Pips’ Left Paw

Thanks! Definitely report back with how the towels feel and drape.

Looks great. Where did you get the hemp/cotton yarn?

The black pattern weft is a really nice choice. Great job!

Bravo!

Not yet! I still see the same post at the top and no blue refreshes.

Not controlling - I still have to do the levers by hand. The TempoTreadle just shows the next lift and which shafts are raised. It makes a happy chirp and advances once the shed is correct. Much easier than keeping track on paper (and there is no chance I’ll memorize a 56 pick repeat).

An eight-shaft table loom with a two-toned green warp. The cloth has three distinct sections visible, separated by two picks of blue weft. Each section uses a different tie up (or rather each section uses a liftplan based on a common treadling with different tie up).

Nearly halfway through the planned tie-up variations on the turned Bateman study. #weaving #handweaving

It’ll keep. Just continue your trip with the knowledge you’ve made something valuable to us. :)

Thank you!!! The satins gradient piece is several feet long and doesn’t have any useful plan. The more recent bits are all of a size to be hemmed into hand towels or dish towels (or handed off to more embroidery-minded folk if they want it for stitching on).

This other Weaving feed seems to be functional bsky.app/profile/did:... but it catches a different and smaller subset of posts than the Weavers Knot feed, and the (original, for me) Weaving feed made by mossgatherer seems really broken.

A loom with natural-color linen cloth in progress. The pattern is outlined diamonds separated by thin lines of huck spots. Each line is all weft spots or all warp spots so they have distinct textures.

A detail of the two different textures in the lines of warp spots vs the lines of weft spots.

The same loom later on, with a different huck draft. This one has tilted trapezoids or not-quite-linked thick line segments. The effect is like a herringbone pavement (but not very much like a herringbone twill, oddly.) The photo is taken at a low angle so the wove cloth winding onto the cloth beam is visible in the background at the bottom.

A different angle that more clearly shows the trapezoids of huck lace on the plain weave ground cloth.

The Studio Staycation continues, with mornings on the big loom and the ongoing 40/2 huck lace linen warp. #Weaving #handweaving

Most of it is a Glimakra standard (47” wide) but I took off the original 12s countermarche lamms and treadles and the original shafts and swapped them for the 24S Toika dobby unit. Still countermarche, but with a single pedal like a sewing machine.

A loom with natural-gray linen cloth in progress, viewed from a fingers-width about the breast beam. The cloth has wide zigzags of huck lace on a plain weave ground.

A wider shot of the same cloth with the beater and modified end feed shuttle in the background.

Looking down on the cloth, beater, and first few of the loom’s shafts from above. The warp and developing cloth are linen-gray, the wooden parts of the loom are honey-colored, and the Texsolv heddles on the shafts are brilliant white.

Another installment of a profile draft interpreted in huck lace/linen. #weaving #handweaving

The thing with floating selvedges is to always add twist to them with the shuttle. If your FS yarns are S twisted (which is pretty likely if they are commercial plied yarns), then you go over the FS when the shuttle travels from left to right, and under the FS on the way back. Clockwise twist.

An elevated view down onto a loom showing a linen cloth with a hexagonal/honeycomb (in the bee sense, not the weaving sense) pattern in huck lace. An end feed shuttle with linen weft sits atop the hanging beater crossing the middle of the picture. The right side of the image is many wooden shaft bars revealing the threading pattern (18 blocks of huck in a straight draw) where most of the ends are on shafts 1 and 2 close to the front the loom, and the others are in pairs from 3-20. Not all the shafts are in frame (including the final four shafts - it is a 24 shaft loom).

Some Saturday morning #weaving with more linen huck. This uses handweaving.net draft 7783 (originally recorded by Ralph Griswold) as a profile draft. #handweaving

Definitely the Weaving feed is behaving very strangely. Not updating, and then getting some but not all the timely posts.

A loom with an unbleached linen warp. The cloth in this view has small areas of huck lace on mostly plain weave as a ground. The huck spots get larger every three inches (really every 90 picks, but let’s assume I am doing a good job beating to square at 30min/30/epi). The arrangement of the spots is a 9-end satin with move number 5.

