What this project will teach you:
- How to weave a wide warp
- How to achieve a soft beat
- How to work with double stranded weft
- How to twist the fringe in opposite directions
- How to achieve subtle shading throughout the cloth
Topics include:
- Setting up the loom and weaving
- Ball winding...
Topics include:
- Upper tie-up
- Lower tie-up
- Checking the shed
- Winding balls and quills
- Blanket weave demo — first blanket
- Fixing a threading mistake near the edge of the warp or with a double heddle
- Blanket stripe design — second blanket
- Weaving the second blanket and sample
- "Some...
What this project will teach you:
- How to plan your blanket project, including calculating the amount of yarn needed
- How to document the project, creating a project sheet for your binder
Topics include:
- What yarns will we use?
- What reed will we use?
- Describing the cloth
- Warp quantity...
What this project will teach you:
- An approach for improving the threading of a draft
- A review and comparison of multiple variations of twills
Topics include:
- Page 3 exercises
- What is this fabric going to look like? Deriving the drawdown
- Same warp, different variations
- Summary diagra...