Weaver's
log, Earthdate 09032020
Monday and work week again even though it
doesn't feel like it as the sewing class is on internships this week. I plan to finish the 16 shaft first before I continue with the
diamonds even though I am hyped about that at the moment. But the 16
shaft is needed for an exhibition at the beginning of April. As I
wove I notice that the weave was crooked, you might be able to see it
on this photo,
at some point the beater had jumped a peg forward on
one side. To counter this I flipped so the one that hade jumped was
in the right place and the one that was in the right place got in the
wrong space. This helped me get it even again.
Ther are some fairly
large windows in the classroom am in right now and it's not that big.
So At the end of the day, I hade to move down to the larger weaving
classroom and started sleying the broken diamond. I tried to use this
little lamp I got for Christmas some years back from my dad to help
me see the individual dents better so I didn't skip one, the only
problem with it I didn't have too many places to put the magnet on so
it only helped the first December or so.
Weaver's log,
Earthdate 10032020
Now then I look at the pictures I have taken I
realise that the tap says 68 and not 86 as it did from the
perspective that I saw it from if you totally ignore the 70 above, I
feel so stupid. With that said, I will now continue the entry of
today. My goal for the pillow was 90 cm so I could do a Squier of 45
cm. I was so happy that the green ran out with only 4 centimetres
left from my goal so I finished it with only blue, you can really see
the difference mixing the colours did compare if I hade only done
one.
Then I was done with the pillow I thought should experiment with
different inlays. I started with using the same 8/2 cotton I have in
the warp. I liked how it turned out a lot and I have a lot of warp
left so I decided I will do another evolution from the original and
do a towel. The warp was getting a bit to lose at points so I pushed
in a stick under it but it slipped out so I tide it down.
The last
few hours of the day I went down to the broken diamond for some more
sleying. The warp started to go at un angel from the heddle and I
realised I hade past the middle point of the reed but not the middle
of my threads. Then it hit me that 7,5x2=15 so I clearly should have
hade 2 threads per dent and not one. I can not to this day understand
why I wrote down 1-1 on my draft as its so obviously wrong. So I hade
to start over. Luckily it went a lot faster then you do to threads
per dent, one could almost say it is twice as fast. At the end of the
day I was back there I started and some more.
Weaver's log,
Earthdate 11032020
It was quite easy to weave with the cotton, the
biggest issue was to beat loser then I hade done up to this point as
I want a soft towel and not a bord as my teacher should have said. It
went so smooth that I finished it today right after lunch. It is
always a special feeling to unwind a weave and its a good one.
Here
are some images of all three cloths from both sides.
The rest of the
day I Finished the sleying and did the front tie. I went with the
knot on the top, one I did on the 16 shaft again. The biggest issue I
have is that after some knots there are so many threads all over.
I
know am a tad bias but this is just gorgeous
Weaver's log,
Earthdate 12032020
Then I went to release the shafts this morning
I noticed I hade done wee bobo, but I just loosened the rope on the
shaft holder so it was not to bad. Then I started the test weaving I
notest that some threads where loser then others. This is how that
looks if you wounder.
So I started to retie them as I saw them. But
in the end, I decided to redo them all and tighten them thread by
thread, this took almost two hours and was a killer to my shoulders
and fingers as I hade to hold everything super tight.
Then I was done
I rolled the warp forward to do some more test weaving and instantly
the middle sacked down. This broke my moral.
Weaver's
log, Earthdate 13032020
During last night I remembered that the
tie-on bar at the front has a bend to it and that might be the reason
why it sacks in the middle. So Today I will start removing all the
inlay I have put in and the sticks so I can have a clean start. I
will also look for a stick that is straight this part was harder than
I thought but I found a mostly straight one. I also didn't use all
the strings from the beam this time leaving the outer once off. The
first picture shows how much looser the middle was.
Then I went back
to square one I started to pull out the warp from the middle knot by a knot from ether other side and about 3 threads at a time. I started
from the middle to keep some rigidity in the weave.
I brushed the
fuss to the middle to keep the inlay close to the threads I wanted to
remove as loos as possible.
Then I hade this much left on each side I
started to pull out the inlays instead.
This way I could bobbin it up
a lot easier and it just didn't turn into a mess. This time
everything looked good then I test wove. I hade problem to keep the
width though and then I realised I Hade done one more miss on this
weave. I hade counted the thread count on the finished width and not
on the width I wanted in the reed. So The finished weave will be
thinner then what I have calculated on the tuille I made earlier. One
could fix this by warping some more and roll it up and then weigh it
down to get the tension. But at this point, I was just sick of all
the problems I hade the last few days that I just went with it. I
also hade mist a dent apparently but as this is a weave that would
have been done on a warp-weighted loom I don't care too much about
it, my mom couldn't even spot it in the weave after I pointed it out
to her.
The cloth looks amazing though.
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