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.
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Weaving The File Sample
Day 100: The rigid-heddle project was relegated to the back burner for several months while I was nursing a bad shoulder. At long last, I finished it up this morning: a 6' table runner, a single placemat and the file sample you see me weaving here. I keep a record card for my weavings, details such as ends per inch, fiber, number of warp threads, pattern, raw vs. fulled measurements, etc., and whenever possible, I like to include a small piece of the cloth so that I have a quick visual reference. These details are often helpful when I want to start a new project. I can look back at my notes to see where I might increase the width/length, identify which colours worked well with others and so on. In order to do this, I add an extra foot or so to the length of the warp. Sometimes, if it's very stretchy, this extra length is enough to make an additional item. If not, I use it to weave the sample. As you can see here, I don't weave the full width, but rather cut away the warps at either side of a central section so that it's easier to see my work, and then weave just enough to show the pattern and/or colour sequence. In this case, I didn't need to show the whole rainbow change, only the transition from one colour to the next.
Labels:
file sample,
rainbow runner,
weaving,
weaving files
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