Painted Warp Scarf

This scarf I have just finished has been a very interesting adventure. First I wound the warp for a dye party. I didn't know how many ends I would need, so just wound 140 of 10/2 tencel. As this was the last warp I had to dye, I ran around to the others stations and used the dye colors that everyone else was using. It was a hit and miss kind of dye job. So the colors you see are the ones we all used at the dye party that day.

Next I wanted to work with a summer and winter draft to see how a painted warp would work with summer and winter, but ended up with a double two-tie draft instead. That is where instead of using just one shaft for the pattern shaft, I have used two different shafts. In summer and winter it is always 1 -X , 2-X... with X being the same shaft. In double two-tie you still have the tie downs on shafts 1 & 2, but your pattern shafts can be the same and different through out the draft.. 

Such as 1-4-2-8. 

 

As you can see here, I have the first unit as 1-3-2-4, the next unit is 1-5-2-6, the next unit is 1-5-2-6, ans the last unit is 1-6-2-7, (the 1-7 on the end is part of the next unit). The splitting of the pattern shafts is why it is called double two-tie.

So I developed my draft and sure enough, I needed more ends. I went to my stash and found some bamboo and added it to the edges. My pattern weft and tabby threads were silks I also had in my stash. 

I think this double two-tie draft does show off the painted warp. And the silk makes the drape yummy! This is going to a high school friend who likes color. 

More Winter Color

Just when you thought it was safe to go out side......

My driveway

Now you know why I needed some color in my head.

Summer and winter on eight shafts. Original design.

Winter Color

I am still pulling the threads through the heddles for the snowflake table runner in the loom room on the Macomber. It will be white on white. But, since there is all this SNOW...... I had to go get some color.

This is a painted warp I have had around for a while. It is 10/2 Tencel. I am using a very soft pale green silk as the weft and a 140/2 silk as tabby with this summer and winter draft. Both cones of weft and tabby were garage sale items so I only have the words on the cones to go by. I know they both are silk, but don't know the size of the pale green. But it seems to be about like an 8/2 bamboo size.

So I will keep threading the white snowflake threads while going to the Baby Wolf when I need a shot of color.

Hand Painted Crackle Scarf

Finished twisting the fringe on the crackle scarf. It is fine. But I think it would have been a lot better if I had dented the 6/2 bamboo at 18 or 20 epi. It's OK, but could have had more drape. I think I like the extra bit of twill work at the one edge. Makes you wonder just what the weave structure is!

Crackle and Snow Peas

I have a little warp left so I will try out a "green" as Heather over at Weft Side Of The Loom.blogspot.com suggested I try. Yum! Lots of colors are playing around here using this Snow Pea Bamboo.

Now I will have a nice sample to put with this Crackle draft. I wonder what this would look like if I did woven shibori with this draft??????????

Ta Da! Crackle Almost Done!!

I have finished the weaving on this handpainted Crackle scarf and am ready to hemstitch.
I went through the treadling repeat three times and had about four inches left to go. Well, I just started treadling away. So this edge will have a nice surprise. Maybe I should call it my "Cracktwilla Scarf". Nah................ ;-)

Crackle Handpainted Scarf continues......

Black was the color! I am loving it too!!

Since this is a one shuttle weave, it is going pretty quickly. I did tie-up the treadles for tabby because I needed that to do four picks of plain weave to hemstitch over. I am NOT weaving tabby between pattern picks. 

 I may have to add some black threads in the fringe area. Will just have to wait and see how it looks once it's off the loom.

Crackle - Black or Gray?

I was thinking that I needed to use black as the weft on this fushia/gray hand dyed warp, but maybe gray is the way to go........ decisions, decisions, decisions.

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!!!!!

Choke Ties

I am getting some warp chains ready for painting. I thought I would show you the choke ties I use for this and why I use them instead of the nylon looper. You don't want your choke ties to be to tight, or the dye will not get to all the areas. 

I will be putting my 'tence' warp chain in liquid and don't want to loose the cross or get it too tangled. So I will use some other thread, usually something bigger, and do a three-way divide. This usually keeps the fibers in some sort of order.

If I am just going from warping board to loom, I will use the nylon loopers. But they 'grip' to tight to use when painting your warp. Or at least that is what I have found out.

Eye Candy- Summer and Winter

I really enjoy designing and weaving summer and winter. Because of the way the tie-down ends work,  you can weave almost any design. The most important thing I try to remember is to stay within my treadle limit. I have designed some really cool drafts, but don't have enough treadles to weave it. Ahhhh yes, I have shaft envy (the more shafts the more treadles)!!!

I have covered a journal and had enough left over to have a coaster too. The mug was a result of good friend Shirley's kiln.



Hand painted scarf was the result of working on a Complex Weavers Tied Weaves sample exchange.



This is from a magazine or book. It doesn't show in the photo, but I used gold glitz as the tabby. It makes a great runner for my table during Christmas and New Years.