Woven Shibori Show and Tell part 1

Tuesday was the big reveal from our dye workshop held in June. Our main focus was on dying something we wove using the woven shibori technique. And did we ever have some impressive textiles. We also dyed the usual warp chains and a few other items. Here is a look at some of the fun!

Anita painted these rocks for a fun project the town of Bolivar, MO is doing. 

This is my bag of woven shibori. I have posted most of it already.

Anita and the indigo pot!

Carol and her indigo towels.

Jan wove this awesome scarf and dyed it with the woven shibori technique.

Jan's shibori towels.

Carol's towels.

Beginning Inkle Program

Anita has started us on a Inkle workshop by helping us get set up. Only a few of us have woven on an inkle loom, and some of us have forgotten how to do it. Anita will be  showing us how to do pick-up on our looms. We have thick and thin warp threads. We have pattern threads and background threads. But just for today, we will warp our looms. Next month Anita will show us how to do the weaving part.

More Inkle

I am brushing up on my Inkle Loom skills. While looking through my library I found this bookmark in the Helene Bress "Inkle Weaving" book (copyright 1975, 1990). I also found "Weaving Inkle Bands" by Harriet Tidball (Shuttle Craft Monograph 27, 1969).

Gosh, I think I had better read these again since I don't remember how I did this I KNIT SOCKS bookmark!!

Inkle Loom

I have been playing with my Inkle Loom! My  DH (dear husband) made the shuttle for me. 

Weaving Guild Meeting June 2016

Visiting with other weavers and seeing what they are working on is very enlightening. It gets those weaving juices going when you might be in a rut on what to weave. From the basic cardboard loom to the 8 shaft loom, see what we have been up to.

A new weaver! He wove this on his cardboard loom. It is awesome!! He chose the yarns to use and where to place them. 

Sam W used rosepath for these towels.

A new-to-us book. Lots of 'REP' info too. Thanks to Sam W. for sharing this. 

Sam B. and a wonderful scarf.

Dawn and her family used some Oklahoma red clay to make a 'dye pot' and dye her t-shirt. She said it was very interesting and took a few days to complete the process but was loads of fun.

Katie has been at it weaving another blanket. Here she is showing the crocheted strips she used to connect the three panel blanket. 

Katie also wove some placements to go with some napkins she wove earlier. Outstanding! 

Vicki and her painted warps! The feel and drape is like butter. 

Vicki also shared her blue towels.   

Barbara loves to make different weaving tool. Here is a 'coffee stirrer' reed/heddle for a backstrap loom.  

Jane shared some wonderful hand spun mohair and alpaca.  

Jane also recycled some weft rags and wove a table runner.

I found my example of Theo Moorman. I made this small pillow with my sample. Katie gave a great program last month on this technique.  

Bo has been weaving scarves. They are 'yummy'!!

Bo also shared this very soft and beautiful blanket. 

Woven Shibori Towels with Dish Rags

Here are three of my woven Shibori towels with their matching knitted dish rags. I am very pleased with the towels and even the way the dish rags took the dye. The towels are 8/2 cotton warp and weft while the knitted dish rags are "Sugar and Cream" cotton. I had a lot of fun weaving and knitting then dying.

On this dish rag I added an extra 'flower' to help when extra scrubbing is needed!

Woven Shibori Dye Workshop

My once a year dye workshop was great fun! Our focus was on woven shibori, but we had lots of other stuff to dye too. We usually use fiber reactive dyes but this year we added an indigo pot. We were dying woven shibori, t-shirts, commercial cloth, hats, socks, warps.... you name it and we might have put it in the dye pot! Plant fibers from cotton to silk to soy was in the pot or set aside to batch. We will see the finished articles at the next Diva meeting in July. It should be a great show and tell!!