{"id":4009,"date":"2012-08-17T15:56:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T20:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2012-08-17T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T20:56:31","slug":"weaving-with-silk-and-cotton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2012\/08\/weaving-with-silk-and-cotton\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving with Silk…and Cotton"},"content":{"rendered":"

After warping up the Varpa and getting everything all tied up correctly, I decided I’d change the treadling for each of the three handwoven silk scarves, as well as the weft color. <\/p>\n

For the burgundy scarf<\/a> I used ‘tromp as writ’ — meaning I danced across the treadles in exact same pattern as I’d threaded the harnesses. \"snowflakes<\/a><\/p>\n

For the next one I decided to treadle basically a straight and point twill, eliminating the advancing twill sections.
\n\"snowflake<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s what it looked on the loom like with a Pacific Blue weft.
\n\"blue<\/a><\/p>\n

That one was a bit harsh for me, I think because of the combination of the sharp angles in the weaving pattern and the dramatic difference in the warp and weft colors. So for the third I softened everything up. I treadled only the advancing twill with just a small point between each pattern.
\n\"snowflake<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I used a light coffee weft, which also softened the look. Again, here it is on the loom.
\n\"brown<\/a><\/p>\n

These scarves were not quick to weave. I had to get used to treadling the Varpa, and had to pay attention to 360 threads to make sure I wasn’t making weaving errors. After that, I really needed to get a quick, easy warp onto the counterbalance loom so I could feel reasonably productive in preparation for the upcoming show. So I decided on bookmarks. I threaded in a rosepath pattern, treadled in a variety of patterns, and got 32 booksmarks woven.
\n\"August<\/a>
\nThat made me feel good.<\/p>\n

So now I’ve wound a warp of 170 ends of natural 8\/2 tencel and have beamed it on the counterbalance. (By the way, I’m a complete warping valet<\/a> convert.) I’m going to thread in a modified Ms & Ws pattern treadle in a variety of ways, and use a different weft color for each of the four scarves. Gotta keep moving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After warping up the Varpa and getting everything all tied up correctly, I decided I’d change the treadling for each of the three handwoven silk scarves, as well as the weft color. <\/p>\n

For the burgundy scarf I used ‘tromp as writ’ — meaning I danced across the treadles in exact same pattern as I’d […]<\/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":[530,32,227,528,381,559],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-counterbalance-loom","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-rayon","tag-silk","tag-varpapuu","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","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=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}