{"id":9549,"date":"2009-10-28T23:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/?p=9549"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:34:35","slug":"second-band-and-some-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/en\/handicraft\/tablet-weaving\/second-band-and-some-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Second band and some math"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finished the second braid in a bit of a rush today. Took photos while it was still on the loom \u2013 pink is just impossibly unphotogenic.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image blog-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/blog_09_10_28_mittens.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9545\" style=\"width:600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/blog_09_10_28_mittens.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/blog_09_10_28_mittens-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/blog_09_10_28_mittens-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/blog_09_10_28_mittens-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/blog_09_10_28_mittens-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/blog_09_10_28_mittens-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This time I remembered to measure and note down everything I could think of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The braid is 101 cm long and about 1.2\u20131.3 cm wide.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Total warp thread used: 64 metres.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Out of that, around 16 metres (!) ended up as technical waste \u2013 about half a metre of warp (along with tablets and weights) had to be cut off from the finished braid.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The tassels left on for now are 15 cm on each end. Once the braid is sewn onto the mittens, only the tiniest bit will remain \u2013 meaning at least another 6 metres will go to waste.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Weft thread usage: 6 metres, with a little to spare.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prep time (cutting the threads, threading the tablets, and warping the loom): 20 minutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Weaving speed averages at 8 cm per 10 minutes \u2013 that\u2019s pure weaving time, not counting technical manipulations like dealing with the twist.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>So, if you\u2019re not stopping for tea or other distractions, you can weave a band like this in roughly 3 hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. Have I mentioned that acrylic is a disaster in the tablets? Well, it is. \ud83d\udc7f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finished the second braid in a bit of a rush today. Took photos while it was still on the loom \u2013 pink is just impossibly unphotogenic. This time I remembered to measure and note down everything I could think of. P.S. Have I mentioned that&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/en\/handicraft\/tablet-weaving\/second-band-and-some-math\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[558,33,528],"tags":[612,654,684,702],"class_list":["post-9549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-handicraft","category-tablet-weaving","category-threaded-in-patterns","tag-acrylic","tag-finished-project","tag-numbers-magic","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9551,"href":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549\/revisions\/9551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrmegard.net\/treasury\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}