{"id":5013,"date":"2014-01-11T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2014-01-11T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T22:02:11","slug":"twill-clasped-weft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2014\/01\/twill-clasped-weft\/","title":{"rendered":"Twill Clasped Weft"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally got some decent pictures of that cayenne baby wrap. Natural light is what it’s all about, for sure, especially with some colors and designs.<\/p>\n

Here’s the wrap, showing both sides of it.
\n\"top<\/a><\/p>\n

Again, I wove a different design on the ends. I’m less enthusiastic about these than I was about the zig zags on the green diamonds, but they’re okay.
\n\"end<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Moving on, I mentioned that I wove two clasped weft scarves with a natural ecru baby alpaca weft. After I got the loom warped and wove a bit to look at things, I decided I liked the look of straight twill with the alpaca instead of tabby like the rayon chenille. <\/p>\n

For the first scarf I paired the ecru with a periwinkle alpaca-silk weft, and clasped the weft at random points across the width of the scarf.<\/p>\n

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

Here’s a close up of it.
\n\"close<\/a><\/p>\n

I decided to actually braid the fringes of this scarf instead of my usual double twisting.
\n\"alpaca<\/a><\/p>\n

After I’d woven this scarf I decided that I’d do another variation. This time I used a variegated unmercerized cotton. Using a point treadling, I created what I thought of as hills but my friend saw as trees. Either way, I’m happy with this scarf, too.
\n\"alpaca<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a close up of that one.
\n\"alpaca<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m off to those 8 harness silk shawls on the Macomber now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally got some decent pictures of that cayenne baby wrap. Natural light is what it’s all about, for sure, especially with some colors and designs.<\/p>\n

Here’s the wrap, showing both sides of it. <\/p>\n

Again, I wove a different design on the ends. I’m less enthusiastic about these than I was about the zig […]<\/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":[226,567,227],"class_list":["post-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-alpaca","tag-clasped-weft","tag-handwoven-scarves","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","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=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5023,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}