{"id":1406,"date":"2010-07-18T08:22:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T13:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2011-01-25T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T22:00:37","slug":"handwoven-on-a-rigid-heddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/07\/handwoven-on-a-rigid-heddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwoven on a Rigid Heddle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I do all my weaving at home on a floor loom (usually my delightful, handmade, 4-harness counterbalance), I really like to bring my LeClerc rigid heddle loom to shows to demonstrate the weaving process. Lots of people like to watch me weave, and when I’m doing a plain weave, I can get kids involved in the process, helping me to change the position of the heddle and beat the yarn.<\/p>\n

For the Roycroft<\/a> show in June, I had beamed an interesting heathery bamboo warp. Since it was a medium-weight yarn, it worked up pretty quickly. And because I had my wonderful sister with me (yes, it is the same one who tormented me<\/a> with those scary movies – she’s outgrown her evil phase), I could really focus on the weaving while she played the helpful sales associate role.
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\nThe first bamboo scarf was handwoven in a simple tabby weave, letting the colors provide all the interest. For the second scarf, I decided to try my hand at some hand-manipulated lace on the ends, so added three rows of leno. I must admit, it all looked a bit wonky while on the loom – not nice and even at all, and I was a bit worried. But lo and behold, the wet finishing process did its usual magic, and the end result is just swell. <\/p>\n

I’m currently thinking about what I’ll warp the loom with for the Elmwood show in August. I’d love to do something with some yarn I have that needs to be sett at 18EPI, but that’d be a real challenge on my loom, and not one I’m willing to try for the first time at a show, so I’ll have to choose something else, something that will be lovely sett at 12EPI.<\/p>\n

Your turn: have you woven on a rigid heddle loom? What do you like\/dislike about it?
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Although I do all my weaving at home on a floor loom (usually my delightful, handmade, 4-harness counterbalance), I really like to bring my LeClerc rigid heddle loom to shows to demonstrate the weaving process. Lots of people like to watch me weave, and when I’m doing a plain weave, I can get kids involved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[214,227,407],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-bamboo","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-rigid-heddle","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}