A similar view of the loom from further along in the weaving. In the extreme foreground, the areas of huck lace are 8 units wide (40 ends) x 2units tall (10 picks) separated by 100 ends of plain weave. Nearer the fell (the emerging edge of the cloth above the middle of the image), the huck areas have merged so that the cloth appears to be a huck ground with horizontal rectangles of plain weave (about 20 ends wide x 10 picks high).

A view showing the woven cloth traveling through the loom from the working area (the top of the image, the wood is the breast beam that is closest to the working weaver. The cloth in the top view is all over plain weave and all over huck lace (but both are out of focus). The cloth then crosses the middle of the image and the gradient from plain weave spots to huck spots is visible. This is the opposite face of the cloth from what the weaver sees while weaving. On the right side of the image the cloth wraps over the knee beam and then down onto and around the cloth beam (a roller with a brake where the cloth gets stored until the warp is finished and cut off the loom). The least dense part of the gradient is visible on the cloth beam.

A “shaded satin” gradient interpreted in plain weave and huck lace, in 40/2 unbleached linen. #weaving #handweaving 🧶

Or else buy 11x17 paper and have the shop guillotine it for you into grain-short letter paper.

It’s working well so far. I figured the coating on the paperclip might be a good idea. Though it could be a terrible idea, who knows!

An end feed shuttle modified with a loop of red paper clip affixed midway along the side the shuttle. A linen yarn emerges from the shuttle then passes through the paperclip hoop. This is a tip I learned from Marg Coe when I asked her about a modified shuttle she’d posted somewhere, but I haven’t tried it until now.

Fine-ish linen is forcing me to compensate for the fundamental asymmetry of my preferred end-feed shuttles in order to get both selvedges (plain weave this time) to behave at the same time. #weaving #handweaving

Gradient along the warp! Well done - it looks fab.

Yikes

Missing photos?

Is it made from a bent piece of wood (or from a log with a branch) or is there a join?

A tabby cat is in loaf posture atop a loosely folded length of handwoven linen cloth on a wooden table. The hems are folded up and have yellow pins. The cat is visibly interested in something close to the camera.

The same cat after she has extended her right arm (with a white paw) to swipe at the interesting item (still offscreen).

The cloth without the cat, showing the lace texture and the flattened tubes at the selvedge. The linen is starting to show some sheen after mangling, but it could certainly get shinier.

The tubular double weave selvedges worked out fine - not as forgiving as with with elastic yarns, as expected - but I think I will re-sley denser for the next part of this warp. #weaving #handweaving

The Weaver’s Knot feed has been my backup fix for #weaving content. bsky.app/profile/did:...

The color pooling is really pretty. Good call for your handspun.

A linen warp getting cut off the loom after a few yards of weaving to get a sample for wet finishing. Two flat sticks are interleaved in the last couple of woven inches - these will be used to tie on and keep weaving.

Cut off the first bit to see how I feel about the sett and DW selvedges after wet finishing. #weaving #handweaving

A low angle view of a loom with a linen warp. A diamond pattern is just visible as different levels of opacity. A shuttle rests on top of the beater in the back of the frame.

A view of the laptop screen showing the pattern being woven. The pattern is shown in two tones of green and has various diamonds of huck lace warp and weft spots on a plain weave background. This is zoomed-out view on the Weavepoint loom control screen.

Huck diamonds in linen. #handweaving #weaving

An eight shaft table loom fitted with a TempoTreadle device to help ensure the correct levers are lowered and thus the correct shafts are raised. It is a perfectly nice table loom but there is a lot of picking up and putting down vs using your feet (and a dobby, tbh) on the big floor loom. It seems unlikely that I’ll throw any picks on the basement rescue loom today but who knows. This is more of the second sample warp for those green turned-Bateman samples. #handweaving #weaving

Apparently it is a two-loom day. Wowee the big loom is 10000000000x more ergonomic than the wee one.