{"id":1606,"date":"2010-09-06T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T20:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2011-01-25T16:53:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T21:53:27","slug":"handwoven-placemats-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/09\/handwoven-placemats-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwoven Placemats"},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn’t my first set of placemats, but it is my first use of a supplementary warp. I had to use my Macomber to achieve this, and although a fine loom, I still haven’t really gotten used to it. I don’t know that it will ever find the place in my heart that my little four-harness counterbalance has. <\/p>\n

But that’s not what this post is about. It’s about placemats.
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The majority of these handwoven placemats is a 5\/2 pearl cotton in natural; the supplementary warp is a chocolate brown 3\/2 pearl cotton. I sett them at 18 ends per inch, believing that would give me a nice, tight weave. <\/p>\n

I know, I know, I should sample. But I don’t do it. My home ec teacher told me I should baste prior to machine stitching, and I don’t do that, either.<\/p>\n

Beating with what I consider to be an average beat, I was not happy with the placemats — too loose, particularly the supplementary warp. That’s the one on the left. But I didn’t know that till I had a full placemat done. And by then I didn’t want to either (a) unweave an entire placemat and beat it more firmly, or (b) lose an entire placemat. I plan my warps pretty carefully and knew I’d warped enough for 8 placemats, not 9. So I continued with that set of 4.<\/p>\n

Now I considered…should I resley to 20 ends per inch before I wove the next set of 4? If I did, I’d lose a bunch of width that would affect my finished size. Not what I really wanted to do. So I opted to beat really hard on every pass of the shuttle. Not my favorite thing to do, but a reasonable solution.<\/p>\n

Then I decided I’d wet finish the first set of 4 in hot water in an attempt to tighten them up. It did tighten them up, but I still wasn’t completely satisfied – the floats in the supplementary warp are still too far apart. <\/p>\n

After a nice hard press, I’m okay with both sets. Here they are, rolled in sets of 4.
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\nI still like the tighter set better, and will definitely sett future placemats at 20 ends per inch. This is my version of sampling — deciding what I’ll do differently next time.<\/p>\n

Your turn: do you always do things “the right” way?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This isn’t my first set of placemats, but it is my first use of a supplementary warp. I had to use my Macomber to achieve this, and although a fine loom, I still haven’t really gotten used to it. I don’t know that it will ever find the place in my heart that my little […]<\/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":[530,304],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-towels-linens","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","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=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}