{"id":4779,"date":"2013-09-08T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2013-09-05T19:59:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T00:59:56","slug":"new-weaving-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/09\/new-weaving-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"New weaving technique"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love learning new things and using new-to-me techniques. It was well over two years ago that I read the Dust Bunnies blog<\/a> when Ngaire used a clasped weft technique to create a to-die-for scarf. Never heard of the technique, couldn’t imagine how it worked, so let it go. <\/p>\n

More than a year later I tried some clasped weft with the little pickup pieces<\/a> I did on my rigid heddle. Never having seen it done I no doubt did it the hardest way possible.<\/p>\n

Then when I took Su Butler’s pickup class this spring she showed us how to do clasped weft pretty easily with one shuttle and a cone of yarn on the floor.<\/p>\n

All this is leading to my latest weaving. <\/p>\n

I wanted to do some more color blending, this time with rayon chenille. I wound the warp and got it on the loom (sigh). For the first scarf I used a solid red weft – the same as one end of the warp. <\/p>\n

(Note: for these scarves I have purposely not shown you the scarves in all their drapey yumminess. I want you to see the color, not the softness or sheen.)
\n\"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

I wasn’t crazy about the look of the dark red yarn on the gold or cream warp. This wasn’t what I had in mind.<\/p>\n

How would I solve the problem? A solid cream weft might look nice, but it’d totally wash out the darker colors.<\/p>\n

I decided this was the perfect opportunity to use clasped weft! Red yarn in the shuttle, cream yarn on the floor. I’m really happy with the results.<\/p>\n

\"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

I thought I’d use a solid orange weft for the third scarf on this warp. I wound a bobbin and set off weaving. After about an inch I decided to go another way and unwove that inch. Instead, I wove just over 3″ with each of the 4 colors of yarn I’d used in the warp. I’m happy with this one, too.<\/p>\n

\"handwoven<\/a><\/p>\n

The last one happens to be the favorite of my friend Margaret. The clasped weft is mine, but I can’t be sure if it’s because of the look or because I’m proud of my use of the new-to-me technique.<\/p>\n

Next I want to try using clasped weft in something a bit more free flowing than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love learning new things and using new-to-me techniques. It was well over two years ago that I read the Dust Bunnies blog when Ngaire used a clasped weft technique to create a to-die-for scarf. Never heard of the technique, couldn’t imagine how it worked, so let it go. <\/p>\n

More than a year later […]<\/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":[567,227,249],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-clasped-weft","tag-handwoven-scarves","tag-rayon-chenille","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779","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=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4784,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions\/4784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}