May 22, 2012 after jennifer moores advanced doubleweave workshop i was inspired to make a double width double weave herringbone twill blanket. My next project is to work towards weaving a similar type of shawl. If the cloth is reversible, that is, either side of the cloth can be considered the right side, then both sides of the cloth may be interchanged to form designs in a jacquard construction. As i was planning to put on a straight 24 threading i worked out a similar pattern originally from carol strickler in the liftplan of my weaving software pixeloom. On my treadle loom i can weave up to 4 blocks of plain weave as well as net posts about double weave written by evasweaving double weave table runner, pearl cotton, 2014, eva stossel 16s see more. There are going to be several stages to this, the first being to determine a weave. Double weave to enlarge by two your fabric width tubular fabric. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. I spent about almost a year putting everything i knew about rigid heddle weaving in plain weave in the book. Discover jennifers new double rainbow system of working with a rotation of six colors on 4 and 8 shafts. Dec 11, 20 how to tie onto a doubleweave twill warp without going crazy. She will guide you through the beginning stages of weaving, from planning and designing, to the final stages, when the beautiful piece of cloth is ready to take off the loom. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the weavers studio.
Double weave part 1 how to warp a second heddle kromski. A weaving that is 100 cm wide will therefore contain 2400 threads in the warp. Hochdorf band c, a fragment, is threaded sszzsszz and shows a simple diamondshaped meander pattern in double weave combined with continuous forward turning knudsen, 5559. Doubleweave wal warping tips yarnworker knowhow for the. Network drafting for double weave university of arizona. Finish your work more effectively while exploring one of the most intriguing weave structuresand so much more. Our two presets, saved in the folder dwex found on the cd in both the chapter 8 folder and the master weave presets folder, under double weaves, are dwex101a and dwex101b, and look like figures 816 and 817 on the next page. Much good information can be extracted from this monograph. These are just two things on my mind besides trying to weave the sewing thread warp and the wavy wefts warp. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these.
As a designer, marshall takes a contemporary approach to traditional designs. Fun with four color doubleweave colorado weavers day 2016. Aug 09, 2010 she walks us through each type of double weave such as two separate layers, layers joined on one edge, tubes joined on both ends, double weave pick up my favorite, quilting, and so much more. Interweave is one of the nations largest art and craft media entities with businesses in magazine and book publishing, interactive and social media, television and video programming, directories, and events for craft enthusiasts. A reference guide for double weave university of arizona. See more ideas about hand weaving, weaving textiles and weaving patterns. I planned to weave a ruana for the show coming up and i based the measurements on the ruana that my daughter wove way back when she was 11 years old. And since doubleweave showcases color and pattern in unique ways, you will learn how to use these to great effect in your cloth designs. And how do you double thread an odd number of warp ends. See more ideas about weaving, loom weaving and weaving projects. I have used this technique to weave large queen size blankets. Loom weaving hand weaving weaving projects weaving techniques happy. Youll find 14 projects for both 4 and 8 shafts that will help you delve into the design possibilities of deflected double weave.
In this workshop participants will weave a sampler that explores weaving two independent layers of cloth, doublewidth cloth, tubular weaving, colorandweave effects, pique, quilting and doubleweave pickup. The weavers companion the companion series by ligon, linda. Discover the full potential of the rigidheddle loom, for. To weave a tube, you change the order to be top layer bottom layer top layer bottom layer and your weft will join both edges. I had just published my book loom controlled double weave and thought that i understood double weave rather well. Then weavers issue 17 has several articles on double weave color and design. Double weave has many ramifications and many of them are covered here.
The draft, as written, would make a piece that was about 12 inches wide, rather than 6 inches as the written directions indicate. After this, the first sampler on four shafts is covered in detail, including the usual combinations of layers, tubes and double width cloth. The projects include color gamp napkins, a double weave scarf in a 4 and 6 shaft version, 4 shaft scarves using 3 and 4 color effects, clasping, vest fabric in doubleweave and lightweight huck yardage. Review this amazing book shows you how to get the very best from your weaving loom.
I could have loosened up my weaving a bit and the scarf would have been lighter as a result. Jennifer moore, an accomplished doubleweaver based in santa fe, new mexico, is widely known for her striking doubleweave wallpieces and elegant wearables. Kindle ebooks can be read on any device with the free kindle app. This tutorial is how to double weave to double your sett or weave a tube, create double wide cloth or weave two pieces of cloth at the same time. The yarn i use will be woven at 24 threadscm as it is a double weave with a plain weave texture, 12 threads will show on the surface, the other 12 on the back side. Buy weavers companion companion interweave spi by linda ligon isbn.
