Share my passion for tablet weaving
Happy New Year! It’s time to catch up on everything that was put on hold during the festive marathon. First of all, I received a new warp spreader for the loom just before New Year’s Eve. It’s taller and has finer spacing than the first …
Got another flower pattern drawn: Preparing for the next weave, which is going to be double-face in rather thin cotton. Just need to smooth out the tablet holes as replacing warp threads is not what I’d be happy with during this weave.
The day before yesterday I finished the band, and yesterday I spent the whole day making tassels in between wiping small sniffly noses. 🙂 I’m really pleased with the results of all the experiments. Now I just need to think of a use for the …
Spent some time with paper and pencil, and GTT. Made a new pattern for double face double turn technique: bellflowers. Pattern is published here. Most probably there will be more double face patterns coming soon.
Used materials: linen fabric, linen and cotton thread, wollen yarn, metal rings, lead pellets. Needle, scissors, sewing machine. Kitchen scale. Hands. 😀 Made 18 weights – according to number of tablets needed to weave the pattern I chose for the test band. Initially I wanted …
Weights are progressing slowly. It seems that most people who tension their warp for tablet weaving using weights tend to use fishing weights. For example, Guntram does it this way. Initially, I planned to follow his example, but it turned out that my grandfather, who …
That’s exactly how it went for us – we looked, and we looked again, and we looked… and then we leaped. Quite unexpectedly, really. That is, we ordered the loom. Just in time for the end of summer and the beginning of the new indoor …