A blog about tablet weaving and how to design your own belts.
I am Swedish but living in Switzerland since 2002. I love reenactment and sewing with led me to tablet weaving.
I mainly draw my own designs in the Sulawesi style and I am happy to interact with you here about weaving or other textile arts.
I like to weave in silk, but I also feel limited with the colours I have (since it does cost a bit more). Well, I am slowly advancing on this one. A lot of see creatures and some horses.
It looks better in real life, since the yellow looks really golden, but on the photo it is somehow “flat”. I will add some of the new designs to the design page (and below).
After this one, I plan to take a summer brake. C U in September.
It took some time to complete, but now it is done. I like it, but not my favourite. Maybe it is a bit to complicated with all the colour changes going on. It is nearly hypnotising when you look at it.
Well, here it is:
The Beginning….and the end!
Since I been working on my “Summer” and “Spring” belts, I felt the urge to do an Autumn belt, and I have at least started.
I used 11 different shades of yellow, orange, brown and green. Sneak preview below…
Here is a sneak preview of the forest green belt that I am working on now. I took the opportunity to try some new variations of my leaf designs.
The belt I talked about in my last blog post is finally finished. I am happy with how the gradient turned out and I had quite some comments on the “fire” aspect. I like how the fire is flanked by “water” from the blue border.
I have also been drawing quite a few alternative designs lately. I could not weave them all, but at least some of them. I will add the weaving diagrams asap here on my page for 24 card designs.
Now to the pictures:
I have been playing with colour gradients more and more in my weaving projects and I wanted to add a post on the material I use to achieve them.
I recently posted on a belt I am currently weaving, where I use 6 shades of yellow/orange. I don’t like making any publicity, but I still want to mention that I get them from Weavers bazaar in the UK.
Here are the threads and the belt, side by side. I used red and brown as motif/design colour to add contrast. Threading below.
The belt below is also using a blue colour gradient. The photo of the treads are in a different light (or overexposed), but it is the ones I used to get this effect.
I started this weave last week and I do like the colors. A sneak preview below…
I will add more photos as I progress.
Today I finished off 2 things:
1) a small backpack made from scrap fabric and an old tablet woven belt (one of my first). I quite like it!!
2) then I tried to save my 54 cards weaving project by cutting out the brown tread (making it a 3 hole weave). But it still looks strange and not very nice. So after this piece I decided to cut it down and discard the rest of the weave. Well here it is:
I made this Viking style bag. It the outside is blue wool and the inside red/purple linen. I used an old belt I have woven for the strap and a piece for decoration. I used some wood from my garden for the bag handles. I like how it turned out.
And then I have experimented with a wider than usual weaving. However it did not turn out well. The first part is below.
It makes me think of when I was a kid and old 3D movies showed on TV. I didn’t have the red and green glasses, so the films looked a bit like the weave below…
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