Day 188: For once I wasn't tied up with other projects when it came time for the April Weave-Along. My shafted looms were full, yes, but honeycomb is easily woven on a rigid heddle loom using either two heddles or a single heddle with a pickup stick and a heddle rod. Although this loom can use two heddles, I decided to go with the last option for no particular reason. The honeycomb structure is also known as waffle-weave, the first term being used more often in the UK and the last in the US. There's really no difference, although I tend to think of "waffle" as having fewer warp floats between the cells. Theoretically, this was to be a runner, but after I had wet-finished it and the fibers softened, it seems to want to be a spring scarf instead. Sometimes weavings have a mind of their own.
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