I began weaving with the rose bush canes today. I had to wait until I could borrow good leather gloves and clippers. I’m pleased with this first piece. The canes will dry and it will be interesting to see what happens. Already I see that they are drawing in the cloth as they dry. What fun!
Amazing! your silk weavings. What are you using for wefts? The dark brown on the bottom looked like human hair. The ones with the weft hanging out on both sides, what are they? What epi did you use? What loom did you use? Not that I’d ever attempt to copy your work but it just grabbed my attention. Amazing! The smallest I’ve worked with so far is 30/2 silk for warp & some glittery thread for weft as the 2nd thread for an overshot scarf. Just beautiful.
Dear Sherry,
The warp is sewing thread. The brown weft is, too. For the body of the pieces I’m using a fine, fine silk–fine as hair. I decided it was best so the warp showed more. Today I wove in rose hips!–Keep checking to see what will come up next.
Peggy
Dear Sherry,
I didn’t realize you were really looking at my silk pieces. Here is more accurate information. I’m thrilled you like them. The silk warp threads are sett at 96 epi. The woven pieces were woven as tubes, so the sett was actually 1/2 that (48 epi). Having two layers gave more resistance in the reed so I could weave 1/2 the sett and beat gently and easily to achieve the sheer quality I was looking for. The loom is a 4-shaft one made by my mentor, Jim Ahrens, the “A” in AVL. The dark brown hair is cow tail hair. My friend cut Rosie’s tail last week, so I have a new (small) supply. The wefts were really, really fine silk. It took over a year to spool off the skein. The threads hanging out are hunks of those silk threads–I gave up on unwinding the skein and just cut it. I’ve been using the lengths to put in–there’s a lot of it left. How close sett did you use for your 30/2? My sett charts in my Book #1 suggest 30 epi for plain weave and 40 for twill. I’m curious. Close setts are not difficut when you warp back-to-front. You just need to be able to see the threads and heddles (I have string heddles).