The fine silk warp at 125 ends per inch stymied me and I walked away and left it on the loom for a year and a half. I thenbegan dyeing. I knew there were enough threads left unbroken to weave so I began weaving with some heavier handspun silk from Bhutan. When I took off the entire warp, This piece is what I found had already been woven–and I loved it. Originally I was weaving a tube but had decided to weave two separate layers–hence this piece was formed! [click photos to enlarge to see detail]
Here is the cloth woven with the silk from Bhutan. I decided just to weave off the warp with it so I could cut it up to dye later with the natural dyes I’ve been playing with.
You may remember the skein from Bhutan from another post. The skein was unusual because there was a cross in it. Even this extremely sticky thread came off the skein perfectly.
Here is my latest peice–5 yards to try the new silk/retted bamboo thread I saw in Handwoven Magazine. I love it. I the twill warp face on one side and weft faced on the other so when I dye it I’ll have two choices of tones of color.
Gorgeous work, especially that last piece. Can hardly wait to see the dye job.
Glad you are back at the loom.
fascinating. experimenting is so much fun
Glad you’re back in the game, Peggy. Thank you, my former teacher/weaving mentor in Greenwich Village, for always inspiring and instructing and sharing your frustrations as well as your successes. This past week, I removed over 15 years of art materials, papers and dust to reveal a still intact Pearl Cotton warp on my 40 ” 8 harness Harrisville loom and now I am so excited to be back weaving again on it.
Super yummy!
it’s wonderful!