Tien’s blog

My warping wheel is arriving late this week (impatience, impatience), at which point I will start winding on the warp for the doubleweave chapter of Bonnie’s book, Exploring Multishaft Design.  I’ve never attempted doubleweave before, so this will be quite interesting; it took me awhile to wrap my head around the basic patterns, but much [...]

The warp chains are dry! Here’s a photo:

In the right warp chain, I painted the maroon and indigo in alternating lengths of about 6″, in the left warp chain I painted it in lengths of 3″. You can see pretty clearly that the colors are clearer in the 6″ warp chain - [...]

I wound the warp for the study group samples this morning, and painted it this afternoon (in between doing my training ride for AIDS Lifecycle).  It’s 10/2 cotton, in the colors I mentioned earlier (maroon and blue).  It’s 13 yards long, which is probably overkill, but at least I know I won’t run out of [...]

After playing around with Kuler and flipping through my dye samples, I’ve decided that I am indeed going to go with gold, maroon, and blue.  Here’s a photo of the colors:

The gold will be weft, the warp will be predominantly maroon with some bits of the blue-purple.  I think it will work out nicely.
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After taking Bonnie’s suggestion to start out with one line and cross it with one other line, I think I understand plaited twills a bit better.  It’s actually not unlike drawing Celtic knotwork - which I learned in the course of making my Celtic knotwork pysanka eggs.  First you draw the ribbons in whatever color [...]