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The weaving is finished. The end on the belt on the loom: The narrowing end is done and pulled tight for density: The excess warp is pulled together to form a flat tassel: Just the finishing touch remains – need to find the most suitable …
80 centimetres. Already took down some warp bobbins, but corresponding weights hang very low still, so there’s definitely enough warp.
Working with a text-based pattern is actually very straightforward – especially when it’s the kind you can print out from GTT. Essentially, it’s a table: each row corresponds to a weaving row, with an indication of which tablets turn forward and which turn back. By …
Nearly 30 centimetres woven, and I’ve just given up trying to get a half-decent photo of the reverse side without taking the belt off the loom. So I reverted to using GTT. The top image shows the main pattern as it is on the loom; …
Just over 10 cm woven: Had to alter the pattern a bit during weaving as there were long floats just between pattern repeats. So just unpicked a couple of rows and changed to sequence. Now I like the look even better. Tried to take a …
Yesterday I warped the tablets for a new belt. This time it’s going to be narrow diagonals – only the reverse side won’t be a simple negative of the front; it’ll have a completely separate pattern of its own. For the first time, I set …
Two kids, not quite well, but rather energetic, are not exactly helping the weaving process. 😀 Not much more to weave though. 71 cm done, probably around 35-37 cm to weave. Have to go get some more weft thread as I ran out of this …
I’m not sure if the middle rose is just a particularly unlucky motif, or if my mind was simply elsewhere all day yesterday – but I ended up unpicking the same section three times. First, on the last row of petals, the outlines went off …
Now almost 30 cm woven: It’s the names next. Had to unweave a few times to fix mistakes or catch some warp threads that decided to walk on their own. A tiny error remains as I had noticed it too late, but thankfully that one …
16 cm woven at the moment. Based on the first pattern element, the average density of the weaving is about 4,8 rows per cm, which mans that the final band should come to about 117 cm. As can be seen on the photo, the warp …
Over four hours of work spread out across the whole day. 160 doubled warp threads in 40 tablets, plus 15 metres of weft on the shuttle. The most recurring thought of the day? “Why on earth did I get myself into this again?!” 😀 The …