This means your weft joins the two layers together on just one side. Warped weavers favorite books bonnie kay custom woven interiors. If you seriously want to learn double weave, this book is a must have. Ive mentioned my fiber optics weaving project and the work on the blog and web site. My starting point was the article by linda ligon in the 1999 may june edition of handwoven.
Finish your work more effectively while exploring one of the most intriguing weave structures. This is my first time hosting a weavealong, so ill be learning right along with you. I highly recommend it to weavers from beginners to advanced. Being the concluding episode of my small test of double wide fabric weaving. Loomcontrolled doubleweave is explored in depth in this handbook of outofprint articles from textile innovators weavers and prairie wool companion. If you want to learn to double weave, this is the book. For weavers whose eyes are bigger than their looms and for all lovers of doubleweave, this electronic book is more than a collection of ten great projects from the first twenty years of handwoven. Th e two warp colors weave on both sides, but only one weft color weaves on the front, with the other color on the back. Doubleweave is the art of weaving two layers of cloth at the same time. The patterns in the nontwill double face area are horizontal to the weave, i.
Deflected doubleweave ebook from handwoven halcyon yarn. As a new weaver, you might wonder what the next steps are to grow your skills. As usual, my answer was make a paper weaving it is a very good method. The joy of handweaving kindle edition by tod, osma. The weaver s studio doubleweave download pdfepub ebook. She translated this into a 4 shaft, 4 color doubleweave pattern. Experience the magic of handweaving sigrid piroch is an experienced weaver who leads readers on a journey through the world of cloth. With traditional patterns from around the world, bands, and fabrics woven on two double heddles, the weavers idea book brings together a variety of ways to create exquisite cloth.
Here are complete directions for weaving ten colorful table runners in a wide range of patterns in doubleweave, warp rep, log cabin, laces, and more. Warped weavers favorite books annarborfiberartsguild. New best of handwoven ebook top ten table runners on four shafts. With double treadling you can weave this on a 4 shaft direct tieup loom. Double weave with differential shrinkage at the contemporary doubleweave workshop i decide that i wanted to try some form of combination of double weave and differential shrinkage. Some things i played with on this loom were double weave weaving double width. In this beautifully photographed volume, she provides insight into her own design process and gives tips for translating. Complete instructions for making a continuous warp and for the double faced weave, large graphs with a helpful tablet count field, front and back of all designs shown full size, tips for avoiding and correcting mistakes and for graphing your own designs.
Saugas, mass usa adaharness r b5 floor loom for sale. I was also a bit heavy handed with beating the yarn. A reference guide for double weave there are a number of challenges for the weaver who encounters the technique called double weave for the first time. Double weave part 1 how to warp a second heddle there has been a lot of talk lately about weaving with a second heddle. Half of the shafts of your loom weave the top layer of the warp and the other shafts weave the bottom layer, creating a folded edge on one side of the warp. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading weaving iridescence. The fact that two or more cloth layers can be woven at the same time and that the weaver sees only the top layer while weaving is a bit unnerving.
In this post we will explain how to set up to weave a double weave project. Download the weaver s studio doubleweave ebook for free in pdf and epub format. Posted in uncategorized, tagged doubleweave, doubleweave doublewidth blanket, jennifer moore, twill, tying on to existing warp, warping tricks on june 3, 2012 leave a comment. It is possible to weave a project twice the width of your loom by using a double weave technique. Detailed instructions and gorgeous photographs illustrate how to design and weave 30 different projects including placemats, coverlets, jackets, bags, wall hangings, and throws using four to sixteenshaft looms. In this beautiful book by pattie graver, former managing editor of handwoven magazine, youll be explore a variety of weave structures and concepts in depth and detail including twill, colorand weave, overshot, summer. This page includes pdfs of six alphabets in my book please weave a message, a hebrew alephbet for 34 tablets, a collection inspired by african designs from my book double faced tablet weaving. Yet another is making an art book or a portfolio in book form. You will, of course, double both the warp and weft sett, which should not be.
The weavers companion the companion series kindle edition. Theory and practice by brostoff, laya and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Doubleweave is the art of weaving two layers of cloth at the same time, one above the other on the loom, creating beauti. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the joy of handweaving. Complete instructions for making a continuous warp and for the doublefaced weave, large graphs with a helpful tablet count field, front and back of all designs shown fullsize, tips for avoiding and correcting mistakes and for graphing your own designs. Weavecast is an internetbased talk radio show about handweaving. Next steps in weaving has the answers youre looking for. A workshop program step by step through double weave. Double weave is a family of weave styles in which the face of the fabric is effectively disengaged from the back except at specific connecting interlacings, yet with each side maintaining sufficient individual structural integrity to be identified as distinct fabrics in themselves. A workshop program step by step through double weave with 4 and 8 shaft looms this presentation is made so that individuals or groups can carry out the program that i have been presenting as three day workshops in double weave at various guilds and conferences during the last 1015 years. In the next step, the design has to be translated into a weaving draft. If your loom doesnt have a double heddle kit you can still do this, so dont worry. Doubleweave by jennifer moore available from rakuten kobo.
