365Caws is now in its 16th year of publication. If I am unable to post daily, I hope readers who love the natural world and fiberarts will seize those days to read the older material. Remember that this has been my journey as well, so you may find errors in my identifications of plants. I have tried to correct them as I discover them. Likewise, I have refined fiberarts techniques and have adjusted recipes, so search by tags to find the most current information. And thank you for following me!
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.
No comments:
Post a Comment