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Weaving
Projects & Articles
Projects on Five to Eight Shafts
The rich traditions and diversity of the
weaving community foster a range of special interests. The
following projects and articles are intended to address some
of those interests and to encourage new members to join us. A Note to Beginners (B)
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Brushed Mohair Cape (Zen Garden Palette)  (165 KB)
This cape is luxurious, elegant, and soft—both the warp and the weft are mohair. The mohair fabric was brushed while undertension on the loom. The trim is made from a purchased Pendleton wool jacquard fabric in a contrasting color. |
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Bumberet Vest Fabric (Retro Palette)
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The special features of this vest pattern are particularly suitable for Ruby Leslie’s unusual version of bumberet. One of the three treadling effects can be used for the body of thevest and another for the collar and cuffs.
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Canine Couture
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by Ruth Morrison
Ruth Morrison creates fabulous canine couture in Bedford cord. Weave the perfect jacket for your pup’s winter wear. This fabric would also make a great vest or pillow. Web-Exclusive Project
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Doubleweave Log Cabin Runner
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Windows of log cabin are framed by a separate plain-weave layer in this runner by Tracy Kaestner. Woven in weaver-friendly cottolin, this runner is washable and durable and perfect for table or dresser top. Web-Exclusive Project |
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Doubleweave Plus
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by Barbara Walker
This reversible runner combines the power of doubleweave with patterning from a supplementary warp. Web-Exclusive Project |
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by Sara Nordling
Glitzy fancy twill blouse fabric on four, eight, and sixteen shafts to go with Sara's Evening Star Jacket on page 48-50 of the March/April 2004 issue.
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Eyelash Fabric for Duster (Crayon Brights Palette) (162 KB)
Jane Ellis’s unusual eyelash weave would be perfect as the accent fabric in this long duster. The draft is a 4-shaft plain weave with weft floats that are cuton the loom to make colorful Crayon Bright eyelashes! |
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Gold Doubloons and Silver Pieces of Eight
by Rosalie Neilson
This is the 8-shaft version of the stunning scarf displayed on pages 70-71 of the Jan/Feb 2003 issue.
Low-Resolution Version (396 KB)
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Jewelry designer Giovanna Imperia shows you how to apply shibori, cloqué, and felting techniques to finely woven linen cloth for stunning handwoven cuffs. Web-Exclusive Project |
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San Diego Jacket (Retro Palette) (118 KB)
In this elegant 6-shaft fabric of merino wool and wool/silk, windowpanes of straight and zigzag twills are framed bylines of basket weave, which add texture to the fabric. |
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Scarves with Sea Silk Warp
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Discover Sea Silk, a beautiful yarn made from silk, seaweed, and lyocell. Diana Sanderson designed these scarves in this new ecofriendly yarn that weaves beautifully and is good for your skin!
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Summer and Winter Vest (Fall Harvest Palette) (145 KB)
In this fabric, a sequence of four colors alternateswith a background color in the warp. When the pattern weft floats on the back of the fabric, the warp colors show. When it floats on the face, the colors seem to disappear. Coordinating beads are prestrung on the tabby weft in selected places to look like small bubbles rising up in the columns of color. |
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Network Drafting: Turned Twills on Eight Shafts
by Alice Schlein
This article is the third in a three-part series on turned twills. Parts one and two were featured in the Jan/Feb 2001 issue (pages 46-49) and the Mar/Apr 2001 issue (pages 38-41) respectively.
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Waffle-Weave Vest (Crayon Brights Palette) (200 KB)
This vest fabric uses the Crayon Brights palette in an unusual variation of waffle weave. Instead of the usual waffle-weave cells, in this fabric several strands of a thick variegated weft make a ribbon-like textured stripein the weft direction. |
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