Thursday, July 26, 2012

Creating New Weaving Patterns

We have been experimenting with new ways to thread our aviadura (a reed with string heddles). When we are preparing our loom to begin weaving, there are two very time-consuming parts. One is preparing the yarn by wrapping it around our warping wheel. The amount of time depends on the width of the fabric and whether there are stripes. And, if there are stripes, how many. The other challenging task is threading the string heddles. When we have learned one pattern of threading, we can obtain different weaving patterns depending on how we use our pedals. That is how we have changed the weave in our shawls. But now we have been experimenting now with different ways to string our string heddles. What do you think?

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