You can weave pieces two or three times the width of the loom. Color play for the handweaver kindle edition by irwin, bobbie. Aug 30, 2017 one great thing about double weave on the asil is that you can just rock it back and check underneath to see if you have missed any threads. Throughout the book, you will find a wealth of inspiration with many examples of finished cloth and projects, from wall. This ebook, and all of halcyon yarns ebooks, are printed in full color on acidfree coated stock, saddlestitched and ready for immediate browsing and convenient posting next to your loom. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Our publisher linda ligon posted a photograph of herself on facebook earlier this week from her current travels in china. I have an 8shaft baby wolf loom 25 weaving width and id like to weave a. Fishing line in the selvedges there have been several informative posts on weavetech about reinforcing the selvedges with fishing line which is removed when the weaving is completed. The layers palette will look like figure 815 on the next page. Read the weaver s studio doubleweave online, read in mobile or kindle.
Deflected double weave new technique series handwoven ebook printed copy. Doubleweave author jennifer moore speaks with linda ligon. It also includes the theory you need to design your own fabrics twice as wide as the weaving width of your loom. Weave widths double and more than the size of your loom with no seams. The book is arranged by structure or type of weave, from variations on plain weave to doubleweave.
Techniques are included for weaving double sided designs, selflined bags, tubular projects and for multiplying the width you can weave on your loom. Of the many ways of designing and weaving double weave, my favorite is loomcontrolled, patterned double weave. So, if you want to create a double width fabric you use one shuttle and weave top layer top layer bottom layer bottom layer. This book is not aimed at complete beginners, a basic knowledge of weaving terms and fourshaft weaving on a table loom is assumed, also the ability to interpret threading and tieup diagrams. Weaving a doublewidth doubleweave herringbone twill blanket. This loom has a 24 weaving width with 6 harnesses and was built 52267. Learn to weave triple width fabric with a contrasting structure in the center panel. I have always loved herringbone, and although i had no particular use for a wool blanket, i thought i could use some of the wool yarn in my stash.
The weaver s studio doubleweave also available in format docx and mobi. And the pictures for this project are hard to see because of the yarn colors chosen purple and dark blue. And for a bit of weaving whimsy, linda ligons shaggy bag will give you fun. Do you want to weave wider than your loom allows you to. The weaving effects covered include lace, tubular weave, pickup, color mixing, and more. On four to eight shafts by ursina arngrischott there there is a picture of a beautiful double weave shawl with what seems to be two layers of airy lace held together by almost invisible stitcher threads. Specialty techniques are shown for 4shaft and 8shaft looms. Discover the full potential of the rigidheddle loom, for beginners and beyond kindle edition by mitchell, syne. So, in my previous posts on double weave on a rigid heddle loom ive talked about having two pickup sticks in use and that you use one when weaving the lower layer cloth and the other when weaving the upper layer of cloth. This is my first time trying to do a double width project using double weave, and here i am tyring that, but also adding block weave by trying to use a summer and winter block structure. When i took the measurements of this piece i assumed that we had warped this using double weaveto come up with a double width fabric in the back and two separate layers for the fronts. I was worried that fingering weight yarn would end up looking gappy at 10 epi, but this scarf is a little unwieldy because of its weight. Sep 01, 2016 i decided to start with the throw from double your fun since there is a pattern included with the video and the video itself is geared toward weavers who have woven a few projects, but have yet to weave with two heddles.
In which i show my corrected lift plan for the pattern, i explain why the the top and bottom of the bottom layer are. Network drafting for double weave introduction at convergence 1992 in washington d. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Our tutor liz sketched out a design for me see the squared paper below and i. Each episode we interview weavers about their craft, share the latest news from the weaving world. Informative, but best work along with the video in short bursts how to double weave. Download experience the magic of handweaving sigrid piroch is an experienced weaver who leads readers on a journey through the world of cloth. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading inventive weaving on a little loom. The most simple way is double weave with 2 rigid heddles and one pick up stick, so we will. Rigidheddle weaving transcript transcribed by laura fry, 24 april, 2009 on april 24, 2009. Apr 03, 2015 this is my first time trying to do a double width project using double weave, and here i am tyring that, but also adding block weave by trying to use a summer and winter block structure. Mar 29, 2020 you can weave a project twice the width of your loom by using a double weave technique.
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