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<\/a><\/p>\nI wove them in the bottom-up order of the photo. So first is a navy 60\/2 silk, woven in tabby. Here’s a beauty shot from the front.<\/p>\n
And from the back, so you can get a better sense of its weightlessness.<\/p>\n Then I used a sage green tramm silk. Tramm is a very loosely spun yarn, often used for embroidery, and is very fine. I used 3 strands at once to approximate a 60\/2 silk grist. <\/p>\n If the navy was weightless, I can’t think of a good word for this one. SOOO soft and lovely.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, that very loveliness is a drawback. I sett this yarn at 24 ends per inch, which I have done with this yarn with much success in the past. And since tabby is usually sett more loosely than twill, if anything I was concerned that the fabric would be a bit stiffer than I wanted. Well. This tramm silk is so fine that the finished cloth is not as stable as it needs to be. Here’s an example of what happens with an errant push of a finger.<\/p>\n The threads shift. Easily. Far too easily. So I won’t be selling this shawl.<\/p>\n Last up, I used 20\/2 silk in a twilight blue, using a turned twill tie up and treadling. I followed the same ‘pattern’ as the threading. So for example if my threading pattern was 40A, 24B, 8A, 12B…that’s how I treadled, too. While I like the ‘randomness,’ this piece is way too busy for me.<\/p>\n Usually as I am weaving my brain is working on what comes next. But this time I just didn’t know. I thought I needed a bit of a break from towels, but what would I weave? No answer came, so I let that just be for a few days. Since it takes time to twist all that fringe on those shawls, and a lot more than usual as I beaded the fringe on the 2 tabby-weave pieces, I had plenty of time to think-while-not-thinking. <\/p>\n And my brain told me I needed to do another paint 2 warps piece. It kept saying Sunrise\/Sunset. So I went through my stash, picked some mercerized cotton (since I can’t use that for towels), and measured out warp lengths.<\/p>\n (Side note: this wasn’t without problems. I didn’t have enough of the oddly-sized 8\/3 cotton I wanted to use so planned to mix it with some 5\/2 as they were a similar grist. But as I was measuring out the 5\/2 I said, ‘nope.’ The yarn smelled funky. Why did I continue measuring out the whole thing before I made this decision? Who knows, but I did, even though I’ve not been successful at getting rid of that smell in the past. But since the warp was measured and chained, I decided what the heck, nothing to lose. So I washed it with very hot water, Dawn dish soap and a bit of white vinegar, then draped it over my fence. For a few days. And a few rains. When I re-chained it and brought it in I can’t detect a smell. But I put it in a bag by itself. If there’s still no smell in a few days or weeks, I’ll use it. Oh yeah…as it turns out, good thing I couldn’t use it right away as it’s actually 3\/2, not 5\/2, so is quite a bit heavier than my 8\/3. Sometimes life works out as it is supposed to.)<\/p>\n Although without any additional yarn the piece would be narrower than I’d planned, but I couldn’t find any other yarn in my stash that I wanted to use with it, so I went down to the basement and dyed the 2 warps I made. Here’s what I ended up with.<\/p>\n Kind of shouts at you, eh? While I was a bit apprehensive that it would all be too bright, I fell totally in love while I was beaming these warps. I hope the weaving turns out well.<\/p>\n Unrelated, I picked my first pink brandywine tomato. Isn’t she a beauty?<\/p>\n I made my first-of-the-season tomato salad. SO YUMMY!!<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n