Warp + Weft Symposium

by | Sep 14, 2010 | Art, Education, Teaching, Weaving

This past weekend, I have been in deepest Camarthenshire at the National Wool Museum with around 45 other weavers and curators.  Laura Thomas organised a symposium specifically on weave – a rarity in the UK – and surrounded it with exhibitions, two...

Double cloth for texture

by | Sep 8, 2010 | Art, Education, Teaching, Weaving

This is a wonderful field of discovery for different textures.  The areas I have focussed on so far are different setts, different yarn properties, different weave structures, different ratios. Today’s blog is a quick overview of how texture can be created...

Overshot for texture

by | Sep 1, 2010 | Teaching, Weaving

Overshot is wonderful for creating texture.  The secret is to have all the floats on one side only.  Where the floats are not floating, they need to be woven into the fabric.  Bonnie Inouye first taught me this during the online workshop Wendy Morris and I did with...

Waffle weave for texture

by | Aug 25, 2010 | Teaching, Weaving

This versatile float-based weave has lots of different uses.  More often used for tea-towels for its ultra-absorbency, and blankets for its warmth-trapping cells, it can also be used effectively for scarves and for texture.  Moreover it’s a fun structure!  Using...

Shibori for texture

by | Aug 11, 2010 | Education, Teaching, Weaving

In my last texture blog post in July, I was talking about honeycomb.  At the same lecture that I gave at Complex Weavers Seminars on honeycomb, I also showed the results of shibori and seersucker techniques in creating texture in single cloth.  Shibori is usually...