring ends. to fix it, i pinned a new warp [...]
18 May
the herringbone grass
my second strip of grass is going to be woven in a herringbone twill with a color-graduated warp. here’s the first bout (first 150 ends of the 300 ends i need) measured out on the warping board: the high-tech little method below is what i use to keep track of the count. for every 10 [...]
16 May
the end of grass no.1
i’m almost done with grassy strip no.1. the whole thing is woven in 2/2 twill with the randomly striped warp and lots of weft striping. here it is wound up on the front beam: below is the back apron rod. you can tell i’m pretty much done because this is the end of the warp, [...]
14 May
random stripes and tapestry moves
for the first strip of “grass,” i decided to randomly stripe the warp. i pulled simultaneously from about 7 spools of my 8/4 cotton carpet yarn and wrapped them on the warping board. then, when i was holding the cross and sleying the reed, i randomly picked a color to sley. this process gives a [...]
7 May
plaid sky
i can only weave 2′ wide on my loom. most of my fairway is about 4′ wide, however, so for every section i need to weave two lengths that will be sewn together. i’m making the second length of “sky” a plain weave plaid. it’s pretty easy to do — instead of measuring out one [...]
5 May
stripey sky
getting some of the “sky” tee-off carpet woven. here it is on the loom: i have three yarns wrapped on my shuttle, and i have three shuttles about that length. i’m alternating stripes randomly. below is a close-up of plain weave and the measuring tape i pin to the side to keep track of how [...]
5 May
my fairway is going to be really, really big sampler
yes, i’ve been “gone” for quite a while… the super short version is that i have moved from utah to colorado. the move has taken up the bulk of my time since my last post, but i’m back on the loom and whipping carpets out once again. i’ve decided this fairway, on one level, is [...]
