Dewdrops spam + new weavings
Jul. 22nd, 2010 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzI've finished the two planned bands on my inkle loom! Believe it or not, but both of these were woven from the same yarn!
The trick with the inkle loom is that you wrap your yarn around and around and around. If you just use one kind of yarn, the yarn is used continuously over the pegs until you have the desired width.
The first band was just a test piece to get used to the loom, and because of the colour shift, the vertical stripes seem to bend to the side over the length. Then I set it up again with the same thread, but I spaced it so that whites were together on the loom by skipping pegs. The yarn shifted from grey to white, to grey, to black and back to grey. I just skipped pegs until the whites sort of matched up. The difference in dye lengths (not all whites were equally long) and tension caused a little shift.
The downside is that the band is a little boring, until it shifts colour:
(I'm sorry for the terrible photos. I might get some better ones by daylight tonight.)
It's still an interesting concept I wouldn't mind exploring further. I've used up all of this yarn, which is acrylic anyway so not too good for weaving. For a next band I would probably edge the colour shift in solid colours, leaving the center portion(s) for the colour shift, and having a steady border around it. If I can get my hands on it, it might also be fun to combine two colour-shifting yarns so that one end of the band is dark and the other end is light, while still using two distinctly different colours (so the solid masses are not so solid).
Another variety would be to use one half of the band one way, and the other half the other way while using the same yarn. It would be like the colour shifts are working against eachother or blending. (It's hard to explain, but trust me it would be cool!)
It's interesting to see what you can do with this kind of yarn on an inkle loom, in any case.
I still need a weaving icon and I might possibly look up a weaving community here on LJ.
But just because I love to show off my work, I'll repost to Dewdrops. It's a Dutch forum for artists (painters, weavers, knitters, photographers, costume builders, doll people, etc), and might be interesting for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anemoona, ikhier and others. You can find it at Dewdrops.nl. It can do with some new impulses and it's great to show your work to like-minded people.
ETA 18:08 - better pictures huzzah!
The trick with the inkle loom is that you wrap your yarn around and around and around. If you just use one kind of yarn, the yarn is used continuously over the pegs until you have the desired width.
The first band was just a test piece to get used to the loom, and because of the colour shift, the vertical stripes seem to bend to the side over the length. Then I set it up again with the same thread, but I spaced it so that whites were together on the loom by skipping pegs. The yarn shifted from grey to white, to grey, to black and back to grey. I just skipped pegs until the whites sort of matched up. The difference in dye lengths (not all whites were equally long) and tension caused a little shift.
The downside is that the band is a little boring, until it shifts colour:
(I'm sorry for the terrible photos. I might get some better ones by daylight tonight.)
It's still an interesting concept I wouldn't mind exploring further. I've used up all of this yarn, which is acrylic anyway so not too good for weaving. For a next band I would probably edge the colour shift in solid colours, leaving the center portion(s) for the colour shift, and having a steady border around it. If I can get my hands on it, it might also be fun to combine two colour-shifting yarns so that one end of the band is dark and the other end is light, while still using two distinctly different colours (so the solid masses are not so solid).
Another variety would be to use one half of the band one way, and the other half the other way while using the same yarn. It would be like the colour shifts are working against eachother or blending. (It's hard to explain, but trust me it would be cool!)
It's interesting to see what you can do with this kind of yarn on an inkle loom, in any case.
I still need a weaving icon and I might possibly look up a weaving community here on LJ.
But just because I love to show off my work, I'll repost to Dewdrops. It's a Dutch forum for artists (painters, weavers, knitters, photographers, costume builders, doll people, etc), and might be interesting for
anemoona, ikhier and others. You can find it at Dewdrops.nl. It can do with some new impulses and it's great to show your work to like-minded people.ETA 18:08 - better pictures huzzah!
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Date: 2010-07-22 07:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 09:13 am (UTC)Is there anything I can weave for you? It's nice to weave for people and make them happy with something pretty.
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Date: 2010-07-22 09:00 am (UTC)So, I don't need a Dutch one. ;-)
~Brenda~
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Date: 2010-07-22 09:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 09:17 am (UTC)I was wondering about the yarn you use to weave between the yarn on the loom. Does it show up or is it only on the inside of the band?
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Date: 2010-07-22 09:47 am (UTC)There are designs that use a 'skipped' or 'missing' hole technique in cardweaving. By not filling 2 out of 4 (or 3/6) holes, you will see the weft thread through the design there. It can be quite beautiful.