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Textile Art - Leaf in the Wind (preparation/warp up)

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Getting the loom warped up for a tablet woven band. Gold, grey and cobalt blue mid-weight linen thread. Using 26 cards, of which about 17 are already set up, following the threading diagram which is half-hidden under the loom. The pattern that should appear is also shown - provided that certain card groupings are turned forward/back in their correct combinations. A separate weft thread is passed to and fro, between the upper and lower packs of threads, after every 'turn'. This 'locks' everything into place and changes the individual threads into a cloth band. And yes, the 'cards' on the loom are, in fact, just bits of cereal box with holes punched in the corners.

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Textile Art - Leaf in the Wind (preparation/warp up)

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Saturday, 14 February 2009 16:08
Huh. That hardly looks complicated at all.
Saturday, 14 February 2009 20:58
Tommy Lee Jones' line from Space Cowboys comes to mind: "Aw, shucks, I thought this was gonna be hard."

Is the project finished yet? How long will/did it take?
Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:14
Hi, it's not finished yet. So far it's taken roughly 4 hours to get all the cards threaded up and ready to go. I've woven about 14" and that's about 4 hours' work. So, barring any mistakes, the whole band might come in at around 20-25 hours, plus finishing off time. Each mistake can take anywhere from 2 minutes to 1.5 hours to fix - unweaving can be fraught - so that can add on a bit. The 'quote' bands take much longer per inch to produce.
Sunday, 19 April 2009 22:04
Very cool. I have never heard of tablet weaving before. Spent some time looking around on the interweb. How did you learn it? Any book you would recommend if I wanted to give it a try? I've done some tatting which doesn't lend itself to anything Fireflyish, but I loved the Chain of Command you did.

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