by StaceyW | Oct 27, 2010 | Art, Education, Teaching, Weaving
Combined single and double cloths is one of my favourite methods of creating textural weaving because of the immediate possibility of tension differences between the more compact single cloth areas compared to the looser double cloth construction. With handweaving,...
by StaceyW | Oct 13, 2010 | Education, Teaching, Weaving
In last weeks’ blog, I showed you how to interchange the two layers, something double cloth weavers of more than 4 shafts are probably quite familiar with. This week, I’ll show you how you can use the weft stitching to create the textural impact you...
by StaceyW | Oct 6, 2010 | Education, Teaching, Weaving
I wrote last week about the most familiar version of stitched double cloth – where a single warp end from one of the two layers is woven in with one pick of the other layer, so tieing the two cloths together at that point. There are other ways to achieve a...
by StaceyW | Sep 22, 2010 | Education, Teaching, Weaving
Last week, we talked about pique and how it is a tie-down weave. Matelasse is very similar, but without the tie-downs, so that means you have 2 more shafts available for the pattern warp. Historically, matelasse was a quilted cloth with wadding picks in a double...
by StaceyW | 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...
