Theo Moorman and Katie

WOW! What exciting pieces that Katie wove for us at our Cabool May 2016 meeting.

Well, I think they were really for her and her family. She asked her kids and brothers to give her a sketch to use with this technique. These pieces she has used silk and her copier machine.

Now this piece she used fabric. Just awesome!!

A Little About This Slow Cloth

I am calling this 'slow cloth' because it is s-l-o-w. First I have to find a photo, print it on some fancy silk, cut it, put it in the correct shed..... And you should only cut one strip at a time so you don't put the wrong strip in out of order. I ordered this silk from Dharma Trading. (I have had good luck with this company.) It comes as a roll and you cut your size and send it through your ink jet printer.





 

I need to put on a different warp, and continue to 'try' to get that ticking warp - warped!  I am playing with Theo Moorman, ticking, and single two-tie. Three looms, three techniques! Fun! Fun! Fun!

More Slow Cloth

I don't think I have this Theo Moorman Technique figured out. I shouldn't have waited so long after my class with Nadine Sanders. I had to give it a good rap to get the background to look right. But that made the inlay 'smashed' . If you squint and know what the original image is, you can kinda see it.

This is an image of a blue ceramic jug with a pink towel.

 

Slow Cloth!

Just when you thought I was getting that ticking warp on the loom, you find I have been playing around with the Theo Moorman technique. A photo has been printed on silk on my inkjet printer, cut apart and woven. This is what I call slow cloth!



Weav-tasking....

Weav-tasking..... when one who is a weaver runs around working on several different project while not really finishing any. I know you know that you do this too!!!

Well, I did get one finished project. I think! It may need tassels on the corners, but I will think about that for a while. This is part of my Theo Moorman workshop. It's a sample that is now a very small pillow.

  This is the painted warps that I did just last weekend. I am combining two chains.

 

 

 And this is the draft for the painted warps. It's one of Ralph  Griswalds 8 shaft CRACKLE drafts.

 

Fustian continues to the 36:" mark. Only 9 more yards to go!!!!!

Working on Report

 Working on the report for the Weavers Guild of the North Shore who, with the Handweavers Guild of American, allowed me to attend the Midwest Weavers Pre-Conference. June 2013.

  My pre-conference class with Nadine Sanders on the Theo Moorman technique was very informative and it was exciting to learn a new weaving technique.

This is the perfect medium for using some of those wonderful yarns we have in our stashes. Alpaca, angora, camel, cashmere, qivuit, ramie, rayon, silk, synthetics, Tencel, sticks, beads, rocks, bugs........ you get the picture?????

Some Things Learned at Midwest Weavers Conference

I have been working on my report to the Weavers of the North Shore who, through the HGA, awarded me the Mearl K. Gable II Memorial Grant to attend the Midwest Weavers Pre-Conference.

As you know, I picked the class offered by Nadine Sanders: Weaving That Sings: Painting with Yarns. I went into this learning environment not knowing very much about the Theo Moorman technique. I have since learned it is a plain weave inlay technique. All you need is a four shaft loom, but now that I think I have the general idea, I see how this inlay technique has lots of design potential. The brain keeps churning and wondering.

A basic draft on a variation of the Theo Moorman technique. Nadine had other sleying options for different projects.

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O

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tie up

O= HEAVIER YARN

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X= THIN TIE DOWN YARNS

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plain weave

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G=ground weft

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P= pattern weft

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Reed= sleying order

12 dent reed

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2 ends- 2,1

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1 end- 3

2 ends- 2,1

1 end-4

Loom Ready.

OK, the table loom is ready to go to the Midwest Weavers Conference. Found the cart my DH (dear husband) made for me when I was taking my spinning wheel over hill and dell. It will be prefect for moving the loom from the car to the workshop area.

And if you click on the photo to enlarge it, you can see the 'sticks' I will take as a weft choice when doing my inlay work.

More Dressing

While I continue to wind the fustian warp onto the big Macomber loom, I also am trying to get this Theo Moorman warp wound on my table loom. I do believe I need it ready to go by next Sunday. Yikes! I really am almost done. And (thank goodness) it's only a four yard warp.

Theo Moorman Inlay Weft Yarns

This three day pre-conference workshop with Nadine Sanders at Midwest Weavers Conference (in a week) is starting to get me excited. It will be a great adventure.

 I am asked to bring, besides a warped loom, some pattern inlay weft yarns. Well, really, it looks it could be just about anything. But here is what I have tossed into the pile so far.

I might even throw in some sticks and stones. Who knows!!

Theo Moorman Warp Threads

Seems like all I have done this past month is wind warps....

This is for the Pre-Conference class at Midwest Weavers I will be taking at the end of the month. We weren't given much notice about what yarns we needed, so I had to do some scratching in the stash. I came up with some 20/2 cotton for the tie-down ends and 8/2 for the ground ends. Hope they work.

The nice thing about a workshop, you can really explore your subject. You really aren't making a finished project, so you can forget about a threading error, and maybe a skipped thread. And sometimes I find that when I do make mistakes, I actually learn more. So here is hoping I make 'some' mistakes and learn just what this Theo Moorman Technique is really all about! Because I have never seen anyone who has done it. Well, up close and personal...that is.

Getting Ready for Midwest

I am all excited that I might be getting ready to start throwing that shuttle for some fustian cloth, but I have to take a side bar and get some stuff ready for Midwest Weavers Conference.

I am taking a pre-conference class from Nadine Sanders (the singing weaver) based on the Theo Moorman technique. Weaving That Sings: Painting With Yarn.

The map shows me how to get there, and how far.