365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Monday, January 9, 2023
This Side Down
Day 88: Let's try this again, shall we? This is the wrong side of the fabric I photographed from underneath yesterday, and also the top/surface of the weaving from the weaver's perspective. The pattern is less apparent on this side, but you can still see that it has texture. That said, summer-and-winter weave should not be about texture, but about pattern. I could have achieved a very similiar look on a Rose Path draft without the additional effort of managing two shuttles. The design is also somewhat obscured by the fact that both shuttles are wound with the same colour per the instructions. The block design is interesting, but in the final accounting, it simply doesn't have that traditional "not quite reversed" appeal of other summer-and-winter drafts. Perhaps I'll like the bottomside/front better, but so far, I'm unimpressed.
Labels:
Dixon,
summer-and-winter weave
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